Dr Bruce Partridge is a legend in the field of cosmology.  He has studied the Cosmic Microwave Background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang for his entire career..  He will guide us through the latest findings on topics such as dark energy, dark matter, the expansion rate of the Universe, and the formation of cosmic structures, bringing the perspective of a scientist who has helped build our current cosmological model from the ground up.

Dr. Revalski is a Staff Scientist on the Wide Field Camera 3 team at the Space Telescope Science Institute.He is involved in instrument calibration for Hubble and his research focuses on understanding the evolution of galaxies by studying the properties of gas within them and measuring the energetic impact of mass outflows from supermassive black holes in active galaxies.

This is an ASLI Club Observing Night, open to everyone!  We set up in the parking lot of the Vanderbilt Museum and the lights are turned off for us for the evening. Bring your telescope or binoculars to our public observing session, or look through our telescopes which we set up for everyone to look through.  We can show you some of the wonderful objects in the night sky during the evening.  We will only have this observing session if there are perfectly clear skies, however.  Check this website the day of this event before coming to the event, just to make sure it has not been cancelled because of weather

This gathering will be held in the Vanderbilt Planetarium lobby.  Bring healthy food  or guilty pleasures and something to drink to share with each other. This is the night that we PARTY, and more importantly have the whole evening available for having nice long conversations with each other, which is actually more fun than the food!