Date: Friday, March 6, 2015
Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138
Speakers: Diana Zhang, Sabrina Zhou, Xufei Wang, Lyla Fadden, Kim Minjae
Time: Lunch 12:30pm; Talk 1-1:30pm
Title: Chile-Harvard Innovative Learning Exchange
Abstract: Five Harvard graduate students will discuss their recent research trip to Chile
to analyze data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). The DECam is one of the instruments
used in the Dark Energy
Survey<http://www.darkenergysurvey.org/> (DES), an
international effort “designed to probe the origin of the accelerating universe" and
help uncover the nature of dark energy." Collaborating with students at the
University of Chile, Harvard students were separated into small teams and ask to identify
and classify objects as galaxies, stars or asteroids.
Designed by IACS Scientific Program Director and Lecturer Pavlos
Protopapas<http://iacs.seas.harvard.edu/people/pavlos-protopapas>as>, the two-week
Chile-Harvard Innovative Learning Exchange Program is in its second year and aims to
provide students the experience of working on international teams with noisy and imperfect
data sets.
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
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