Join us for an evening of learning and conversations with UW astronomers!
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We’re at the brink of a new age of survey-driven discovery in astronomy. Where before we could only study a handful of objects at a time, new detectors, algorithms, and telescopes will soon allow us – and the entire world – to monitor billions.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), the most comprehensive optical astronomical sky survey ever undertaken, will obtain panoramic images of the night sky every clear night for ten years, starting this year. The resulting 60 petabytes of imaging data, essentially a digital color movie of the night sky, will include about 20 billion galaxies and a similar number of stars, and will be used for investigations ranging from cataloging potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids to fundamental physics such as characterization of dark matter and dark energy.
Prof. Ivezic will describe scientific goals behind this project, showcase its early data, and discuss remaining fine tuning of the Observatory in order to start LSST.
We hope you can join us for this enriching experience!
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Željko Ivezić is a professor of astronomy at the University of Washington, Head of Rubin’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time and former Director of Rubin Observatory Construction. Željko’s scientific interests are in detection, analysis and interpretation of electromagnetic radiation from astronomical sources, with emphasis on large datasets and machine learning.
