[Baps] Origins Forum-Wednesday, 9/15 @ 4:00 PM

[Sarah Stewart-Mukhopadhyay]

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Date: Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM
Subject: Reminder: Origins Forum-Wednesday, 9/15 @ 4:00 PM
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 *Please join us for the first Origins Forum of the 2010-11 academic year on
Wednesday, September 15 at 4:00 PM.  Lisa Kaltenegger (Harvard
University/CfA/Origins of Life) will present a talk entitled “Super-Earth &
Life: a fascinating puzzle” (see abstract below).*

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*Please note the new location: The Forum will be held in Haller Hall (Room
102), Geo Museum, 24 Oxford Street .*

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*We hope you will join us.*

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*Abstract:*

*The first Super-Earths have recently been discovered. This number will rise
significantly when Kepler planetary candidates will be confirmed. We show
models for rocky Super-Earth atmospheres and derive detectable spectroscopic
features that can indicate habitable environments in transmission and
emergent spectra for future space- and ground based telescopes like the
James Webb Space Telescope. What does it take for super-Earths to support
life? As a specific example, we show under which condition the recently
discovered M-dwarf planet Gl581 d is potentially habitable. This talk will
focus on the cross-disciplinary connection between planetary science,
biology and astronomy and explore its remotely detectable features in a
planets atmosphere. The observational features of the planet are used to
derive observable quantities to examine if our concept of habitability is
correct and how we can find the first habitable new worlds in the sky.*

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*Dates of Upcoming 2010-11 Origins Forums:*

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*October 20, 2010 *

*November 17, 2010*

*December 15, 2010 *

*February 16, 2011*

*March 23, 2011 *

*April 20, 2011*

*May 18, 2011*

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*Questions - contact Carol Knell at
**cknell at cfa.harvard.edu*<cknell at cfa.harvard.edu>
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