Seminář ÚTFA: Michal Bursa

The Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics invites you to the department seminary. The speaker of the seminar will be the director of Astronomical Institute of Czech Academy of Science:

Michal Bursa: Big Data Astronomy

Advanced computing techniques, deep learning methods and artificial intelligence, which have been developing rapidly in recent years, are affecting a wide range of fields, not excluding astronomy. Astronomers are using these tools to process and analyse increasingly large datasets from earth-bound telescopes and space missions, and with projects such as VRO/LSST, SKA and Euclid, data astronomy is becoming an important enabler for the discovery of exciting new objects and a deeper understanding of the patterns of nature. The sheer volume of data being acquired is so breathtaking that the term " astronomically big data" takes on a whole new dimension.