ALERT: Monday Night Mooch (2/27) is at Ke ‘Olu. Debra Fischer presenting: Finding new Planets

Monday night the mooch is being held at Ke ‘Olu  5 PM – 6:45 PM.

Keck Observatory is providing a lecture about the most exciting activities in discovering planets outside of our solar system.

Debra Ann Fischer is a professor of astronomy at Yale University. Fischer has co-authored over 100 papers on dwarf and sub-stellar mass objects in the galactic neighborhood, including many on extrasolar planets. She is a principal investigator with the N2K Consortium searching for exoplanets. She is also a member of the planet search team led by Geoffrey Marcy looking for extrasolar planets.