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X-WR-CALDESC:\n'Finding Exoplanets'\nAstronomy Cafe online public engagemen
 t talks with Elizabeth Melton & Macy Huston\n\nThe ASP will be presenting 
 an hour of free online Astronomy Cafe Mini-Talks starting April 25. This f
 irst one features two Astronomy Ambassadors from our On-the-Spot-Feedback 
 National Science Foundation (NSF) project\, Elizabeth Melton and Macy Hust
 on (both from Penn State Univ.). Each are experts on the search for planet
 s outside our solar system\, and they will take turns giving interactive a
 nd engaging 20-25 minute talks\, with dedicated time (5-10 mins each) for 
 Q&A with curious and interested participants from the audience. \n\nAbout 
 the talks:\n\nAlien Day is held every year on April 26th to celebrate the 
 Alien franchise movies (the moon on which the second Alien movie\, Aliens\
 , took place was LV-426). Some of the best science fiction books and movie
 s center around alien worlds and mankind traveling far out to distant plac
 es.  But how do we turn science fiction into a future space-rocket-road tr
 ip? The first step for any trip will be to find new planets that we want t
 o visit and explore\, and the second will be to learn as much as we can ab
 out these planets before we arrive. There are many ways we find planets ou
 tside of our solar system (called exoplanets) and we will briefly go over 
 some of the methods for finding exoplanets and what those methods can tell
  us about exoplanets. Melton will present on Transit and Radial Velocity M
 ethods\, and Huston will present on Direct Imaging and Microlensing.\n\n A
 bout the speakers:\n\n Elizabeth Melton is a graduate student in astronomy
  at Pennsylvania State University. She works on the AutoRegressive Planet 
 Search project which combines modern statistical methods and machine learn
 ing classification to search for transiting exoplanets.\n\n Macy Huston is
  a graduate student in astronomy at Pennsylvania State University. They wo
 rk on the searches for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life.
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DESCRIPTION:\n'Finding Exoplanets'\nAstronomy Cafe online public engagement
  talks with Elizabeth Melton & Macy Huston\n\nThe ASP will be presenting a
 n hour of free online Astronomy Cafe Mini-Talks starting April 25. This fi
 rst one features two Astronomy Ambassadors from our On-the-Spot-Feedback N
 ational Science Foundation (NSF) project\, Elizabeth Melton and Macy Husto
 n (both from Penn State Univ.). Each are experts on the search for planets
  outside our solar system\, and they will take turns giving interactive an
 d engaging 20-25 minute talks\, with dedicated time (5-10 mins each) for Q
 &A with curious and interested participants from the audience. \n\nAbout t
 he talks:\n\nAlien Day is held every year on April 26th to celebrate the A
 lien franchise movies (the moon on which the second Alien movie\, Aliens\,
  took place was LV-426). Some of the best science fiction books and movies
  center around alien worlds and mankind traveling far out to distant place
 s.  But how do we turn science fiction into a future space-rocket-road tri
 p? The first step for any trip will be to find new planets that we want to
  visit and explore\, and the second will be to learn as much as we can abo
 ut these planets before we arrive. There are many ways we find planets out
 side of our solar system (called exoplanets) and we will briefly go over s
 ome of the methods for finding exoplanets and what those methods can tell 
 us about exoplanets. Melton will present on Transit and Radial Velocity Me
 thods\, and Huston will present on Direct Imaging and Microlensing.\n\n Ab
 out the speakers:\n\n Elizabeth Melton is a graduate student in astronomy 
 at Pennsylvania State University. She works on the AutoRegressive Planet S
 earch project which combines modern statistical methods and machine learni
 ng classification to search for transiting exoplanets.\n\n Macy Huston is 
 a graduate student in astronomy at Pennsylvania State University. They wor
 k on the searches for exoplanets and extraterrestrial life.
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LOCATION:Live Online Mini-Talks - Free
SUMMARY:New! ASP's Astronomy Cafe Mini-Talks: 'Finding Exoplanets'
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