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Tuesday 21st September 2021
Professor Chris Lintott
Where, what and who: Progress in Astronomy’s Big Questions
In this talk, Chris Lintott (BBC Sky at Night, University of Oxford) takes a fresh look at the Universe around us, using the latest data and discoveries to explore how we’re doing in the biggest questions of all – what did the Earth come to be, how did the Universe begin…and is there anyone out there?
Professor Chris Lintott is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Oxford, where he is also a research fellow at New College, working on topics from galaxy evolution, transient detection and machine learning. As Principal Investigator of the Zooniverse, he leads a team who run the world’s most successful citizen science projects, allowing more than a million people to discover planets, transcribe ancient papyri or explore the Serengeti. A passionate advocate of the public understanding of science, he is best known as co-presenter of the BBC’s long running Sky at Night program. His book, ‘The Crowd and the Cosmos’, is now available from Oxford University Press.