This Wednesday (8th May) we host Prof. Caroline Terquem at the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre to give us a talk about extrasolar planets.
The first planet in orbit around a star simiIar to the Sun was discovered in 1995. Since then, more than 5000 extrasolar planets have been detected. Most of them have characteristics very different from the planets in our own solar system. I will give an overview of these extrasolar planets and describe planet formation and evolution, with a particular focus on migration and multi-planet systems.
Oxford University Physics Society 