Johanna Teske, an Origins fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled, "Exoplanet Genetics: What Host Star Chemical Abundances Reveal about Exoplanets", at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 31 March 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall.
Teske received her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona in 2014. Her research focuses on measuring the abundances of different elements in exoplanet host stars in order to learn about the starting chemical conditions for planet formation. She uses high resolution optical spectrometers mounted on big telescopes in Hawaii and Chile to collect her data; observing and tinkering with these instruments is her favorite part of her job.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.