[Lisa_seminaires] [Tea Talk] Pierre-Yves Lablanche (AIMS-South Africa) Nov 3 10:30AM AA6214

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Ven 3 Nov 09:56:59 EDT 2017


This is in 30 minutes! Come on down!

On Tue, Oct 31, 2017, 15:18 Michael Noukhovitch <mnoukhov at gmail.com> wrote:

> This week we have a Post-Doc from AIMS-South Africa, *Pierre-Yves
> Lablanche,* giving a talk on *Nov 3* at* 10:30AM* in room *AA6214*
>
> If anyone is interested in talking with Pierre-Yves about collaborating,
> hearing about different datasets/challenges, or is just interested in
> having a 1:1 chat, email me and I'll set it up!
>
> Sorry for the late email!
> Michael
>
> *KEYWORDS *Astronomy/Astrophysics, Statistical ML, Big Data
>
> *TITLE *Machine Learning for Astronomy
>
> *ABSTRACT*
> Astronomy and astrophysics like many other scientific field is entering
> the big data era.
> Observational instruments such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
> (LSST) and the Square
> Kilometre Array (SKA) will produce hundreds of petabytes of data per year
> supporting many
> scientific projects and existing analysis and processing tools will not be
> sufficient to tackle the
> upcoming “big data” challenge. As a consequence a lot of focus has been
> given to machine
> learning techniques both supervised and unsupervised over the past years.
> In this talk I will present a case study of galaxies identification using
> unsupervised learning and
> discuss the results evaluation as well as the method application to future
> astronomical data. In
> addition I will give insights about some of the latest machine learning
> technique being used and
> developed within the astronomical community.
>
> *BIO*
> Dr. Pierre-Yves Lablanche, born in Saint-Etienne in France, completed a
> BSc. in Physics and Chemistry at the Université Jean Monnet in Saint-
> Etienne in 2006 and a MSc. in Physics at the Univsersité Lyon 1 in 2008.
> He did his Ph.D. in astrophysics between Lyon and the European
> Southern Observatory (Münich, Germany) investigating the dynamics of
> barred galaxies via N-body simulations until 2012.
> The Ph.D. years were followed by two years of work as a scientific
> educator in a local association in Saint-Chamond (France) before
> volunteering to become a tutor at the African Institute for Mathematical
> Sciences (AIMS) in Arusha (Tanzania) in September 2014. A year later
> he joined the AIMS research centre in Cape Town (South Africa) where
> he is still working as a postdoctoral research fellow.
>
> Although his Ph.D. focused on astrophysics, Pierre-Yves nowadays develop
> and applies machine
> learning techniques in various field such as astronomy, anthropology, text
> analysis and
> infrastructure development. Aside from his research he is involved in many
> science outreach
> activities in France, Tanzania and South Africa and collaborates with the
> International Astronomical
> Union Office of Astronomy for Development on various international
> projects. Dr. Lablanche more
> specifically focuses on activities toward minorities and disabled people
> humbly trying to make a
> little difference everywhere he goes, strongly believing that “Education
> is the most powerful
> weapon which you can use to change the world” (Nelson Mandela).
>
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