ORIGINS CN-2 Day - Planets and other Habitats

Tuesday 8 Oct 2024, 09:30 → 12:40 Europe/Berlin

X2/209 - Old Seminar Room (MPE)

The CN-2 Day aims to bring together scientists interested in or working on projects related to Connector 2: Planets and Other Habitats. The event will feature a series of talks providing updates on ongoing CN-2 projects. Presentations will be tailored to a broad audience of astrophysicists, biophysicists, chemists, and other interested researchers.

Please register before September 25 to attend. If you would like to contribute a talk (15min + 5min for questions), kindly submit a title here.

The event will take place on October 8 starting at 9:30 AM in the Old Seminar Room (X2/209) at MPE, Garching.

For any questions, please contact Michael Weber (LMU/USM).

09:30 → 12:40 CN-2 Day 2024

Convener: Michael Weber (USM)

09:30 Self-division of protocells with prebiotic chemistry

Speaker: Job Boekhoven (TUM)

09:50 Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

Speaker: Philipp Schwintek

10:10 RNA ligation

Speaker: Dieter Braun

10:30 Coffee Break

10:45 ALIGN I: A pilot study on resolved transition disk systems

Speaker: Amelia Bayo (ESO)

11:05 Sequential giant planet formation initiated by disc substructure

Speaker: Tommy Chi Ho Lau (LMU Munich)

11:25 Approximating Rayleigh Scattering in Exoplanetary Atmospheres using Physics-informed Neural Networks (PINNs)

Speaker: David Dahlbüdding (LMU)

11:45 Coffee Break

12:00 Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Speaker: Fabian Grübel (LMU USM)

12:20 Studying the Earth as an Exoplanet with Earthshine observations

Speaker: Giulia Roccetti (ESO)