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WAS December 2025 - Larry Gladney, Yale - A Survey for the Ages: the Vera Rubin Observatory

We welcome back Yale’s Larry Gladney, professor of physics at the Phyllis A. Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development to the Westport Astronomical Society Free Science Lecture Series. Dr. Gladney first spoke to WAS in May 2022 with an amazing talk on Astronomy in the Time Domain, now streaming on our YouTube channel. A Survey for the Ages: the Vera Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time On October 26th, Operations began on a 10-year project to create the largest (by far) and most complete (by far) time-lapse movie of the Universe ever made. A massive telescope and state-of-the-art camera, software, and survey methods will create a detailed inventory of our Solar System, the most complete map of our Milky Way galaxy, a record of most anything that changes in the nighttime Southern sky, and the most powerful dataset yet created for exploring the nature of dark matter and dark energy. In this talk, I will share the goals and discoveries to date before the operational phase has even begun. Larry Gladney is the Dean of Science at Yale University and a Professor of Physics. He previously served as the Phyllis A. Wallace Dean for Diversity and Faculty Development in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Before Yale, he was the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also served as Associate Dean for Natural Sciences, chaired the Department of Physics and Astronomy, chaired the Faculty Senate, and held a secondary appointment in the Graduate School of Education. He also directed and led the Penn Science Teacher Institute. Dr. Gladney’s research sits at the intersection of experimental particle physics and cosmology, exploring how matter, energy, space, and time originated and connect. He is especially focused on uncovering the cause of the universe’s accelerated expansion. He was part of the Collider Detector at Fermilab (CDF) team that co-discovered the top quark and later joined the BaBar experiment, which measured matter-antimatter asymmetry in the bottom-quark system. At CDF, he led the first exclusive reconstruction of a B meson at a hadron collider, opening a new era of bottom-quark studies. More recently, his work has centered on mission planning and simulation for the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which will map the universe’s expansion history in unprecedented detail. Dr. Gladney is author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed publications.