Starquakes and Exoplanets in the Milky Way | Conny Aerts

Conny Aerts (Universities of Leuven & Nijmegen)
KITP
Feb 18, 2015
'Starquakes and Exoplanets in the Milky Way' lecture given by Conny Aerts as a KITP Public Lecture.
Slides are here: online.kitp.ucs...
Asteroseismology -- the study of stellar interiors via -- "starquakes" -- has been around for a century, but it is now entering a new and exciting phase. Seismic measurements from thousands of stars allow us to listen in on a cosmic symphony, and also to probe their physics, their life, and, by implication, the fate of the exoplanets that may surround them. The recent revolution in our knowledge of stars and of exoplanetary systems, thanks to the space missions CoRoT and Kepler, will be highlighted. Dr Aerts will end by discussing how ongoing and future seismic studies will reveal the structure of our Milky Way galaxy, find the ages of its stars, and, perhaps soon, aid in the search for analogs of our planet Earth around other stars.
Conny Aerts, K.U. Leuven Conny Aerts is the Director of the Institute of Astronomy, Leuven University, Belgium and the Chair of Asteroseismology, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She received her Ph.D. from Leuven University in 1993, after bouncing around the international observatories located in the Chilean Atacama desert and the French Alps. Her curiosity about stars began in elementary school. At age 15, she knew she needed more mathematics to be an astronomer and took it upon herself to switch schools and endure 3-hour commutes to get it. Among her many honors, her contributions to asteroseismology were recognized by the King of Belgium when she received the "Belgian Nobel Prize" -- the first woman to receive this award in the "hard sciences."
Video can also be found here: online.kitp.ucs...

[@bothewolf3466]

If I was put off by someone within the first twelve minutes of their speaking and refused to listen to them thereafter, I'd probably never speak or listen to anyone ever. #Snowflake. Interesting talk about resonance within stars.

[@nuckable]

The jab at global warming & twice bringing up that nuclear fusion is impossible on earth within the first ~12 minutes have thoroughly convinced me not to continue watching this. It could be due to the speaker not being native speaker, but independent of that I believe sloppy language should always be rooted out by the speaker or otherwise not speak at all.

[@ianian8022]

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