Federica Bianco: How we use astrophysics to study earthbound problems
Federica Bianco: Cum utilizăm astrofizica pentru a studia problemele Terrei
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
am incredibila oportunitate
only that, always that,
întotdeauna asta,
keeping attention and getting bored
touch or interact with
și nu pot interacționa
to figure out why or how it blew up.
în laborator
that originated space and time,
care a creat spațiul și timpul,
of stars and galaxies,
astrelor și galaxiilor,
as complex as the entire universe,
atât de complex ca întregul univers,
at extracting simple models and solutions
în a extrage modele și soluții simple
cu o astfel de expertiză?
around towards us?
that is exactly what we are doing.
in New York University in 2013,
la Universitatea din New York în 2013,
pe care le facem.
of exploding stars.
the city needs and consumes
are nevoie orașul și cât consumă,
or growing urban environments.
unui mediu urban în dezvoltare.
we capture plumes of pollution.
surprindem nori de poluare.
of greenhouse gases in New York City
burning oil for heat.
ce folosește combustibil pentru încălzire.
with air quality sensors.
cu senzori atmosferici.
on each New York City building,
instalat pe fiecare clădire din New York,
de la un milion de monitoare.
we built a mathematical model,
am creat un model matematic,
and track these plumes
și supraveghea acești nori
white and evanescent;
dark and persistent --
with a map of neighborhood pollution.
created transformational solutions.
a creat soluții transformaționale.
we use in astrophysics
a California district attorney
un procuror din California
in their jurisdiction.
din jurisdicția lor.
or sitting in jail,
sau în închisoare,
what kind of cases dragged on,
ce fel de cazuri sunt întârziate,
to explore to understand it,
de explorat și înțeles,
in their office to do so.
public policy professor Angela Hawken,
profesor de politică publică Angela Hawken
a visual dashboard
a creat mai întâi un panou vizual
the prosecution process.
să înțeleagă mai bine procesul acuzării.
analyzed their data,
am analizat și noi datele lor,
of the process
in their jurisdiction.
în jurisdicția respectivă.
thousands of stellar explosions,
miile de explozii stelare,
to other jurisdictions
ce poate fi aplicat și altor domenii
explicarea contradicțiilor.
domain experts and astrophysicists
între experți și astrofizicieni
to urban science,
de astrofizician în știința urbană
back to astrophysics.
înapoi în astrofizică.
onto interstellar dust.
în praful interstelar.
as white, evanescent, moving features,
par albe, translucide, în mișcare,
that detect plumes in city images
cu care am detectat aburii
in images of the sky.
în imaginile cerului.
that interest and excite me,
care mă interesează și mă provoacă,
într-o calitate.
that can generate new insight
unică de a genera noi introspecții
transformational solutions.
neașteptate și transformaționale.
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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