{"id":73473,"date":"2017-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/astrophysicist-planetary-scientist-sara-seager-to-speak-nov-28-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2017-11-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T00:00:00","slug":"astrophysicist-planetary-scientist-sara-seager-to-speak-nov-28-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/astrophysicist-planetary-scientist-sara-seager-to-speak-nov-28-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Astrophysicist, planetary scientist Sara Seager to speak Nov. 28 at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I.- November 10, 2017-Sara Seager, one of\u00a0Time\u00a0<\/em>magazine\u2019s 25\u00a0Most\u00a0Influential People in Space, will present a lecture titled, \u201cThe Search for Another Earth,<\/em>\u201d as part of this year\u2019s Honors Colloquium at the 溏心vlog免费B站. The lecture will be held on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road.<\/p>\n

Seager is a professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a 2013 MacArthur Fellow. The MacArthur Fellowship Program awards unrestricted fellowships to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction.<\/p>\n

The focus of Seager\u2019s research revolves around theory, computation, and data analysis of exoplanets. Exoplanets are planets that exist beyond our solar system and orbit around stars other than the sun. Some of her most substantial contributions to the field of exoplanet characterization include work that led to the first detection of an exoplanet atmosphere. Seager also works in space instrumentation and space missions for exoplanets.<\/p>\n

Referred to by NASA as an \u201castronomical Indiana Jones,\u201d Seager has published two textbooks on the topics of extrasolar planets and their atmospheres. Seager earned her bachelor’s degree from the Math and Science Physics Specialist Program at the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in astronomy from Harvard University.<\/p>\n

In addition to studying exoplanets and their atmospheres, Seager is frontiering advanced hardware design and space mission projects, including ExoplanetSat. This particular endeavor aims to build low-cost \u201cnano-satellites\u201d to observe planetary transits. Essentially, the concept involves dozens of cheap replicas of an extremely small space telescope that will provide the ability to explore space in ways like never before.<\/p>\n

The ultimate goal of Seager\u2019s research is to find an earth-like exoplanet and determine that there is life on it. In order for life to be sustainable on an exoplanet, it would have to be one of reasonable mass that orbits its star within a comfortable temperature that is not too hot or too cold and would allow water to remain liquid.<\/p>\n

Titled, \u201cOrigins: Life, the Universe and Everything,\u201d this fall\u2019s colloquium addresses such questions as \u201cWhere did we come from? How did the universe begin? How did intelligent, rational beings arise? And from such humble beginnings, how did we develop a mind that can ask these big questions? Now in its 54th year, the colloquium is the University\u2019s premier public lecture series, offering lectures on most Tuesday evenings through Dec. 5. Seager\u2019s lecture will be shown on the web at stream.uri.edu<\/p>\n

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KINGSTON, R.I.- November 10, 2017-Sara Seager, one of\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine\u2019s 25\u00a0Most\u00a0Influential People in Space, will present a lecture titled, \u201cThe Search for Another Earth,\u201d as part of this year\u2019s Honors Colloquium at the 溏心vlog免费B站. The lecture will be held on Nov. 28 at 7 p.m. in Edwards Hall, 64 Upper College Road. Seager is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}