Big Picture Talk: The exoplanet revolution

Talk by Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz

© ESO/M. Kornmesser/Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org)

Postponed to spring/fall 2021 due to the COVID-19 situation in Vienna

We are sorry! The talk by Didier Queloz had to be postponed due to the current COVID-19 situation. We will inform you about the new date as soon as possible!

Over the past 25 years, spectacular discoveries of exoplanet systems have modified our perspective on planet formation as a whole and, more specifically, our place in the Universe. Nobel Laureate Didier Queloz, who discovered the first exoplanet in 1995, will introduce the audience to the diversity of exoplanets and describe what we have learnt about their structure and formation mechanisms. Based on recent work about the origin of life on Earth, he is going to present new perspectives about the minimum conditions required to form the chemical building blocks of life. In this talk he will also explore a possible pathway to detect Earth-like systems amenable for future work on the origins of life.

Opening of Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences

The lecture was organized by the Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences (VISESS) to mark the opening of the new doctoral school as well as the start of the VISESS talk series "The Big Picture". We will inform you about the new date as soon as possible!

Programme

Postponed to 2021, date tbd (the event was planned for 25 September 2020, but had to be canceled due to the current COVID-19-situation)

Welcome & opening of VISESS

Jean-Robert Tyran, Vice-Rector Research and International Affairs, University of Vienna
Petra Heinz, Dean Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy, University of Vienna
Franz Kerschbaum, Director VISESS - Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences

Lecture: The exoplanet revolution

Didier Queloz, Professor at Cambridge University, UK and Geneva University, Switzerland, Physics Nobel Prize 2019 (shared with J. Peebles & M. Mayor)

Moderation: Kristina Kislyakova

The Big Picture @ VISESS

The Big Picture @ VISESS

The “Big Picture” Talk Series is organized by VISESS, the "Vienna International School of Earth and Space Sciences", which is offering an internationally oriented training to current and future doctoral students at the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy of the University of Vienna.

As humanity is facing grand challenges such as climate change or resource depletion, this new doctoral school is addressing these challenges through inter- and transdisciplinary academic research connecting the cosmos with planet Earth, it’s environment and the anthroposphere.

With the Big Picture Talks organized by VISESS-students, the doctoral school aims to present current topics of scientific and societal interest to the interested public.