Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Como usar a astrofísica para estudar problemas terrestres
TED Fellow Federica Bianco is a cross-disciplinary scientist who can't stay still. Full bio
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across the universe.
pelo universo.
I have the incredible opportunity
ter a oportunidade incrível
only that, always that,
apenas isso, sempre isso,
keeping attention and getting bored
em manter a atenção e aborrecer-me
numa vantagem?
touch or interact with
ou interagir com as coisas que estuda.
uma estrela num laboratório
to figure out why or how it blew up.
that originated space and time,
o tempo e o espaço,
of stars and galaxies,
das estrelas e galáxias,
sistema solar,
através de imagens do espaço.
as complex as the entire universe,
tão complexo como o universo,
at extracting simple models and solutions
em extrair modelos e soluções simples
com este conhecimento?
around towards us?
para nós mesmos?
that is exactly what we are doing.
é exactamente isso que fazemos.
in New York University in 2013,
em Nova Iorque, em 2013,
das coisas que fazemos:
como estrelas.
durante um período de tempo
of exploding stars.
da explosão das estrelas.
da mesma forma,
the city needs and consumes
or growing urban environments.
do crescente ambiente urbano.
we capture plumes of pollution.
captamos névoas de poluição.
na cidade de Nova Iorque
of greenhouse gases in New York City
burning oil for heat.
que queimam petróleo para aquecimento.
com sensores de qualidade do ar.
with air quality sensors.
on each New York City building,
em cada edifício da cidade de Nova Iorque,
we built a mathematical model,
construímos um modelo matemático,
and track these plumes
e rastrear essas névoas,
white and evanescent;
brancas e passageiras;
dark and persistent --
negro e persistente,
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
um mapa da poluição dos bairros.
created transformational solutions.
criou soluções transformativas.
we use in astrophysics
que usamos na astrofísica
a todos os tipos de dados,
a California district attorney
um procurador do distrito da Califórnia
in their jurisdiction.
nos processos da sua jurisdição.
or sitting in jail,
ou na cadeia,
às vezes durante anos.
what kind of cases dragged on,
que tipo de processos se arrastavam
to explore to understand it,
para explorar e perceber,
in their office to do so.
nos seus escritórios para o fazer.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
Angela Hawken,
a visual dashboard
pela primeira vez, um painel visual
the prosecution process.
e compreenderem o processo de acusação.
analyzed their data,
of the process
se a duração do processo
in their jurisdiction.
na sua jurisdição.
thousands of stellar explosions,
milhares de explosões estelares,
de processos de tribunal.
to other jurisdictions
por outras jurisdições
a explorar os seus preconceitos.
domain experts and astrophysicists
de domínio e astrofísicos
a qualidade de vida.
to urban science,
para a ciência urbana.
back to astrophysics.
para a astrofísica.
onto interstellar dust.
convertidos em poeiras interestelares.
estes reflexos aparecem
as white, evanescent, moving features,
com características passageiras
that detect plumes in city images
nas imagens da cidade
in images of the sky.
em imagens do céu.
that interest and excite me,
que me interessam e entusiasmam,
numa mais valia.
that can generate new insight
uma perspectiva única
transformational solutions.
soluções transformadoras.
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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