Prof Chris Lintott Seminar 12 June 7:30pm

[Orlon Petterson]

Kia ora

 

This is to advise that we have a short notice special seminar with Prof Chris Lintott on Monday 12 June 2023 at 7:30pm on “Weird Worlds: Finding Planets from your sofa”.

It will be held in the Beatrice Tinsley 111 Lecture room, Beatrice Tinsley building main entrance is east of the Ernest Rutherford building, ground floor.

Prof Christ Lintott is here as part of the RASNZ marking its centenary and RAS London celebrates its bicentenary. To mark the occasion, RAS will send Professor Chris Lintott from the University of Oxford to New Zealand as the RAS Centenary Lecturer.

Chris is well known for his appearances on the BBC’s Sky at Night (successor to Patrick Moore) and the Zooniverse citizen science project. You can read more about him at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Lintott.

 

• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Orlon Petterson.
• This topic was modified 2 years, 7 months ago by Orlon Petterson.

[Simon Lewis]

Hunting for exoplanets – planets around stars other than the Sun – is a booming astronomical industry. Results from facilities all over the world, particularly from NASA’s Kepler satellite, have shown that planets are common, and given new insight into the formation of our own Solar System. The latest planet hunting satellite, TESS, provides a chance to find planets around brighter stars In this talk, Chris Lintott (University of Oxford, and presenter on BBC Sky at Night) will talk about what we know and don’t know about how planets form and will explain how you might find a planet of your own using only a laptop. There will be at least one photo of penguins, and some speculation about alien megastructures.

[Preetha Sreedharan]

Hello, do we have to register to attend the talk? And if yes, i would like to register to attend please 😀

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[Orlon Petterson]

No registration required for this seminar.

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