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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2024 9:47 AM<br>
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<span style="font-size:15px; color:rgb(36,36,36)">We’re excited to announce that next week’s planetary seminar will feature Sara Vannah from Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER). Please find her abstract below.
<b>Join us on Tuesday March 19th at 12:30 PM in 54-517 or on Zoom</b>. Lunch will be provided and we encourage you to arrive a bit early to get food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size:15px; color:rgb(36,36,36)">Talk details and Zoom information are below. We hope to see you there!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(36,36,36)">Title: Information theory as a tool in the search for life on exoplanets</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; color:rgb(36,36,36)">Abstract: JWST and a host of upcoming missions promise a critical leap in the search for other life in the Universe. The massive improvement in the quantity and quality of exoplanet
observations these instruments will bring accelerates the need for a minimally assumptive technique to search for signs of life on these planets. In this seminar, I will introduce a diagnostic tool that uses information theory to search for signatures of Earth-analogue
planets. I will discuss results from testing the tool on a series of simulated Earth models in different contexts – with different temperature host stars and through three epochs in the evolution of life – demonstrating the ability of the method to trace the
evolution of life on Earth. The method provides a quick, minimally assumptive diagnostic for assessing whether an exoplanet shows signs of habitability or even of extant life.</span></p>
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