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Reminder that Kate Follette will be on campus next Tuesday to give the Planetary Lunch Seminar. Please sign up to meet with her
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Sammy, on behalf of the PLS Organizing Committee</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Samantha Hasler <shasler@mit.edu><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 8, 2025 11:49 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> planetary <planetary@mit.edu>; mitexoplanets <mitexoplanets@mit.edu>; exoplanetsgroup <exoplanetsgroup@mit.edu>; exoplanets <exoplanets@cfa.harvard.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Kate Follette <kfollette@amherst.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [PLS] May 13: Kate Follette (Amherst College)</font>
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We're excited to announce that our last speaker for the spring Planetary Lunch Seminar will be
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Prof. Kate Follette</a> from Amherst College in Western Mass. The seminar will be held next week on
<b>Tuesday, May 13th at 12:30 PM in 54-517</b>, but we encourage you to arrive a bit early to get lunch. There will also be the option to attend virtually. The talk title, abstract, and Zoom information are provided below.</div>
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Kate has some availability for one-on-one meetings; <u>please sign up for a meeting
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here</a></u>.</div>
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We hope to see you there!</div>
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Sammy, on behalf of the PLS Organizing Committee</div>
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Too Big to Form: Accreting Planetary Mass Companions as a Key Piece of the Planet Formation Puzzle<br>
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We are entering an exciting era where it is possible to directly constrain the formation pathways of giant planets by imaging planetary systems still in the act of forming from their circumstellar environment. Breadcrumbs of formation physics are sprinkled
amidst detection and characterization studies of forming protoplanets and young brown dwarf companions (so-called "Planetary Mass Companions", or PMCs), as well as high-contrast imaging studies of circumstellar and circumplanetary disks. In this talk, I will
describe my group's efforts to find and characterize accreting planets, paying particular attention to the open questions inherent in the process of translating observed object properties (e.g. contrast at an accretion-tracing wavelength) to physically-meaningful
ones (e.g. mass accretion rate). I will present recent ground and space-based multiwavelength observational efforts, as well as simulation and metaanalysis efforts, that share the broad goal of informing the properties of PMCs on a population-level. They
speak strongly to the promise of JWST for disentangling the various hypothesized formation pathways for these puzzling super-massive planetary companions. </div>
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Zoom link: <a href="https://mit.zoom.us/j/97275591700" id="OWA58d8887a-59b5-3ac8-ef49-403e76e9c87d" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://mit.zoom.us/j/97275591700" data-linkindex="1" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px">
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