Seeing the Unseen with the Vera Rubin Telescope

The universe is constantly changing, but much of that activity has been hidden from view — too faint, too fast, or too slow for us to catch. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is about to change that. With its ten-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time, Rubin will map the night sky over and over again, helping us track how galaxies grow, interact, and evolve. It will also capture short-lived events like supernovae and moving objects like asteroids, giving us a fuller picture of the dynamic universe. In this talk, I’ll explore how Rubin will help us better understand the lives of galaxies — and what they can tell us about the history and future of the cosmos.

Elizaveta (Liza) Sazonova is a Rubin Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Waterloo, where she studies how galaxies change and evolve over billions of years. Her work focuses on analyzing extremely large datasets of astronomical images, using advanced image-processing and data-analysis techniques, including machine learning. She is also actively involved in science outreach and enjoys sharing how our understanding of the universe has developed alongside advances in technology and human curiosity.

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