Events at Physics |
Events on Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
- Climate & Diversity
- Physics Microagressions Workshop
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Place: Sterlin B343 or Zoom
- Speaker: Triston King, Office of Inclusion Education
- Abstract: What is a microaggression? How do we recognize them and how do we respond to them? How can we hold ourselves accountable when microaggressions are knowingly or unknowingly committed? Our microaggressions workshop shares campus research and supports participants in learning intervention skills to be a positive member of their community.
- Host: Rachel Zizmann
- Astronomy Colloquium
- Public Talk: New Worlds: Analyzing the Atmospheres of Exoplanets with the James Webb Space Telescope
- Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin
- Speaker: Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Abstract: Over 6000 planets have now been found around other stars, but we only have information about what their atmospheres are like for a few dozen. NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which features a 20-foot mirror in space, is currently being used to understand atmospheres. We can look for atmospheres around rocky planets the size of the Earth, and we can measure the abundances of molecules like water, methane, ammonia, and carbon dioxide, in larger planets, of sizes similar to Neptune and Jupiter. In this talk Professor Fortney will describe the latest exoplanet results from JWST as we seek to understand these new worlds.
- Host: Melinda Soares-Furtado