Jessica Donaldson, a postdoctoral associate at DTM, will give a talk titled "Young Stars and Disks" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, June 2, 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's Weekly Seminar Series.
Donaldson received her Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2014. Donaldson's research focuses on understanding the last stages of planet formation by observing circumstellar environments. Specifically, she tries to determine the composition of dust grains in young debris disks which may be the sites of ongoing planet formation.
Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.