Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Come usiamo l'astrofisica per studiare i problemi terrestri
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
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nell'universo.
across the universe.
I have the incredible opportunity
io abbia l'incredibile opportunità
only that, always that,
e mi fa sentire in gabbia.
keeping attention and getting bored
la noia e il mantenere l'attenzione
touch or interact with
o interagire con le cose che studia.
una stella in laboratorio
to figure out why or how it blew up.
that originated space and time,
allo spazio e al tempo,
delle stelle e delle galassie,
of stars and galaxies,
studiando le immagini del cielo.
as complex as the entire universe,
come l'intero universo,
nell'estrarre modelli e soluzioni semplici
at extracting simple models and solutions
con questa competenza?
around towards us?
la fotocamera verso di noi?
that is exactly what we are doing.
all'Urban Observatory.
in New York University in 2013,
all'Università di New York nel 2013,
come se fossero immagini di stelle.
da sorgenti astronomiche,
of exploding stars.
delle stelle che esplodono.
l'energia consumata e necessaria alla città
the city needs and consumes
una rete elettrica robusta
or growing urban environments.
degli ambienti urbani in crescita.
we capture plumes of pollution.
catturiamo sbuffi di gas inquinanti.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
serra proviene da edifici come questo,
burning oil for heat.
per il riscaldamento.
con rilevatori della qualità dell'aria.
with air quality sensors.
on each New York City building,
su ogni edificio di New York,
provenienti da un milione di monitor.
we built a mathematical model,
abbiamo costruito un modello matematico,
and track these plumes
e monitorare queste emissioni
white and evanescent;
bianchi ed evanescenti;
dark and persistent --
scuri e persistenti--
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
una mappa dell'inquinamento della zona.
created transformational solutions.
ha creato soluzioni trasformative.
we use in astrophysics
che usiamo in astrofisica
ad ogni tipo di dati,
a California district attorney
un procuratore distrettuale in California
in their jurisdiction.
nella sua giurisdizione.
or sitting in jail,
o in carcere,
a volte per anni.
what kind of cases dragged on,
si protraevano,
to explore to understand it,
da analizzare per capirlo,
in their office to do so.
per farlo.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
di scienze politiche Angela Hawken,
una rappresentazione visiva dei dati
a visual dashboard
potessero capire meglio
the prosecution process.
analyzed their data,
i loro dati,
of the process
se la lunghezza dei procedimenti
in their jurisdiction.
nella loro giurisdizione.
migliaia di esplosioni stellari,
thousands of stellar explosions,
che può essere applicato
to other jurisdictions
indagare sui propri pregiudizi.
domain experts and astrophysicists
tra esperti del settore e astrofisici
la qualità della vita delle persone.
to urban science,
all'urbanistica,
back to astrophysics.
lo porto in astrofisica.
onto interstellar dust.
sulla polvere interstellare.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
bianchi, evanescenti, in movimento,
that detect plumes in city images
rilevano gli sbuffi nelle immagini urbane
in images of the sky.
nelle immagini del cielo.
that interest and excite me,
e mi entusiasma,
in una risorsa.
that can generate new insight
che può generare una nuova visione
transformational solutions.
inaspettate e trasformative.
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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