| Thursday 25 April 2024 | |
| Events for day: Monday 08 May 2017 |
Recent Trends in String Theory and Related Topics PHYSICS Farmanieh Conference Hall ... 11:00 - 12:30 Weekly Seminar Exoplanetary Atmospheric detection with ground-based Transmission Spectroscopy School ASTRONOMY Transmission spectroscopy, which entails the detection of minute wavelength-dependent variations of the inferred planetary radius due to an optically thick atmosphere, provides us with a unique opportunity of detecting and characterizing atmospheres of exoplanets. This is essential to understanding the formation of these alien worlds and the evolutionary paths that they embark on. Ground-based observatories (VLT and Gemini for instance) have played a vital role, and will continue to do so, in complementing results from space-bound telescopes (HST, JWST). I will present recent results from ESO's FORS2 instrument at UT1 of the VLT. The ... 16:00 - 18:00 Biweekly Seminar On the truthmaking account of divine simplicity School PHILOSOPHY On the truthmaking account of divine simplicity ... |