Rebekah Dawson, an assistant professor in the Penn State Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, will present a talk titledĀ "All Planets Great and Small" at 11 a.m. on Thursday, 28 January 2016, in the Greenewalt Lecture Hall as part of DTM's weekly seminar series.

Dawson received her Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics from Harvard University in 2013. Her research interests include extra-solar planets, debris disks, dynamics of planetary and satellite systems, the Kuiper Belt, planet formation, signal processing.

Coffee, tea, and a continental breakfast will be served before the lecture at 10:30 a.m.