Speaker: Prof.  Henrik Latter (DAMTP, Cambridge, UK)   

Title:  "Outflows, variable accretion, and planet formation in MHD models of protoplanetary discs"  

Abstract:  Protoplanetary (PP) discs comprise the swirling flows of gas and dust around new-born stars. Not only are they essential to stellar accretion, they control the assembly of planets and, subsequently, set the conditions in which these planets evolve. This talk presents theoretical and numerical results concerning the evolution of the inner regions of PP discs (< a few AU), focussing on their particularly intricate (non-ideal) magnetohydrodynamic properties and its imprint on turbulence, outflows, observed variability, and planet formation.