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SUMMARY:Witnessing the Assembly of Planetary Systems - Richard Teague (SMA
  fellow\, Harvard)
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CONTACT:Dr Can Cui
DESCRIPTION:The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) has granted us the s
 harpest view of protoplanetary disks\, the planet formation environment\, 
 to date. These disks are reservoirs of planet-forming material and have be
 en found to host a stunning variety of substructure. Gaps\, rings and spir
 als are routinely observed in the distribution of large dust grains\, sugg
 estive of dynamical processing by an unseen population of recently formed 
 planets. I will demonstrate how through studies of the gas structure\, in 
 concert with the development of new data analysis techniques\, I have been
  able to detect the young planets responsible for the structure we have se
 en in the dust. I will show how we are now able to conduct a thorough chem
 ical inventory of the planet forming material\, and trace the delivery of 
 these materials to young planets during the accretion of their atmospheres
 . Finally\, I will highlight how the mapping of the disk’s dynamical str
 ucture is providing a unique opportunity to identify the hydrodynamical pr
 ocesses that are driving planet formation and influencing the global evolu
 tion of the protoplanetary disks. To conclude\, I will discuss the future 
 of these studies\, detailing how upcoming observational facilities and lar
 ge-scale numerical simulations will enable us to characterize the entire p
 lanet formation process\, a process that will provide essential context fo
 r the study of mature planets\, both those within our Solar System and tho
 se further afield.\n
LOCATION:ONLINE - Details to be sent by email
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