Astro-Seminar: Matthew Battley - Establishing the exoplanet age-ladder

Matthew Battley is coming to the Physics Building on Wednesday 11 November to talk about young exoplanets. He's visiting from Queen Mary University of London, and his talk is titled Establishing the exoplanet age-ladder: new results in the detection and characterisation of young exoplanets.

Battley's work focuses on the young ones — exoplanets less than a billion years old. He argues that these are the key to understanding how planetary systems evolve into the more than 6,000 known today. They represent a crucial era when orbital architectures, bulk planetary properties and atmospheric composition haven't yet reached their mature states, so looking at them is like catching a system while it's still settling in. During the talk, he'll run through his group's multifaceted approach to detecting and characterising these young worlds and review where the field stands right now.

It's part of the Astrophysics seminar series at the University of Exeter, which runs every Wednesday at 13:30 during term time and is organised by Till Kaeufer, Vito Squicciarini and Nils de Vries. If you're into space and how planets actually form and change over time, this is exactly the kind of thing they're digging into.

The seminar is at 13:30 on Wednesday 11 November in the fourth floor interaction area of the Physics Building, Streatham Campus.