Catch a Dying Star: Astronomy Deep Underground

A public lecture at the Sanford Underground Research Facility

I was thrilled to deliver a public lecture to the community of Lead, South Dakota, at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) visitor centre. SURF is a sister laboratory to SNOLAB and home to the current LZ dark matter search experiment and the MAJORANA demonstrator neutrinoless double beta decay experiment. It is the future home of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE), the largest particle detector that will ever have been constructed.

I presented a lecture entitled “Catch a Dying Star: Astronomy Deep Underground”. You can watch it online here:

And learn more about my lecture and my trip from my recent blog posts:

• “To Catch a Dying Star“
• “To Share a Dying Star“
• “Scientist’s Travelogue: The Sanford Underground Research Facility“