eSI Public Lecture: "Next Generation Sky Surveys" by Bob Mann

07 July, 2009 04:00 PM - 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

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Dr Bob Mann Institute for Astronomy University of Edinburgh The e-Science Institute is delighted to host a public lecture by Dr Bob Mann. The public lecture is open to all interested parties in academia and industry. There is no need to register for this event and those attending the lecture are invited to join us for tea and coffee at 17:00. This Public Lecture is scheduled to be webcast live. For further information see below.

Dr Bob Mann

Abstract

Systematic surveys of large fractions of the sky, undertaken in different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, are becoming an increasingly important part of observational astronomy. Thanks to advances in detector technologies, astronomers can now survey the sky ever faster, producing ever larger volumes of data. The next generation of sky surveys - due to start operations within the next five to ten years - will represent a substantial increase in scale, taking survey astronomy into the Petabyte regime. This lecture will outline some of the scientific motivations for these surveys, and introduce some of the computational challenges that must be met for them to succeed.

Biography

Bob Mann is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh. He is an established member of the e-Science community in Edinburgh, having been one of the first Research Leaders at the National e-Science Centre (from 2002 to 2004) and being the Programme Director of the e-Science MSc since its inception.

Bob works in the Wide-Field Astronomy Unit, in the University’s Institute for Astronomy, which curates and publishes sky survey data on behalf of the astronomical community in the UK, and, increasingly, across Europe. His own research interests centre on the use of sky survey data to address problems in cosmology and galaxy evolution, and on the application of computer science techniques to astronomy.

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