October ’26 Monthly Meeting – The End of the Worlds

For this months guest speaker presentation, we welcome Prof. Boris Gaensicke who will provide a talk on the fate of planetary systems.

Prof Gaensicke is a Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and is currently an ERC Advanced Grant Fellow, leading the project on planetary systems around white dwarfs (“WDPlanets”).

His research primarily focuses on the study of white dwarfs, the remnant cores of stars with initial masses less than 10 solar masses. He is particularly interested in the evolution of planetary systems beyond the main sequence, compact binaries containing at least one white dwarf and their potential evolution toward thermonuclear supernovae, and, more generally, in observational studies of isolated white dwarfs and white dwarfs in binary systems.

More information about Prof Gaensicke’s work, can be found here:
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/physics/research/astro/people/gaensicke/