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Cosmology and Exoplanets: Unpacking the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics

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dc.contributor.author Li, Gongjie
dc.contributor.author Wise, John H.
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Physics en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2019-11-08T15:05:46Z
dc.date.available 2019-11-08T15:05:46Z
dc.date.issued 2019-10-22
dc.description Presented on October 22, 2019 at 6:00 p.m. in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Room 152. en_US
dc.description John Wise is an associate professor in the School of Physics. He uses numerical simulations to study the formation and evolution of galaxies and their black holes. He is one of the lead developers of the community-driven, open-source astrophysics code Enzo and has vast experience running state-of-the-art simulations on the world’s largest supercomputers. en_US
dc.description Gongjie Li is an assistant professor in the School of Physics and the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. She studies the dynamics and formation mechanism of planetary systems, as well as stars around supermassive black holes. en_US
dc.description Runtime: 61:05 minutes en_US
dc.description.abstract Cosmology studies the universe at the largest scales, applying the laws of physics over billions of light years and all the way back to the universe's infancy. In dozens of groundbreaking publications, Jim Peebles laid the foundations for theoretical cosmology, painting a picture of how matter evolves from the moments after the Big Bang into a cosmic web of dark matter and galaxies. His work set the stage for current research that routinely uses supercomputer simulations to study the astrophysics of galaxies. Closer to home, people have speculated the existence of planets outside of our own solar system for centuries. However, there was no way of knowing whether they exist and how common they are. In 1995, the first discovery of an extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, orbiting a Sun-like star was made by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, who detected the signatures of the planet 51 Pegasi b as it pulls its host star. This discovery marked a breakthrough in astrophysics and led to various fields of interests, including the formation and habitability of exoplanets. en_US
dc.format.extent 61:05 minutes
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/62017
dc.language English en_US
dc.language.iso en_US en_US
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Physics Public Lecture Series
dc.subject Cosmology en_US
dc.subject Exoplanet en_US
dc.title Cosmology and Exoplanets: Unpacking the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics en_US
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