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2025 April MDAS General Meeting Vera C. Rubin Observatory Prof Steven Kah n

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a large-aperture, wide-field telescope designed to produce imaging surveys of the entire southern hemisphere of sky every few nights. Over ten years of operations, the Rubin Observatory will obtain roughly 1,000 images of every part of the southern sky. Comparison of these various images will enable detections of everything that changes in brightness in the sky as well as everything that moves in the sky. Summing all of these images will yield detections of roughly 20 billion galaxies and a comparable number of stars. Detailed statistical analyses of these data will address a wide variety of key topics in solar system science, the structure of the Milky Way galaxy, transient astrophysics, and fundamental cosmology. Kahn will describe the key elements of the project and some of the most exciting science that will come from this facility, which is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. Steven M. Kahn is the Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. He has also held senior faculty positions at both Stanford and Columbia Universities. Prior to assuming his current position in 2022, Kahn was the Director of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Construction Project. He is a distinguished experimental astrophysicist who has made major contributions to X-ray astronomy as well as observational cosmology. Kahn is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. WHAT’S UP MEMBER TALK Edmund Halley Biography by MDAS member René Gandolfi