Planets under construction: how to study a million year process
RASC Regular Meeting, Monday April 12, 2021
7:00 PM, Meet and Greet
7:30 PM, Meeting begins, including guest talk, News from Space, AstroImaging Corner, and other RASC news.
FREE and open to the public.
Guest Speaker:
Dr. Nienke van der Marel
Planets under construction: how to study a million year process
Nienke van der Marel is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at University of Victoria since December 2019, working on planet formation using the revolutionary ALMA telescope. Before this she worked for 2 years as NRC postdoctoral fellow at the Herzberg institute for Astronomy, and 2 years as Parrent fellow at the University of Hawaii. She received her PhD cum laude in 2015 at Leiden University in the Netherlands, where she originates. In September 2021 she will join Leiden University again as assistant professor. Nienke is also the founder and host of Nerd Nite Victoria, with public science talks in an informal setting every third Wednesday of the month since August 2018.
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