Location: Multifunctional Hall on the 5th floor Meeting time: 2021/05/26 14:00-15:00 (CST)
Speaker: Shude Mao (Tsinghua University)
Extrasolar planets with gravitational microlensing
Shude Mao
Abstract
Microlensing has become a powerful method to detect extrasolar planets beyond the snowline and free-floating planets. In this talk, I will first discuss the basic concepts of gravitational microlensing, and then review some of the recent progress on the discovery of extrasolar planets with microlensing with space satellites and the current generation of ground-based surveys.
Bio
Mao Shude is a professor at Tsinghua University and the head of the Department of Astronomy. His main research interests are exoplanet search, gravitational lensing and galaxy dynamics.