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Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Update

Date and Time

Thursday, May 9, 2019, 8:00 PM

Location

Phillips Auditorium
60 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA  
USA

Category

Monthly Meeting

Registration Info

Registration is not Required

About this event

Dr. George R. Ricker is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which was successfully launched in April 2018. He is currently the Director of the Detector Laboratory and Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Dr. Ricker received his undergraduate degree from MIT in physics, an M.S. in astronomy from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in physics from MIT.


Please join us for a pre-meeting dinner discussion at House of Chang, 282 Concord Ave, Cambridge, MA at 6:00pm before the meeting.