Astronomy on Tap Santa Cruz: Searching for Young Exoplanets to Understand Planet Formation and Exploring the Mysteries of the Insides of Stars

Searching For Young Exoplanets to Understand Planet Formation

Speaker: Kendall Sullivan (UCSC)

Kendall Sullivan is a postdoctoral researcher in Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Exploring the mysteries of the insides of stars

Speaker: Loren Matilsky (UCSC)

Loren Matilsky is a professional amateur theoretical astrophysicist. He really enjoys thinking about stuff and getting very large computers to answer questions about “stellar interiors” (the chaotic wild motion of the gas inside stars).