Hot chemistry and physics in planet forming zones of disks

by Jeanette Bast (SU Fysikum)

Friday 24 May 2013, 10:30 → 11:30 Europe/Stockholm

FA31

Questions about our origin have always fascinated humankind. How did life arise from the beginning? Is the origin of life something specific to our own planet? Indeed, can life exist elsewhere? Many of these questions will remain unanswered for many more generations to come and require progress in many small steps. In this talk. I will present the main results from my PhD thesis which is taking one of these smalls steps towards answering the question about the origin of life, by in detail studying the inner regions around young stars where terrestrial, hence Earth like, planets are thought to be forming.