Date/Time: Monday, October 12, 2020 - 19:00 to 20:00
Venue: Online
Speaker: Dr. Sukrit Ranjan, CIERA Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, USA, M.I.T. SCOL Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, USA
Abstract: The interaction of UV radiation with molecules (photochemistry) plays a key role in the surface-atmosphere system of rocky planets. In this talk, I will explore how photochemistry controls the chemical context in which life arose on Earth, and affects the molecular signposts with which...
Speaker: Dr. Jayesh Goyal, Carl Sagan Institute, Department of Astronomy Cornell University
For centuries, humans have wondered about the existence of planets around stars, other than our own Sun. However, for the first time in human history we have the capability not just to...
Speaker: Dr. Shantanu Keshav, University of Montpellier 2, France
Generation of melts (liquids/magmas) and fluids (e.g., gas), and their interactions in the Earth’s interior, are perhaps some of the most important of all planetary phenomena. Such...