The 2025 CIERA Annual Public Lecture is on the evening of October 3, at Ryan Auditorium in Northwestern University’s Technological Institute. This year’s speaker is Dr. Chris Stubbs the Samuel C. Moncher Professor of Physics and of Astronomy at Harvard University. Professor Stubbs was the inaugural Project Scientist for Rubin Observatory and will speak on the Observatory’s development, early telescope images and science, and the decade-long survey of the sky that is about to commence.