Lectures on Tap - Mapping the Dark Universe: The Largest Camera Ever Built

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🧠 Lecture: "Mapping the Dark Universe: The Largest Camera Ever Built"

🎤 Speaker: Dr. John Franklin Crenshaw

Join us for a mind-expanding evening as Dr. John Franklin Crenshaw takes us from a mountaintop in Chile to the edge of the observable universe. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to launch the most ambitious astronomical survey in history, using the largest camera ever built to repeatedly image the entire southern sky for ten years.

Discover how this extraordinary project will map our Milky Way and build the most detailed map of the cosmos ever created—all in pursuit of answers to the deepest mysteries in physics: dark matter and dark energy.

Dr. Crenshaw is a Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He leads work on major galaxy surveys, optimizing survey design and image quality, analyzing massive datasets, and building models to uncover our cosmic origins. He is a leader in Rubin’s Dark Energy Science Collaboration and contributes to the Roman Space Telescope and DESI projects.

Get a drink, connect, and learn at Lectures on Tap! 🙌

Agenda

6:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key.

6:55 PM – Host introduction

7:00 PM – Lecture begins

7:45 PM – Audience Q&A

8:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round

8:30 PM – Wrap up.