Lick Observatory Music of the Spheres Lecture and Music Series - SOLD OUT

Dr. Brad Holden grew up in suburban Maryland always wanting to be an astronomer. After receiving his Ph.D from the University of Chicago in Astronomy and Astrophysics, he decided to move to a place more conducive to watching the night sky, and has lived in California for most of his adult life.

Dr. Holden works as a research astronomer at the University of California Observatories headquarters at UC Santa Cruz, and so managed to realize his childhood dream. He is interested in a diverse range of topics. He has been part of teams searching of the most massive clusters of galaxies in the universe using the NASA Chandra satellite. He was a member of the team in charge of delivering the Advanced Camera for Surveys for the Hubble Space Telescope, and used that instrument to measure the size and shapes of galaxies across cosmic time.

Currently he is part of team finding galaxies at the edge of the observable universe using the Hubble Space Telescope while, at the same time, runs the Automated Planet Finding telescope at Lick Observatory.

Speaker: Dr. Brad Holden

Performers: Black Cedar Trio