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OpenCampus Culture Café Series: ‘Space: The Final Frontier’ ‘Chemistry on a comet’

UNIVERSITY OF HULL, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 74X

16 Nov 2019

11.00

FREE

Talk by Dr David Benoit, Astrochemist at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Hull.

Find out why comets and asteroids are really more like big dusty snowballs and how they act as a “mobile chemistry lab” in space. Could our water come from outer-space and has life started by hitching a ride on a comet? Let’s find out!

Dr David Benoit is an Astrochemist at the E.A. Milne centre for Astrophysics, where he studies interactions between molecules and icy interstellar dust grains. He holds a (bio)chemistry degree (U. Lausanne), a PhD in theoretical chemistry (UCL) and a German habilitation in theoretical chemistry (U. Ulm). He has authored over 55 peer-reviewed publications and uses high-performance computing to simulate the conditions observed in space and to understand how molecules vibrate on comets, asteroids and (exo)planets. He is also interested in detection of biological life forms in space, quantum properties and dynamics of large molecular systems and future technologies in high-performance computing (artificial intelligence and quantum computing).

Venue Details

UNIVERSITY OF HULL,
Cottingham Road,
Hull,
HU6 74X

01482 346311

sdms@hull.ac.uk

http://www.hull.ac.uk

The University of Hull has been changing the way people think for 90 years. Our motto, Lampada Ferens, translates as ‘carrying the light of learning’, and over the years, we’ve shared that light with thousands of people from across the world. As England’s 14th-oldest university, we have a proud heritage of academic excellence, and a history of creating and inspiring life-changing research. And we have no plans to stop helping to build a better world.

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