Finding Alien Planets Around Nearby Stars

Discovering planets around stars other than our sun is the product of 15 years of hard work and clever ideas. Currently there are over 750 detected planets around nearly 440 stars, where most of these stars are in our own solar neighborhood. This talk will de-scribe the four primary methods astronomers use to find these extra-solar planets (a.k.a. "exoplanets") and highlight interesting systems along the way.