EAPS

Bring your curiosity and your career questions for an informal chat over coffee with EAPS alum Cathy Olkin. Dr. Olkin is a planetary scientist who studies icy outer solar system worlds. Her interests include spacecraft investigations of these worlds and as Deputy Project Scientist of the New Horizons team she helped mastermind the world's first close-up look at Pluto last July. Dr. Olkin joined Southwest Research Institute in 2004, and she became Deputy Project Scientist on New Horizons in 2013. Prior to that she was Co-Investigator on the Science Team since 2007, Project Manager for the Ralph instrument since 2006 and currently Deputy PI for the Ralph instrument, SwRI-PI for New Horizons (2007 - 2008), Director of the Office of the PI effective 2008, and Education and Public Outreach Liaison to the Science Team 2008 - 2014. Dr. Olkin's research interests also include near-IR spectroscopy to study planetary surfaces and stellar occultation observations to investigate planetary atmospheres. We are lucky to have Cathy join us, she is very much in demand! Please register with Angela (so I can order coffee/snacks): aellis@mit.edu or 3-5796 or drop by Room 54-926.

Open to: students and postdocs.