From Astronomy to Zoology, scientists are struggling to make the best of the enormous datasets the digital revolution has brought. Rapid advances in machine learning have ushered in new opportunities, but Sky at Night presenter Chris Lintott will argue that there’s still a place for all of us to contribute. Bringing experience of more than a decade at the helm of Zooniverse, the world’s most successful platform for ‘citizen science’, Lintott will explain how you can discover a planet – and what discoveries might lie ahead. There will also be pictures of penguins.

The date of this event changed from 29 October 2020 to 25 February 2021, and then again to September 2021.

This event lasts one hour

Speaker

Chris Lintott

New College, University of Oxford
Zooniverse

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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.