Dr. Eve J. Lee is an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Physics at McGill, and a member of the Trottier Space Institute and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets. She leads a theoretical astrophysics group focusing on the formation of planets and stars. She received the 2022 Vainu Bappu Gold Medal by the Astronomical Society of India, and the 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award by the American Astronomical Society (AAS), for which she gave a keynote lecture at the 2024 winter AAS meeting, in New Orleans, LA. Starting January 2025, she will be an Associate Professor in the new Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at UC San Diego.
Title: Theories of Planet Formation
Abstract: The discovery of thousands of exoplanets revealed a huge variety in the sizes, masses, and orbital properties of planets outside of our solar system. I will discuss how the physics of gas accretion, dust-gas interaction, and star-disk-planet interaction can shape the observed diversity, providing explanations for some of the puzzling demographic patterns that have emerged in exoplanet science.