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SUMMARY:Understanding the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems
  - Ed Gillen (Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Richard Booth
DESCRIPTION:\nYoung open clusters are fruitful astrophysical laboratories 
 because their members possess a common age\, composition and distance. Com
 bining information from clusters at different ages offers a powerful tool 
 to understand the early evolution of stellar and planetary systems. Signif
 icant advances have been made in this area during recent years. I will beg
 in by presenting successful efforts to detect transiting planets in young 
 open clusters with Kepler/K2\, before highlighting some of the interesting
  serendipitous discoveries made during this work. I will then present the 
 Next Generation Transit Survey (NGTS)\, highlight some of our recently-dis
 covered planets\, and introduce our new clusters program\, which is alread
 y providing novel insight into early stellar and planetary system evolutio
 n.
LOCATION:Martin Ryle Seminar Room\, Kavli Institute
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