Title: Chile-Harvard Innovative Learning Exchange
Five
Harvard graduate students will discuss their recent research trip to
Chile to analyze data from the Dark Energy Camera (DECam). The DECam is
one of the instruments used in the Dark Energy Survey (DES),
an international effort “designed to probe the origin of the
accelerating universe and help uncover the nature of dark energy."
Collaborating with students at the University of Chile, Harvard students
were separated into small teams and ask to identify and classify
objects as galaxies, stars or asteroids.
Designed by IACS Scientific Program Director and Lecturer Pavlos Protopapas,
the two-week Chile-Harvard Innovative Learning Exchange Program is in
its second year and aims to provide students the experience of working
on international teams with noisy and imperfect data sets.
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