Erika Nesvold, postdoctoral fellow at DTM, will give a talk titled "Exoplanets and Debris Disks: Finding the Needle by Modeling the Haystack" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, September 22, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Nesvold received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, in 2015. She is interested in the interaction between a debris disk and any planets orbiting in or near the disk. She models this interaction to determine how asymmetries and features observed in a disk can indicate the presence of an unseen exoplanet and even constrain its mass and orbit.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.
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