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Exploring cosmic wonder
Dr. Mark Subbarao, Director, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA, presented a Cosmic Wonder programme at B M Birla Auditorium on Monday. Mark Subba Rao is the President of the International Planetarium Society.
Hyderabad: Dr. Mark Subbarao, Director, Adler Planetarium, Chicago, USA, presented a Cosmic Wonder programme at B M Birla Auditorium on Monday. Mark Subba Rao is the President of the International Planetarium Society. He is also the Director of the Adler Planetarium's Space Visualisation Group. He received his bachelor's degree in engineering physics from Lehigh University and his Ph.D. The John Hopkins University in astrophysics. His Ph.D. thesis concerned the evolution of galaxies.
At the University of Chicago, he worked on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make the largest 3D map of the universe. He was a developer of the survey's spectroscopic pipeline which classified and measured their distances to one million deep sky objects. Asteroid 170009 Subbarao is named after him in recognition of his work on the survey. Mark is an author of more than 100 scientific publications.
In 2003, he joined the staff of the Adler Planetarium. He has led the development of major exhibition galleries such as The Universe: A Walk Through Time and Space and the Space Visualisation Laboratory. He has also produced, written and directed a number of fulldome planetarium shows. These include Welcome to the Universe, Cosmic Wonder and Planet Nine.
His visualisations have been widely shown in print and television and have received major international awards (such as the NSF Vizzie in 2011 and 2016). In 2016 he was elected President of the International Planetarium Society, a term he began on 2019.
