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August – Professor Chris Lintott. ‘Frontiers of Astronomy’ concentrating on what will be happening in the next twenty years both from missions and observations’
18th August 2020 @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday 18th August – ‘Frontiers of Astronomy’ concentrating on what will be happening in the next twenty years both from missions and observations.
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.