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CIERA Colloquium: Eugene Chiang: "Giant Planet Formation"

Tuesday, March 3, 2026 | 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM CT
1800 Sherman Avenue, 7th floor, 7-600, Evanston, IL 60201 map it

Planets, unlike stars, are thought to form from the bottom up. We review the "core accretion" theory for giant planets like Jupiter, and how it stacks up against modern-day observations of exoplanets. With the recent discovery of planets still embedded in their natal disks, planet formation is finally becoming an empirical science, in the same way that star formation matured into its present form with the advent of infrared surveys of molecular clouds.

Eugene Chiang, Professor, UC Berkeley

Host: TBA

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Graduate Students

Contact

CIERA ASTROPHYSICS   (847) 491-8646

CIERA@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)

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