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Dr. Michael Blanton on Open Data, Galaxy Surveys, and the Future of Astronomy (EP 43)

Dr. Michael Blanton on Open Data, Galaxy Surveys, and the Future of Astronomy (EP 43)

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Hosted by Lester Nare and Krishna Choudhary, this episode is the
second interview in our ongoing collaboration series with Carnegie
Observatories. Krishna sits down with Dr. Michael Blanton, the new
Director of the Carnegie Observatories, for a wide-ranging
conversation on how astronomy became one of the most data-rich
sciences, how the Sloan Digital Sky Survey helped change the
culture around open data, what the next era of astronomical data
science and AI could look like, and one of the galaxy mysteries
Blanton still wants to solve: why the most massive galaxies in the
universe stop forming stars.The conversation starts with Blanton’s
Princeton roots and his work connected to the Sloan Digital Sky
Survey, then moves into the culture of public astronomical data,
the NYU Value-Added Galaxy Catalog, Vera Rubin Observatory,
Carnegie’s role in the future of astronomy, the Magellan
telescopes, astronomical archives, MaNGA and eBOSS, galaxy
formation, dark matter, and even the science behind the black hole
visualizations in Interstellar.Audio note: this was one of our
first out-of-studio interviews, and there are a few minor audio
issues in parts of the conversation. We appreciate your patience,
and we’ll be better prepared for future field interviews.Also, if
you’re in Los Angeles, Krishna will be giving a talk at Exploring
Physics at UCLA, hosted by UCLA’s physics outreach organization
Continuum, on Saturday, June 6 at the Fowler Museum. His talk runs
from 9:30–10:30 AM.Register here: https://luma.com/3al1hj5h