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Planet Hunter, Dr. Tabetha Boyajian
August 20, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Free Will DonationAstronomer Boyajian is assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D from Georgia State, where she was awarded the Hubble Fellowship and continued her research at Georgia State for three years. She then was a postdoc at Yale University, where she was part of the Yale Exoplanet Group. In her 2016 TEDtalk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown. The extraordinary idea – that aliens built what is now known as “Tabby’s Star” or “Boyajian’s Star” – will indeed require extraordinary evidence.
Planet-hunter Boyajian will come to Kearney for an Aug. 20 free, public talk on the eve prior the Great American Solar Eclipse.
Astronomer Boyajian is assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at Louisiana State University. She earned her Ph.D from Georgia State, where she was awarded the Hubble Fellowship and continued her research at Georgia State for three years. She then was a postdoc at Yale University, where she was part of the Yale Exoplanet Group. In her 2016 TEDtalk, Boyajian gives us a look at how scientists search for and test hypotheses when faced with the unknown. The extraordinary idea – that aliens built what is now known as “Tabby’s Star” or “Boyajian’s Star” – will indeed require extraordinary evidence.
Planet-hunter Boyajian will come to Kearney for an Aug. 20 free, public talk on the eve prior the Great American Solar Eclipse.