Paul Butler, staff scientist at DTM, will give a talk titled "Surveying nearby stars for planets" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 7, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Butler received his Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland in 1993. His research interests include observational astrophysics, stellar spectroscopy, precision Doppler instrumentation, extrasolar planets, Sun-like stars, supergiants and Cepheid variable stars
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.