Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of exploring astrophysics. Today I am speaking to Dr Lynne Hillenbrand, a professor of Astronomy at Caltech who is an expert in the formation and evolution of young stars and the formation of star clusters. Dr. Hillenbrand spoke to me about trying to learn more about the evolution of these young stars, whose processes are often hidden behind dust and gasses from the Nebula it is in. Her work is partly focus on the properties of the circumstellar disc, a disc of gas and dust that rotates around a young star.
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Dr Kareem El-Badry, incoming Assistant professor at Caltech
Dr Maria Charisi, Postdoctoral associate at Vanderbilt University
Dr Robert Simcoe, Director of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Dr Gina Panopoulou, Assistant professor, Chalmers University of Technology
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