BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//astrosociety.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10// CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:21bcd7ac-f324-4c88-ac99-97ccab61c6c4 X-WR-CALDESC:The Silicon Valley Lecture Series is back in person and talks will be available on the YouTube channel post event for viewing at your co nvenience.\n\nOn Wednesday\, Oct. 8\, 2025 at 7 pm (PST)\, Dr. Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley) will give a free\, illustrated\, non-technical lecture enti tled: \n \n'The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Surveying the Universe' \n \nin the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see dire ctions below) \n \nThe talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Ser ies\, now in its 26th year. \n \nThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a uniq ue ground-based astronomy facility\, with the largest digital camera in th e world\, designed to provide a time-lapse “movie” of the entire sky from the Earth’s southern hemisphere. Over its planned ten years of operation\ , the Rubin Observatory will obtain nearly 1\,000 images of every part of that sky. By comparing the various images\, we will be able to detect eve rything that varies in brightness and everything that moves across the sky . By adding together all of the images\, we will be able to catalog nearly 20 billion galaxies and a comparable number of stars. After 20 years of development\, this facility has just come on-line and will soon begin its nightly operations. Prof. Kahn will review the design\, development\, and construction of Rubin\, and describe the exciting science that lies ahead .\n \nSteven M. Kahn is the Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California\, Be rkeley. Prior to returning to Berkeley in 2022\, Kahn was the Cassius Lam b Kirk Professor in the Natural Sciences at Stanford\, and the I.I. Rabi P rofessor of Physics and Astronomy at Columbia. Kahn received his A.B. deg ree from Columbia and Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley before beginning his academic career. Kahn is an experimental astrophysicist and cosmologist w ho has made major contributions to multiple fields. He was the U.S. Princ ipal Investigator on the Reflection Grating Spectrometer experiment launch ed on the European XMM- Newton Observatory in 1999. More recently\, he se rved as the Director of the Rubin Observatory construction project from it s inception in 2013 until his move to Berkeley in 2022. Kahn is an electe d Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and an elected Mem ber of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nThis lecture is in person at t he Smithwick Theater! Link to directions below.\n\nThis presentation will also be available on the SVLS YouTube site. Link below.\n\nThe lecture is co-sponsored by:\n\n* Foothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Division\n* SETI Institute\n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific\n\n---- -------------------\nFoothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit f rom Freeway 280 in Los Altos\, California\n \nFor directions and parking information as well as a campus map to find the Smithwick theater\, see i lnks below.\n\nNOTE: Parking lot 1 is closest\, with access to the theate r by stairs. Parking lot 5 provides access from the same elevation as the theater.\n\n--------------- X-WR-RELCALID:c399962ec5b4ff6f75846411272d2bcc X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 RDATE:20251102T020000 RDATE:20261101T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 RDATE:20260308T020000 RDATE:20270314T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:beb558fa-473d-471e-8963-cda0c6875c26 DTSTAMP:20260421T193657Z DESCRIPTION:The Silicon Valley Lecture Series is back in person and talks w ill be available on the YouTube channel post event for viewing at your con venience.\n\nOn Wednesday\, Oct. 8\, 2025 at 7 pm (PST)\, Dr. Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley) will give a free\, illustrated\, non-technical lecture entit led: \n \n'The New Vera C. Rubin Observatory: Surveying the Universe' \n \nin the Smithwick Theater at Foothill College\, in Los Altos (see dire ctions below) \n \nThe talk is part of the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Ser ies\, now in its 26th year. \n \nThe Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a uniq ue ground-based astronomy facility\, with the largest digital camera in th e world\, designed to provide a time-lapse “movie” of the entire sky from the Earth’s southern hemisphere. Over its planned ten years of operation\ , the Rubin Observatory will obtain nearly 1\,000 images of every part of that sky. By comparing the various images\, we will be able to detect eve rything that varies in brightness and everything that moves across the sky . By adding together all of the images\, we will be able to catalog nearly 20 billion galaxies and a comparable number of stars. After 20 years of development\, this facility has just come on-line and will soon begin its nightly operations. Prof. Kahn will review the design\, development\, and construction of Rubin\, and describe the exciting science that lies ahead .\n \nSteven M. Kahn is the Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California\, Be rkeley. Prior to returning to Berkeley in 2022\, Kahn was the Cassius Lam b Kirk Professor in the Natural Sciences at Stanford\, and the I.I. Rabi P rofessor of Physics and Astronomy at Columbia. Kahn received his A.B. deg ree from Columbia and Ph.D. in physics from Berkeley before beginning his academic career. Kahn is an experimental astrophysicist and cosmologist w ho has made major contributions to multiple fields. He was the U.S. Princ ipal Investigator on the Reflection Grating Spectrometer experiment launch ed on the European XMM- Newton Observatory in 1999. More recently\, he se rved as the Director of the Rubin Observatory construction project from it s inception in 2013 until his move to Berkeley in 2022. Kahn is an electe d Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and an elected Mem ber of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nThis lecture is in person at t he Smithwick Theater! Link to directions below.\n\nThis presentation will also be available on the SVLS YouTube site. Link below.\n\nThe lecture is co-sponsored by:\n\n* Foothill College Science\, Tech\, Engineering & Math Division\n* SETI Institute\n* Astronomical Society of the Pacific\n\n---- -------------------\nFoothill College is just off the El Monte Road exit f rom Freeway 280 in Los Altos\, California\n \nFor directions and parking information as well as a campus map to find the Smithwick theater\, see i lnks below.\n\nNOTE: Parking lot 1 is closest\, with access to the theate r by stairs. Parking lot 5 provides access from the same elevation as the theater.\n\n--------------- DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251008T200000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:Silicon Valley Lecture Series in person: 'The New Vera C. Rubin Ob servatory: Surveying the Universe' with Dr. Steven Kahn (UC Berkeley) END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR