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[Date] May 27 [Speaker/Title] 
Rachel Osten (Space Telescope Science Institute) Title: Stellar Flares: From Plasma Physics on Stars to Space Weather on Other Worlds Abstract: The Sun is a star, but of course it is a special one by virtue of its proximity to us; many processes can be studied on the Sun in the kind of detail which is inaccessible in studies of the remote stars. The Sun and cool stars produce flaring eruptions which impact the star itself and the create the particle and radiation environment which planetary companions experience. Multi-wavelength stellar flare studies cement a physical connection with solar flare processes and invite detailed comparisons between the Sun and stars. I will describe recent results on stellar flares which probe the extremities of these events using novel observational techniques, and discuss how these can be used to give context to processes bounding solar flare properties. I will discuss how these studies give insight into space weather and habitability on other worlds, as astronomers expand the realm of potentially habitable worlds. Host: I. Neill Reid
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