An Evening of Meteors, Massive Stars and Citizen Science
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About this event
As part of the 2020 Samhain agus Science festival at Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS), our Astronomy & Astrophysics section will launch its Royal Society-funded Citizen Science meteor-spotting project.
Our researchers will be joined by special guests from TCD and the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies for an evening of meteor-themed discussions which will describe the basics of meteor spotting, how the project links into the larger NEMETODE video-based meteor observation network, what astronomers can learn from the data and how the public can get involved. Two of our recent research interns will also tell us about how they are contributing to the project, from building an online platform for sharing the latest observations to an ambitious machine learning initiative to classify them.
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This will be an outline event presented via Zoom.
Those registered will receive a link to the event 2 hours before the event is due to begin.
Anyone with queries please email communications@dias.ie
Organiser Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies
Organiser of An Evening of Meteors, Massive Stars and Citizen Science
The Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) conducts advanced studies exploring big questions of the 21st century and beyond. Its research gains insights into Celtic society and its legacy; progresses our understanding of our island, our planet and the universe; and deciphers the underpinning mathematical principles of nature.
The Institute leads Ireland’s participation in a number of international and global initiatives that focus on big unanswered questions for mankind.
When it was founded in 1940, DIAS was the world’s second-only institute for advanced studies – and the first such institute in Europe. For 80 years, it has pushed the boundaries of discovery and, today, it is a globally-embedded institution that attracts high-calibre researchers from all over the world in its core disciplines of Celtic Studies, Theoretical Physics, Astrophysics and Geophysics. DIAS Dunsink Observatory is a designated European site of historical significance for physics.
