
10/20/2025
AoT is in TOMORROW!! Join us tomorrow at 7pm at and meet our second speaker Tayt Armitage! He will be giving his talk "Stellar Storm Warning! The Severe Weather Forecast for Habitable Worlds" π±πͺπ
Here in the solar system we are fortunate to have a calm sun, whose flares mainly result in a night of good-sight seeing with the auroras. Other solar systems arenβt so lucky, whose stars are so active that they can blow away entire atmospheres. This talk will break down how severe these flares can be, and possible ways life still may survive in such intense environments.
Tayt Armitage is a 3rd year graduate student in astronomy at U.W. Madison. His research focuses on the transport of material and chemistry in terrestrial planet-forming environments. Before starting at UW-Madison, Tayt got his bachelorβs at THE Ohio State University, where he studied eclipsing binary stars and stellar flares. Outside of astronomy he enjoys collecting Legoβs and spending time with his two cats (one of which is old enough to vote) and turtle.