Science Cafe: 'Finding a Needle in a Stack of Needles'

When: February 09, 2017 6:30pm

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will have the largest camera of any telescope in the world, and will see deeper into space than any previous survey telescope. LSST will take 1000 pictures per night of the night sky, and in each of those pictures, there will be anywhere from 10,000-50,000 "alerts" identified. The challenge confronting our team of astronomers and computer scientists is to discern the truly interesting occurrences, perhaps 100 per night, from this torrent of alerts. Of course, every astronomer has a different definition of interesting. What to do?

Panel: 

  • Rick Snodgrass, professor of computer science
  • John Kececioglu, associate professor of computer science
  • Thomas Matheson, associate astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
  • Abi Saha, astronomer at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)

Audience: All
Audience size: Large (101-500)

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Barbara Kahn-Sales College of Science

Requests for disability-related accommodations should be directed to the event's primary contact: Barbara Kahn-Sales