JIN Sheng, a Ph.D. candidate of the Near-Earth Object Detection and Solar System Object Research Group of Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO), was awarded 800 Euro as financial support to attend the IAU (International Astronomical Union) Symposium 276 (The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems: Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution), which will be held in Torino, Italy on Oct. 11-15, 2010. The Symposium will bring together leading experts from the many different research disciplines involved with the broad aims of 1) summarizing current understanding of this rapidly evolving, interdisciplinary research field by discussing the current observational evidence in connection with the most recent theoretical models, and 2) identifying objectives and strategies necessary to advance in the coming years comprehension of the many processes which connect the formation, architecture, structure, and evolution of planetary systems.
JIN Sheng will give an oral presentation about "Close-in Earth-like Planets Formed by a Collide-Merge Scenario in the Late Stage", and introduce a new mechanism to explain the formation origin of a class of short-period extrasolar planets - "super-Earth". This research project was supervised by Prof. JI Jianghui. |
