BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//astrosociety.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:5867965e-2418-4302-8a73-81da2e61812d X-WR-CALDESC:The Silicon Valley Lectures Series - In Person\n\nOn Wednesday \, March 13\, 2024 at 7 pm (PST)\, Dr. Jessica Lu (U. of California\, Berk eley) will give a free\, illustrated\, non-technical lecture entitled: \n \n'Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them' \nin the Smithwick The ater at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see directions below) \n\nThe ta lk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series\, now in its 24t h year. \n\n \nAbout the Talk:\n\nThe population of black holes\, object s left over from dead stars\, in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplor ed. Only about two dozen black holes are confidently known in our Galaxy - - all in “binary systems” where they orbit a living star. As a result\, so me of the most basic properties of black holes remain unknown\, including the true number of black holes in the Galaxy\, their masses and sizes\, th e fraction that are in binary systems\, and how the black holes were forme d. To understand these properties\, we need to find and study a larger pop ulation of black holes\, both in isolation and in binary systems. Gravitat ional lensing -- something predicted by Einstein’s work -- is opening a ne w window onto black holes\, and the first free-floating black holes are no w being discovered. Astronomers expect that the number of known black hol es will increase by a factor of 100 over the next decade.\n\nAbout the Lec turer:\nJessica Lu received her undergraduate degree in physics from the M IT. She worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley for 3 years before returning to academia to pursue her PhD in astronomy and astrophysics at UCLA. She was awarded a Millikan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Observational Astronomy at Caltech and was also an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Instit ute for Astronomy (IfA) in the University of Hawaii\, eventually joining t he IfA faculty. In 2016\, Lu joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley astrono my department\, where she is currently an Associate Professor.\n\n-------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -\n\nFoothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit from Freeway 280 in Los Altos. \n\nFor directions and parking information\, see: https:/ /foothill.edu/parking/ \nFor a campus map\, to find the Smithwick Theater (Bldg. 1000)\, see: https://foothill.edu/map/ \n\nThe lecture is co-sp onsored by: \n\n* Foothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Di vision \n* SETI Institute \n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific \n X-WR-RELCALID:5e205fa813c30b77e63763b224a97fef X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20241103T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20250309T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:25b867a0-a2e7-4b68-bab6-ea5adab6b40d DTSTAMP:20260405T033100Z DESCRIPTION:The Silicon Valley Lectures Series - In Person\n\nOn Wednesday\ , March 13\, 2024 at 7 pm (PST)\, Dr. Jessica Lu (U. of California\, Berke ley) will give a free\, illustrated\, non-technical lecture entitled: \n \n'Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them' \nin the Smithwick Theat er at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see directions below) \n\nThe talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series\, now in its 24th year. \n\n \nAbout the Talk:\n\nThe population of black holes\, objects left over from dead stars\, in the Milky Way is almost entirely unexplored . Only about two dozen black holes are confidently known in our Galaxy -- all in “binary systems” where they orbit a living star. As a result\, some of the most basic properties of black holes remain unknown\, including th e true number of black holes in the Galaxy\, their masses and sizes\, the fraction that are in binary systems\, and how the black holes were formed. To understand these properties\, we need to find and study a larger popul ation of black holes\, both in isolation and in binary systems. Gravitatio nal lensing -- something predicted by Einstein’s work -- is opening a new window onto black holes\, and the first free-floating black holes are now being discovered. Astronomers expect that the number of known black holes will increase by a factor of 100 over the next decade.\n\nAbout the Lectu rer:\nJessica Lu received her undergraduate degree in physics from the MIT . She worked as a software engineer in Silicon Valley for 3 years before r eturning to academia to pursue her PhD in astronomy and astrophysics at UC LA. She was awarded a Millikan Postdoctoral Fellowship in Observational As tronomy at Caltech and was also an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Institut e for Astronomy (IfA) in the University of Hawaii\, eventually joining the IfA faculty. In 2016\, Lu joined the faculty of the UC Berkeley astronomy department\, where she is currently an Associate Professor.\n\n---------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- \n\nFoothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit from Freeway 280 i n Los Altos. \n\nFor directions and parking information\, see: https:// foothill.edu/parking/ \nFor a campus map\, to find the Smithwick Theater (Bldg. 1000)\, see: https://foothill.edu/map/ \n\nThe lecture is co-spo nsored by: \n\n* Foothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Div ision \n* SETI Institute \n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific \n DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240313T210000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Free Silicon Valley Lecture Series: 'Black Holes and the Technology to Find Them' with Dr. Jessica Lu (U. of California\, Berkeley) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR