June 28th, 2024 8:30pm
Astronomy Speaker: Dr. Stefano Valenti
Lecture Information
Dr. Stefano Valenti (UC Davis)
The Golden Era of Time Domain Astrophysics: New Explosions and Their Origins
Dr. Stefano Valenti is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy at UC Davis. He received his Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Ferrara, Italy in 2008. Before joining UC Davis, he was an assistant project scientist at UC Santa Barbara and the Los Cumbres Observatory and was a National Institute of Astrophysics Fellow. Dr. Valenti is currently focusing his research on supernovae, particularly the early evolution of these explosions by using a network of robotic telescopes to observe 1000 nearby galaxies every night to discover and monitor supernova. In the early hours to days after explosion, supernovae provide clues to how they explode and what their progenitor star systems are. He has also conducted research in cosmology, AGN reverberation mapping, astronomical surveys and time domain phenomena.
Ticket Information
Tickets can be purchased at Eventbrite starting April 17, 2024 at Noon.
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More information about tickets and pricing is available here.
Program Information
| 7:30 pm | Doors Open | Brief Telescope Visits |
| 8:30 pm | Science Talk, Lecture Hall | History Talk, Great Refractor Telescope Dome |
| 9:30 pm | Science Talk (repeated), Lecture Hall | Telescope Viewings |
| 10:30 pm | History Talk (repeated), Lecture Hall | Telescope Viewings |
| 1:00 am | Doors Close |
Gift shop is open from 7:30pm until 11:30pm.
More general information about the event is available at Evening with the Stars.