Redfield Invited Speaker at Extrasolar Planets Conference in Germany

Seth Redfield, assistant professor of astronomy, spoke on “Properties of the Interstellar Medium Surrounding the Sun and Nearby Stars” during a conference held March 11-15 in the Physikzentrum in Bad Honnef, Germany.

The conference, which was 527th in a series, was sponsored by the Wilhelm und Else Heraeus Stiftung, a German foundation that supports scientific research and education. The topic of the conference was “Plasma and Radiation Environment in Astrospheres and Implications for the Habitability of Extrasolar Planets.”