Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Comment on utilise l'astrophysique pour étudier les problèmes sur Terre
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
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across the universe.
dans l'univers entier.
et je me lasse facilement.
j'aie l'opportunité incroyable
I have the incredible opportunity
only that, always that,
et toujours cela,
keeping attention and getting bored
les transformer en un atout ?
touch or interact with
toucher ou interagir
to figure out why or how it blew up.
pour comprendre le phénomène.
et des vidéos du ciel.
that originated space and time,
de l'espace et du temps,
des étoiles et des galaxies,
of stars and galaxies,
propre système solaire,
des images du ciel.
as complex as the entire universe,
aussi complexe qu'est l'univers entier,
at extracting simple models and solutions
des modèles et des solutions simples
vastes et complexes.
avec cette expertise ?
around towards us?
la caméra vers nous ?
that is exactly what we are doing.
c'est précisément ce que nous faisons.
in New York University in 2013,
à l'Université de New York en 2013
des photos de la ville
comme celle des étoiles.
of exploding stars.
des étoiles qui explosent.
de la même façon,
the city needs and consumes
la consommation et les besoins d'énergie
or growing urban environments.
des zones urbaines en pleine expansion.
we capture plumes of pollution.
on voit des panaches de pollution.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
burning oil for heat.
qui brûlent du pétrole pour se chauffer.
avec des capteurs
with air quality sensors.
on each New York City building,
sur chaque immeuble new-yorkais
d'un million d'appareils,
we built a mathematical model,
on a conçu un modèle mathématique,
and track these plumes
qui peut détecter et suivre ces fumées
white and evanescent;
dark and persistent --
sombres et persistantes --
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
du quartier aux législateurs.
created transformational solutions.
a créé des solutions de transformation.
we use in astrophysics
utilisées en astrophysique
types de données,
a California district attorney
un procureur de Californie
in their jurisdiction.
des poursuites de son tribunal.
or sitting in jail,
conditionnelle ou en prison
parfois plusieurs années.
what kind of cases dragged on,
quels dossiers s'éternisaient.
to explore to understand it,
un énorme ensemble de données
ni les outils pour ce faire.
in their office to do so.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
professeur de politique publique,
a visual dashboard
un tableau de bord visuel
the prosecution process.
les processus juridiques.
analyzed their data,
les données nous-mêmes,
of the process
in their jurisdiction.
au sein de la justice.
thousands of stellar explosions,
les explosions stellaires,
judiciaires ont été classés.
s'appliquer à d'autres juridictions
to other jurisdictions
domain experts and astrophysicists
et astrophysiciens
to urban science,
pour les sciences urbaines
back to astrophysics.
en retour en astrophysique.
onto interstellar dust.
sur la poussière interstellaire.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
blancs, évanescents et mobiles,
la fumée sur les images urbaines
that detect plumes in city images
in images of the sky.
dans les images du ciel.
that interest and excite me,
et m'enthousiasme,
en un véritable atout.
that can generate new insight
et donc le potentiel d'avoir une idée
transformational solutions.
de transformation inattendues.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Federica Bianco - Cross-disciplinary scientistTED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still.
Why you should listen
Astrophysicist, professor, professional boxer and TED Fellow Federica Bianco studies stellar explosions, using the same methodologies to understand urban and social problems. She uses data-science to both study the universe and tackle problems on earth, like pollution in New York City, prosecutorial justice and how city lights can create resilient electric grids and.
Bianco splits her time as a professor at the University of Delaware in the Department of Physics and Astrophysics (where she runs a lab focusing on light curves), the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration and the Urban Observatory, where she uses her astrophysics skills to study urban problems. She is also the coordinator the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Science Collaboration, a network of more than 1,500 scientists. The LSST, under construction in Chile, will go online in 2023 to survey the night sky and image the southern hemisphere sky at unprecedented depth and resolution. The collaboration will study everything about it, from the thousands of changes it will discover in the sky every night to billions of stars and galaxies, many that have never been seen before.
Bianco has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, was a Smithsonian predoctoral and James Arthur postdoctoral fellow and was the recipient of a Department of Energy "Innovative Development in Energy-Related Applied Science" grant. When she isn't doing science, you will find her in the boxing ring, where she has made a name for herself as "The MadScientist." She is known for fighting her heart out both in and out of the ring.
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