Good day.
It is our pleasure to welcome you to today's seminar, where we will be exploring the fascinating dynamics of eccentric binary star systems. Our speaker is Dr. Piotr Kołaczek-Szymański, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Liège in Belgium. Dr. Kołaczek-Szymański is a rising figure in the field of stellar astrophysics, with a research focus on binary interactions—particularly in massive, eccentric systems. His work delves into topics such as stellar pulsations, binary mergers, and the intriguing class of objects known as "heartbeat stars."
In this seminar titled "On the Evolution of Eccentric Ellipsoidal Variables," Dr. Kołaczek-Szymański will guide us through the latest research on these systems, exploring tidally excited oscillations, their evolutionary implications, and how phenomena like periastron effects and stellar wind collisions can mimic the signatures of eccentric ellipsoidal variables.
We hope you will enjoy the talk and take an interest in this area of research.
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