New Discoveries in the Goldilocks Zone
Guest Speaker
Thursday, 24th August 2023 (19:45 - 22:00)
Venue: swmcmeet
In recent years, several notable discoveries have been made in the Goldilocks zone, the habitable region around stars where liquid water can exist on a planet's surface. The Kepler mission identified thousands of exoplanets, including the TRAPPIST-1 system with seven Earth-sized planets and the Proxima Centauri system with a potentially habitable planet called Proxima b. While these findings have increased our understanding of potentially habitable worlds beyond our solar system, further research is needed to determine if these planets harbor life.
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Speaker: Dr. Susan Cartwright
Dr Susan Cartwright graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in Astronomy and Natural Philosophy (Physics, to most people - but if Natural Philosophy was good enough for Newton it was good enough for Glasgow!).
She then did a PhD in particle physics, also at Glasgow, and worked in Hamburg, Germany and San Francisco before arriving in Sheffield in 1989. She is currently working on neutrino oscillations with the T2K experiment in Japan(which, incidentally, doesn't have any evidence that neutrinos travel faster than light - though it does have evidence that accelerators don't much like earthquakes).
