Re: Fw: 🔭 UCO Living Room Lecture with Dr. Ryan Foley August 3 2020

[Robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

Think it's worth starting work early so can participate?

Oh, and do you think your dad would be interested?

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 20:24:35 +0000 (UTC)
 >
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 >     30, 2020, 08:02:49 AM PDTSubject: 🔭 UCO Living Room Lecture with Dr. 
 >     Ryan Foley August 3 2020
 >   🔭 UCO Living Room Lecture with Dr. Ryan Foley August 3 2020
 > |  
 > 🔭 Astronomy Virtual Event
 > Monday, August 3 at 4pm!
 >   |
 > •••Join us Monday, August 3 at 4pm•••
 > 
 > Dr. Ryan Foley, Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy, UCSC will give his� > �UCO Living Room Lecture via Zoom at 4pm (PDT). We also plan to share the 
 > live stream via UCO's Facebook page.
 > 
 > The Big Bang that started the Universe was the start of an expanding universe, 
 > where points within our universe moving further and further apart over time. 
 > Gravity pulling back on galaxies should slow that expansion. Twenty years ago, 
 > astronomers were astonished to discover from observations of exploding stars 
 > that the expansion is speeding up. We say that the acceleration is caused by � > �dark energy” or “cosmic anti-gravity,” which accounts for 70% of the 
 > Universe.
 > 
 > Professor Ryan Foley will discuss this Nobel Prize winning discovery and what 
 > we’ve learned about dark energy in the last two decades. 
 > He will also discuss the cosmological mystery du jour, “Hubble tension,” 
 > and how observations of exploding stars, especially those made at Lick and Keck 
 > Observatories, may answer these profound questions.
 > 
 > Zoom link:  https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/98932317498
 > 
 > All our past virtual events can be found on our YouTube page. Please subscribe, 
 > you can also find them under the tab 'videos' on our UC Facebook page.  |
 > 
 > Brief Biography
 > 
 > Dr. Ryan Foley is an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz in Astrophysics & 
 > Astronomy. Prof. Foley studies exploding stars, often with a telescope from 
 > the top of a mountain. He is interested in characterizing the many ways a 
 > star can die. He received his PhD from UC  in 2008, was a Clay Fellow 
 > at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and is now a member of 
 > the UC Santa Cruz faculty. He is a Sloan fellow, Packard fellow, and Kavli 
 > fellow.  He was awarded a 2018 NEXTies award in the “Wildcard” category. 
 > His team’s discovery of the First Light from a Gravitational Wave Source was 
 > named the 2017 Science Breakthrough of the Year. He lives close to the beach 
 > and tries to see the ocean every day.