Name: Astrochemical Insights
Start: 2023-05-23T19:30:00
End: 2023-05-23T21:30:00
Location: The Outhouse

Get ready for an exciting journey through space and time with astrochemistry! Discover the answers to questions like “How are stars formed?”, “What were the first molecules of life?” and “What conditions could have enabled life in our universe?”. Meet the experts, and have a pint with them!

The Chemically-controlled Cosmos

Martin McCoustra (Professor of Chemical Physics )

What roles does chemistry play in the Universe? That’s the question astrochemistry seeks to answer! Even in the harsh environment of space a rich chemistry is observed. This talk will illustrate how molecular scale chemical processes can impact the rate at which stars form, the size of stars, and the likelihood of biology starting on a planet orbiting such stars.

Computational Chemistry: My time and space traveling tool in the search for the origin of life

Valentina Erastova (Chancellor's Fellow )

The origin of life, or abiogenesis, is one of the biggest mysteries driving scientific progress and piquing our curiosity. Come and learn about what could have been the very first molecules of life, the theories of abiogenesis, what is known, and what is unknown. Valentina will share her own toolkit in this endeavor - computational chemistry, and show how it allows us to travel through space and time, learning more about the locations and conditions that could favor the creation of the first molecules of life.

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