Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Wir wir die Astrophysik zur Untersuchung terrestrischer Fragen nutzen
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.
across the universe.
im ganzen Universum.
die Möglichkeit zur Untersuchung
I have the incredible opportunity
only that, always that,
nur dem mein Leben zu widmen
keeping attention and getting bored
touch or interact with
mit ihren Studienobjekten interagieren.
to figure out why or how it blew up.
zur genaueren Untersuchung geht nicht.
der Raum und Zeit hervorbrachte,
that originated space and time,
of stars and galaxies,
von Sternen und Galaxien
as complex as the entire universe,
das gesamte Universum zu erfoschen,
mathematischer Modelle und Lösungen
at extracting simple models and solutions
noch verwenden?
around towards us?
auf uns selbst richten?
that is exactly what we are doing.
in New York University in 2013,
der Universität New York geschaffen,
of exploding stars.
über explodierende Sterne.
gleichermaßen untersuchen,
the city needs and consumes
in der Stadt messen
Stromnetzes für wachsende Kommunen helfen.
or growing urban environments.
we capture plumes of pollution.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
burning oil for heat.
bei der Ölverbrennung zum Heizen.
with air quality sensors.
mit Sensoren messen.
on each New York City building,
in New York City zu installieren
we built a mathematical model,
wir ein mathematisches Modell,
and track these plumes
dieser Abgaswolken in der Stadt.
white and evanescent;
weiß und dahinschwindend;
dark and persistent --
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
der Luftverschmutzung in den Vierteln.
created transformational solutions.
hat revolutionäre Lösungen geschaffen.
der Astrophysik
we use in astrophysics
angewendet werden,
a California district attorney
fragte uns um Hilfe,
in their jurisdiction.
der Verzögerungen bei Gericht.
or sitting in jail,
in Untersuchungshaft oder im Gefängnis
what kind of cases dragged on,
welche Fälle sich hinziehen
to explore to understand it,
einen gigantischen Datensatz.
in their office to do so.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
für öffentliches Recht
a visual dashboard
der Verfahrensprozesse
the prosecution process.
analyzed their data,
of the process
in their jurisdiction.
thousands of stellar explosions,
stellarer Explosionen gedacht
für alle möglichen Gerichtsbezirke,
to other jurisdictions
domain experts and astrophysicists
und Astrophysikern
in die Stadtentwicklung
to urban science,
back to astrophysics.
zurück in die Astrophysik.
onto interstellar dust.
auf interstellarem Staub.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
weiße, bewegliche Objekte
that detect plumes in city images
für Abgaswolken in Städten
in images of the sky.
am Nachthimmel an.
that interest and excite me,
die mich faszinierten
that can generate new insight
um neue Erkenntnisse zu gewinnen
transformational solutions.
wegweisende Lösungen zu schaffen.
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.
Federica Bianco | Speaker | TED.com