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SUMMARY:CIS - "Get to know your neighbors" Seminar series - Prof. Frédér
 ic Courbin
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Frédéric Courbin\n \nTitle: Intelligent systems for a
 strophysics and cosmology\n\nAbstract: The next decade will see transforma
 tional moves in observational astrophysics and cosmology\, with a clear tr
 ansition from very specific “pointed” observations to whole-sky survey
 s spanning the whole electromagnetic spectrum and with the additional time
  dimension\, not to mention gravitational waves! I will present this new p
 aradigm with enhanced discovery space\, show its benefits\, but also illus
 trates the challenges it poses in terms of data acquisition and data proce
 ssing. The complexity of the new type of data and new type of observatorie
 s require to design\, build and operate autonomous networks of telescopes 
 around the globe\, i.e. intelligent systems will the core of astronomical 
 research in the very near future.\n\nBio: Frédéric Courbin obtained his 
 PhD at the connection between image processing and cosmology at the Univer
 sity of Liège (Belgium) before moving for 3 years to Chile which hosts mo
 st of the main astronomical facilities in the world. He then returned to E
 urope with a Marie Curie Fellowship and is now an adjunct professor at the
  laboratory of astrophysics.\n\nFred is known for the development of image
  deconvolution techniques that preserve the photometric properties of astr
 onomical data\, a work that won him the De Boelpaepe prize in image proces
 sing of the Royal Academy of Science of Belgium. Thanks to these technique
 s and other ones\, he is studying the natural phenomenon of gravitational 
 lensing to measure the expansion rate of the universe\, a topic currently 
 under intense debate and possibly implying new physics. This work was ackn
 owledged with an ERC Advanced grant (COSMICLENS) in 2018. Fred also holds 
 key positions in the ESA Euclid mission that will map the whole extragalac
 tic sky from space from 2022 to 2030. In 2020\, he was granted the builder
  status in the Euclid consortium\, acknowledging his long-term effort and 
 leading roles that led to the adoption of the mission by ESA in 2011.\nThe
  Center for Intelligent Systems at EPFL (CIS) is a collaboration among I
 C\, SB\, STI and ENAC that brings together researchers working on differe
 nt aspects of Intelligent Systems.\n \nIn order to promote exchanges amon
 g researchers and encourage the creation of new\, collaborative projects\,
  CIS is organizing a "Get to know your neighbors" series. Each seminar wil
 l consist of one short overview presentation geared to the general public 
 at EPFL.\n \nThe CIS seminar will take place live on Zoom: https://epfl.z
 oom.us/j/81731023605\n\n \nMonday\, 23th November 2020 from 3:15 to 4:15 
 pm\n\n\nNB: Video recordings of the seminars will be made available on our
  website and published on our social media pages
LOCATION:Zoom https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81731023605 https://epfl.zoom.us/j/81
 731023605
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