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SUMMARY:Gautham Narayan\; The Vera C. Rubin Observatory: A Cosmic Movie Be
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DESCRIPTION:The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has begun opera
 tions and will soon scan the entire southern sky every three nights for a 
 decade. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time will discover millions of aste
 roids\, millions of supernovae and other transients\, and assemble the lar
 gest catalog of galaxies yet.\n \nI will give a current snapshot of Rubin
  from my recent visit to the summit: where the telescope stands today\, wh
 at still has to happen before the first data release\, and the observing c
 onditions the survey will face. I will place Rubin in the context of the s
 urveys that preceded it and alongside its partners\, NASA's Roman Space Te
 lescope and ESA's Euclid mission. I will then sketch the science LSST will
  transform — the solar system\, the Milky Way\, galaxy evolution\, trans
 ients\, dark matter\, and dark energy — and close on the role of astrono
 mical AI foundation models in analyzing surveys at this scale.\n \n\nAbou
 t the speaker:\nGautham Narayan is a Professor of Astronomy at the Univers
 ity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Deputy Director for Astrophysics Rese
 arch at the NSF-Simons SkAI Institute. He is Spokesperson for the LSST Dar
 k Energy Science Collaboration and PI of the NSF SCIMMA project for multi-
 messenger cyberinfrastructure. His research spans supernova cosmology and 
 the Hubble tension\, rare and exotic transients\, and foundation models fo
 r time-domain astrophysics\, with current work focused on dark energy cons
 traints from the combined Rubin\, Roman\, and Euclid surveys.\n\n\nIn the 
 OKC:  Monday-Friday\, May 11-15\, in the CoPS A5 corridor \n\nhttps://in
 dico.fysik.su.se/event/9493/
LOCATION:FB51 (AlbaNova Main Building)
URL:https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/9493/
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