Colloquium - Antonio Garufi’s “One step closer to planet formation”

Event details Date: Thursday, September 17, 2026 Time: 12:45 PM Location: Bryant Space Science Center Room 217 Type: Exhibits / Arts Tags: Seminar About this event Speaker: Antonio Garufi , INAF Title: One step closer to planet formation Abstract: Over the past decade, ALMA and VLT/SPHERE have unveiled a diverse range of planet-forming disk morphologies, the connection of which to planet formation remains only partially understood. Rings, gaps, spirals, warps, vortices, and asymmetries are now commonly observed and are often interpreted as signatures of planet-disk interactions. Yet, protoplanets embedded in disks remain very elusive, and ALMA is unable to probe dust grains approaching centimeter sizes, a critical stage in the process of planet formation. In this talk, I review our progresses in understanding the planet formation, and investigate the potential of ELT and SKA to address the main challenges. 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM 217 Bryant Space Science Center Official event details: https://calendar.ufl.edu/clas_astronomy/event/57115-colloquium-antonio-garufis-one-step-closer-to-planet-f