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Reminder to <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZIrUgdZ52bhw7aLKMl2FHud8hbmGnW3AvaehsiiZofY/edit?usp=sharing" id="LPlnk" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZIrUgdZ52bhw7aLKMl2FHud8hbmGnW3AvaehsiiZofY/edit?usp=sharing">
sign up</a> to meet with our PLS speaker for tomorrow, Sara Vannah. Sara is visiting us from AER in Lexington to talk about information theory as a tool to search for life on exoplanets! </div>
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<b>Samantha Hasler</b></div>
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PhD Candidate | Planetary Science</div>
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<b>From:</b> Isaac Narrett <narrett@mit.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2024 6:58 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> planetary <planetary@mit.edu>; baps <baps@mit.edu>; mitexoplanets <mitexoplanets@mit.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> svannah@aer.com <svannah@aer.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: PLS 3/19 - Sara Vannah</div>
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If you would like to meet with Sara, please fill out the following form: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZIrUgdZ52bhw7aLKMl2FHud8hbmGnW3AvaehsiiZofY/edit?usp=sharing" id="LPlnk" class="x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
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<b>From:</b> Isaac Narrett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 15, 2024 9:47 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> planetary <planetary@mit.edu>; baps <baps@mit.edu>; mitexoplanets <mitexoplanets@mit.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> svannah@aer.com <svannah@aer.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> PLS 3/19 - Sara Vannah</div>
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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.</div>
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Talk details and Zoom information are below. We hope to see you there!</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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Zoom link: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/93069069393" id="OWAc323f5ec-8199-f994-6565-16df2b396397" class="x_x_OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin: 0px;">
https://mit.zoom.us/j/93069069393</a></div>
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