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) > > ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: UC Observatories <http://www.ucolick.org/~mcampbell> > To: "http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>Sent: Thursday, July > 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.