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Giving a good talk
By Audra Baleisis In the last issue of the Insider, you had a chance to read a variety of opinions from PlanetS project leaders about what is necessary for a good science talk (for a Journal Club, group seminar, conference, or job talk). With so many different voices, sometimes saying different things, it can be […]
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Insights into current topics in gender research
By Nadine Afram Gender analysis in research and research funding is a hot topic and it is seen, for example, as a priority in Horizon 2020. In the next few issues, I will present some of the current topics that are discussed in gender research. Decision-making positions in science are still male dominated which leads […]
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New members of PlanetS
Ravit Helled is a new professor at the University of Zurich and is going to replace Prof. Michael Meyer in the academic platform of PlanetS. “I am working with people who are involved in different PlanetS projects, and my main interests are linked to theory of planet formation, evolution, and internal structure,” she explains. Ravit […]
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Postcards and roll-ups
You have soon a presentation, you are invited to a talk or you organize an event? Then the communication and outreach team can offer to support you with outreach material to reinforce your message and to make the NCCR PlanetS further known. On the one hand, two postcards are available. One of them is advertising […]
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Red grass, Einstein and ESPRESSO
Since the launch of the PlanetS Facebook page in April 2016, every week the team of authors has published more than ten new posts. Here is a list of the contributions that reached the most people. The winner with 2418 people reached is a story published on 27 May – Neighbors Day. It shows a picture […]
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The communication platform has received several requests for NCCR business cards. Therefore, we have prepared an order form with the templates below. Your order will be sent to the printer, as soon as we have received enough orders (therefore might take longer to produce). Please inform us, if your order is urgent. Any expenses related […]
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Atmospheric chemistry on paper
Normally computers speed up calculations. But with his new pen-and-paper formula Kevin Heng of the University of Bern gets his results thousands of times faster than using conventional computer codes. The astrophysicist calculates the abundances of molecules (known as atmospheric chemistry) in exoplanetary atmospheres. Ultimately, deciphering the abundances of molecules allows us to interpret if […]
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ETH welcomes the ERIS Consortium to the Hönggerberg!
On 19-20 July, approximately 30 scientists and engineers representing five partner institutions met on the ETH Honggerberg campus to review progress on the Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph (ERIS) under development for the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT). The ERIS consortium, comprised of the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (PI: R. Davies), the […]
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“Almost certainly, the Earth’s orbit will survive”
To students, Scott Tremaine is best known as co-author of “the bible of astrophysics”. His textbook “Galactic Dynamics” is one of the most cited references in astrophysics. The Richard Black Professor at the world famous Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, is also an expert in the theory of the Solar System and is credited […]
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Workshop on Circumplanetary Disks
Twenty-eight NCCR PlanetS researchers representing six out of the seven research projects met on 7 June at the ETH in Zurich to discuss the properties of circumplanetary disks thought to exist around forming gas giant planets. Many models for the formation of the largest satellites of the gas/ice giants in the Solar System assume such […]
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