Uncovering how solar systems are formed

Guest Speaker

Thursday, 30th May 2024 (19:45 - 22:00)

Venue: meetingroom

Alison will talk about how astronomers combine observations from state-of-the-art telescope facilities, computer models, space missions and laboratory experiments to study how exactly planets form from sparse clouds of dusty gas.

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Speaker: Dr. Alison Young

Dr Young uses hydrodynamical, radiative transfer and chemical models to develop our understanding of how stars and planets form and of protoplanetary disc structures. She completed her PhD exploring the observational characteristics of the first hydrostatic core in 2019 at the University of Exeter, UK and currently works at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, UK.