Gallery Tour—Mapping the Infinite with John Mulchaey and Juna Kollmeier

Join John Mulchaey, President, Carnegie Science, and Director, Carnegie Science Observatories, and Juna Kollmeier, Director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, for a discussion of 20th- and 21st-century astronomical discoveries during a walkthrough of the exhibition Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures.

Dr. Mulchaey is President of Carnegie Science, one of the oldest scientific organizations in the country, founded in 1902 and known for its great research in the physical sciences and life sciences. Dr. Mulchaey is also a noted astronomer and director of Carnegie Science Observatories, a department of Carnegie Science. The Observatories is world-renowned for landmark discoveries in every area of modern astronomy–from Edwin Hubble's finding of galaxies beyond our Milky Way, to black holes, the evolution of the cosmos, gravitational waves, and more.

Dr. Kollmeier is a theoretical astrophysicist whose research is focused on cosmic structure formation. She works on a variety of different topics ranging from large-scale structure, the intergalactic medium, black holes, and the making of the Milky Way and its stars and planets. She is the founding Director of the Carnegie Theoretical Astrophysics Center, the former Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and the Director of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the world's first all-sky spectroscopic survey from infrared to optical wavelengths.