About Event
Location
This colloquium is hosted by STScI and will be held as a fully virtual event.
Time
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST
Description
Planetary systems form in the disks of gas and dust that orbit young stars. In the past few years, very high angular resolution observations of disks in nearby star-forming regions have started to uncover some key signatures of the planet formation epoch. This talk will focus on what we are learning about the distribution of disk material on spatial scales of only a few astronomical units, largely based on state-of-the-art measurements with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and the corresponding implications for the assembly and early evolution of planetary systems.
Speaker: Sean Andrews (CFA Harvard University)
Notes
All 2020 Fall Colloquium virtual talks are held on Wednesdays at 3:00 PM.
Please direct questions or comments to contact above. The 2020-2021 committee members are: Karoline Gilbert (STScI co-chair), Ethan Vishniac (JHU co-chair), Graeme Addison (JHU), Martha Boyer (STScI), Joshua Peek (STScI), Kevin Schlaufman (JHU), and Raymond Simons (STScI).