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Astrophysics Seminars

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 11:00 am (unless otherwise noted). They will be held in Bloomberg Lecture Hall. If an event was recorded, you can find it posted at ias.edu/videos under Natural Sciences. 

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Astrophysics Seminar Archives

Feb
19
2026

Institute for Advanced Study Astrophysics Seminar

Rethinking about gravitational instability as a planet formation scenario
Cristiano Longarini
11:00am|Bloomberg Lecture Hall

The ubiquity of substructures in protoplanetary discs has opened debate regarding the alignment of planet formation timescales with protostellar disc evolution. Under the hypothesis of the planetary interpretation, a robust conclusion is that a...