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How we built the world's largest digital camera
Travis Lange (SLAC)
Event Details:
Thursday, August 7, 2025
7:00pm - 8:00pm PDT
Location
In Person and Zoom - SLAC, Kavli Auditorium
Register to watch in person in the Kavli Auditorium, or watch the lecture live on our YouTube page.
The world’s biggest digital camera was built at SLAC, and shipped to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in northern Chile last year. This observatory has a goal no less ambitious than to map the entire the southern sky and all of the galaxies out to 10 billion light years from earth.
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