Thursday, February 15, 2018
2:00 PM -
3:00 PM
East Bridge 201 (Richard P. Feynman Lecture Hall)
Special TAPIR Seminar
Series: TAPIR Seminar Series
Vorticies from low-mass planet formation
James Owen,
NASA Hubble Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Study,
Speaker's Bio:
I am currently a NASA Hubble fellow working at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Prior to moving to Princeton, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. I completed my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, investigating protoplanetary disc evolution and dispersal under the supervision of Professor Cathie Clarke. I undertook my undergraduate studies at the Univeristy of Cambridge, Churchill College. My research interests are within the fields of star and planet formation, with emphasis on the radiative and hydrodynamic pheomena involved. I am currently involved in several projects with various groups exploring the various effects high energy radiation will have on the circumstellar enviornment.
I am currently a NASA Hubble fellow working at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Prior to moving to Princeton, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. I completed my PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, investigating protoplanetary disc evolution and dispersal under the supervision of Professor Cathie Clarke. I undertook my undergraduate studies at the Univeristy of Cambridge, Churchill College. My research interests are within the fields of star and planet formation, with emphasis on the radiative and hydrodynamic pheomena involved. I am currently involved in several projects with various groups exploring the various effects high energy radiation will have on the circumstellar enviornment.
I will discuss some of the recently imaged asymmetric protoplanetary discs discovered by ALMA. I will describe how these might be large scale vorticies and present a model for how they arise as a direct consequence of planet formation. [Please note: unusual venue - 201 E. Bridge]
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