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Mathematical Research at the University of Cambridge

 

Stars are all rotating but some more than others... Rotation is fast when you cannot ignore it, whatever the problem you are considering. Practically, I consider that if the
centrifugal flattening of a star exceeds 5%, it is rapidly rotating. The Sun's flattening is 0.001%, thus very very small: it is a slowly rotating star.

In this talk I will therefore focus on stars that spin about a hundred times faster than the Sun. I'll present the many questions, and their first answers, emerging as we seek to
understand how rotation shapes stellar evolution and stellar seismology.

Further information

Time:

06Feb
Feb 6th 2026
16:00 to 17:00

Venue:

MR2

Speaker:

Michel Rietuord, University of Toulouse

Series:

Fluid Mechanics (DAMTP)