Friday, October 15th at 2.00pm @ the JAC

  ABSTRACT: The recent discovery of a debris disk around the M dwarf AU Microscopii has shifted the focus of the search for planetary systems to low mass stars as never before. Since M dwarfs comprise 85% of the stellar population by number, their ability to form planetesimals impacts greatly the abundance of planetary systems. I will present the discovery data of AU Mic's disk and present some of the followup to those JCMT data. I will also present proposed observations with the JCMT, Gemini, VLBA and GBT which concentrate on identifying disks and planets in the low-mass stellar population.