Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
ફેડરિકા બાયન્કો: પૃથ્વીની સમસ્યાઓનો અભ્યાસ કરવા માટે આપણે એસ્ટ્રોફિઝિક્સનો ઉપયોગ કેવી રીતે કરીએ છીએ
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
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across the universe.
I have the incredible opportunity
only that, always that,
keeping attention and getting bored
touch or interact with
to figure out why or how it blew up.
that originated space and time,
of stars and galaxies,
as complex as the entire universe,
at extracting simple models and solutions
around towards us?
that is exactly what we are doing.
in New York University in 2013,
of exploding stars.
the city needs and consumes
or growing urban environments.
we capture plumes of pollution.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
burning oil for heat.
with air quality sensors.
on each New York City building,
we built a mathematical model,
and track these plumes
white and evanescent;
dark and persistent --
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
created transformational solutions.
we use in astrophysics
a California district attorney
in their jurisdiction.
or sitting in jail,
what kind of cases dragged on,
to explore to understand it,
in their office to do so.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
a visual dashboard
the prosecution process.
analyzed their data,
of the process
in their jurisdiction.
thousands of stellar explosions,
to other jurisdictions
domain experts and astrophysicists
to urban science,
back to astrophysics.
onto interstellar dust.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
that detect plumes in city images
in images of the sky.
that interest and excite me,
that can generate new insight
transformational solutions.
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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