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• Our Universe Revealed: October 2025

  Speaker TBC
  Tuesday October 7th 2025 - 6:30 pm ET
  Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St. Joseph County Public Library

  Stay tuned for additional details. 

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• The 2025 Nobel Prizes: Why They Matter

  Speaker TBC
  Tuesday November 4th 2025 - 6:30 pm ET
  Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St. Joseph County Public Library

  The 2025 Nobel prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Medicine will be announced in early October. Faculty from the University of Notre Dame and Indiana University South Bend will provide background on understanding the research that led to receiving one of the highest recognitions in science at an international level. This will be a discussion panel and opportunity to ask questions of people with expertise in these areas of research.

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• Our Universe Revealed: December 2025

  Jonathan Crass, Instrument Scientist, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University and founder of the Our Universe Revealed Lecture Series
  Tuesday December 2nd 2025 - 6:30 pm ET
  Leighton Auditorium, Main Branch, St. Joseph County Public Library

  Jonathan Crass develops astronomical instruments, specializing in those with diffraction-limited performance for the study of exoplanets. In this talk, he will discuss the iLocator program. Dr. Crass currently serves as the Co-PI of the iLocater program and is leading its completion and delivery to the Large Binocular Telescope, Arizona, US. The instrument is a next generation extremely precise radial velocity spectrograph designed to study exoplanets in orbit around low-mass stars.

  Speaker: Jonathan Crass, Instrument Scientist, Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University and founder of the Our Universe Revealed Lecture Series

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