About this Event
📍 Location: Exact address given in confirmation email
🧠 Lecture: "The Universe: What We Do and Don't Know"
🎤 Speaker: Prof. Vikram Ravi
Join us for a mind-expanding evening as Prof. Vikram Ravi explores what we understand—and what still baffles us—about the cosmos. Humanity has wondered for millennia how we got here; today, astronomers and cosmologists probe the origin, growth, and ultimate fate of the Universe with powerful telescopes on the ground and in space.
Prof. Ravi will guide us through our best current picture: an expanding universe whose growth is accelerating, driven by mysterious dark energy, and structured by invisible dark matter. Yet naming dark energy and dark matter is not the same as understanding them. What happened at the very start of the Universe? What strange physics could be behind these cosmic mysteries? Are our fundamental models themselves a mirage?
Vikram Ravi is a Professor of Astronomy at Caltech whose work ranges from black holes and neutron stars to the emptiest reaches of space. He builds and operates cutting-edge radio telescopes, including the Deep Synoptic Array.
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Agenda
7:30 PM – Doors open: find a seat (open seating!), order food & drinks, and expect a bar line—arriving early is key. Attendees are welcome to come as early as 6:00 PM.
7:55 PM – Host introduction
8:00 PM – Lecture begins
8:45 PM – Audience Q&A
9:00 PM – Have 1:1 time with the speaker, mingle with fellow guests, and order another round
9:30 PM – Wrap up.
Event venue & nearby stays
Silver Lake, Silver Lake, Los Angeles, United States
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