"With Supercomputers to Stars: Decoding Extreme Atmospheres of White Dwarfs"
Geoscience of Exoplanets Seminar
- Date: Jun 25, 2026
- Time: 02:15 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Piotr Kowalski (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- Head, Computational Materials Modeling Division (IET-3)
- Location: LMU, Deptartment of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Theresienstraße 41C, 80333 München
- Room: C307
- Host: Munich Center for Geoastronomy, LMU
- Contact: center.geoastronomy@lmu.de
This interdisciplinary seminar series explores how concepts and methodologies from geosciences, planetary sciences, and astrophysics can be integrated to advance our understanding of planets within our solar system and the wide variety of exoplanets beyond it.
Being remnants of majority of main sequence stars, white dwarfs keep important information on evolution of stellar populations and planetary systems. This information can be decoded by accurate modeling and proper characterization of extreme atmospheres of these stars. We will show how modern computational approaches combined with excellent data acquired from large space telescopes such as GAIA or JWST, enable revealing intriguing stellar evolution history and probing interior compositions of extrasolar planetary bodies.