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Speaker Night – The Hunting Outbursting Young stars Citizen Science Project (HOYS)
June 27, 2025 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Talk Synopsis
The talk will give a general introduction on the formation of stars and planets. I will show how we are using data from amateur telescopes to monitor the brightness of 1000s of young stars to study their properties. A few selected recent results will also be discussed. At the end I will give some details how people can participate in our project.
Bio: After completing his degree in Physics at the Universität Leipzig in Germany, Dr Dirk Froebrich went on to study for his PhD at the Universität Jena. From Germany, he moved to a researcher position at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and was appointed Lecturer in Astronomy/Astrophysics at the University of Kent in 2009. In 2023, he was appointed Reader in Astronomy/Astrophysics at the University of Kent.
Dr Froebrich’s main research areas are young protostars and their outflows, structure and properties of molecular clouds and the formation and evolution of star clusters.
Banner Credit: https://hoys.space/
Venue
- DV2072 William Davis Building UTM
Getting There:
Paid parking in lot 8 is adjacent to the Recreation Athletics and Wellness Centre.
Use the entrance facing Outer Circle road. Walk up the stairs up to the second floor. Continue past Tim Hortons on the second floor and turn right. Follow the hallway to the room 2072 -- look for the RASC banner.
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To use the elevators, continue straight on after you enter the building. Take the elevator to the second floor. Turn left out of the elevators and continue down the long hallway to room DW2072 -- look for the RASC banner. If you go by Tim Hortons to the stairs going down, you've gone the wrong way.
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