Boston University

The Thomistic Institute and the Catholic Center at Boston University presents a lecture by Prof. Karin Oberg of Harvard University titled “Catholicism in Contemporary Astronomy”

Tuesday, October 27th

6:00 pm EST

This lecture will be on Zoom. Register below to receive Zoom credentials. Eventbrite will send a confirmation email with the credentials near the end of the email under “Additional Information.” A limited number of Boston University students may attend in person. Please email khenry@dhs.edu for more information.

If you would like to hear more about TI events at Boston University, or are interested in being involved with the chapter, contact Kaitlin Henry (khenry@dhs.edu).

About the speaker:

Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis focused on laboratory astrochemistry, from Leiden University in 2009. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. In 2013 she joined the Harvard astronomy faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted and named the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor in Astronomy in 2016, and promoted to full professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Öberg’s research in astrochemistry has been recognized with a Sloan fellowship, a Packard fellowship, the Newton Lacy Pierce Award from the American Astronomical Society, and a Simons fellowship. Her recent TED talk explaining some of her research can be found here https://www.ted.com/talks/karin_oberg_the_galactic_recipe_for_a_living_planet