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SUMMARY:Planetary Systems: The Expanding Frontier - Professor Raymond Pier
 rehumbert\, Halley Professor of Physics\, Oxford
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CONTACT:Max Wong
DESCRIPTION:Join us in the Winstanley Lecture Theatre next Tuesday at 6:30
 pm for a talk by Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert\, the Halley Professor of
  Physics at Oxford. The talk will provide a brief introduction on the hist
 ory and future of the universe\, as well as new observations and theoretic
 al advances in planetary formation.\n\nAs always\, the talk is free and op
 en to all. Light refreshments will be provided before the talk.\n\nBrief b
 io of speaker: Professor Pierrehumbert is the Halley Professor of Physics 
 at the University of Oxford. His main research interests include the physi
 cs of climate on different planets\, as well as the impact of carbon dioxi
 de emissions and agriculture on the climate here on Earth. His research ha
 s also been used in multiple documentaries\, most notably Channel 4's Snow
 ball Earth. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and was the lead author on
  the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Cha
 nge as well as a co-author of the National Research Council on abrupt clim
 ate change. In addition\, he is a Fellow of the American Association for t
 he Advancement of Science\, and has received the Chevalier d'Ordre des Pal
 mes Academiqués and the Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on planetary s
 ystems.\n\nBrief abstract: In this lecture\, Prof. Pierrehumbert will prov
 ide an introduction to the grand sweep of new research in this area\, resu
 lting from birth of stars and their associated planets to how it all ends.
  The possible conditions for life to arise and diversify over the lifetime
  of a planetary system are a central focus of the subject. This lecture wi
 ll take you on an exploration through deepest time\, from the moment galax
 ies begin to form after the Big Bang to trillions of years in the future w
 hen the Universe will be a dilute soup of dim galaxies populated mostly by
  red dwarf stars. The lecture will discuss the latest insights gained from
  a new generation of telescopes that catch planetary systems at the moment
  of formation\, and to the theoretical advances that attempt to make sense
  of these observations.
LOCATION:The Winstanley Lecture Hall\, Trinity College\, Cambridge
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