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Perimeter Institute brings great thinkers from around the world to Canada to share their ideas on a wide variety of interesting and topical subjects. These lectures and debates are aimed at non-specialists. No mathematical or scientific knowledge is necessary or assumed. Each event is explicitly tailored for the general public and everyone is welcome to attend. Public Lectures are held at Waterloo Collegiate Institute. See Location and Parking for details. Attendance is free, but advance tickets are required. Due to the overwhelming response to past lectures, tickets will be honoured until 6:45 pm only. If you have not arrived by 6:45 pm your reservation may be filled by guests on our waiting list, and you may be asked to join the end of the waiting list. For other outreach programs available to the public, check out our Quantum to Cosmos: Ideas for the Future festival. Tickets available starting at 9:00 am on the specified date, and sell out very quickly.
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The Science of Galaxy Zoo, or What 250 000 Astronomers Can Tell Us About the Universe |  | Chris Lintott
April 7, 2010 at 7 pm Abstract
Since its launch in 2007, the website Galaxy Zoo has become the largest astronomical collaboration in history, involving more than 250,000 volunteers in classifying galaxies. Humans outperform computers at this kind of visual classification, and the results from Galaxy Zoo have been spectacular. As well as reviewing the intimate connections between the delicate process of galaxy formation and the evolution of our Universe, this talk will include a review of the weird and wonderful objects identified by Galaxy Zoo users and a few tales from the ups and downs of citizen science. Chris Lintott is a researcher at the University of Oxford, where he is also a junior research fellow of Somerville College. As principal investigator of the Galaxy Zoo project, he has been responsible for turning the efforts of more than 250,000 galaxy classifying volunteers into science. Galaxy Zoo has led to a suite of projects in fields ranging from classics to zoology under the aegis of the international Citizen Science Alliance. Chris is perhaps best known as the co-presenter of the long-running BBC show the 'Sky at Night' and as co-author of the book Bang! with Patrick Moore and Queen guitarist Brian May, now available in 14 different languages. He also writes regularly for the Times of London and in various other outlets both online and in print; he can be found on twitter @chrislintott. Tickets available starting March 22, 2010. |
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