Benjamin Dean Lecture - Making Sense of the Dynamic Universe in the Synoptic Survey Era

Viewing the night sky with sufficient sensitivity, everything in the Universe appears to change in brightness and position. To understand this rich diversity of time-variable sources, astronomers must tame a data deluge, soon to be explored by projects such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Scientists will need to move beyond the point where they themselves can be directly involved in discovery, classification, and even the inference processes. Bloom will discuss this abstraction of the traditional role of astronomer, an emerging revolution and our efforts at extracting novel science from large amounts of data.

Speaker: Prof. Joshua S. Bloom, University of California, Berkeley

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