Cosmic detective: how Euclid will shed light onto the dark side of the Universe

Wednesday 24 Jan 2024, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/London

Sotiria Fotopoulou (University of Bristol)

The Euclid Space telescope has been designed to measure, with extreme precision, the cosmological parameters that describe our Universe. The first images from this european telescope have been in the news recently, showcasing the spectacular capabilities of the two instruments.

In this talk, I will first introduce the main goals and my contribution to the Cosmology mission and then highlight my interest in the Legacy aspect of this exceptional dataset. In particular, I summarise the work of the AGN work package and the work on my group, D.I.AN.A., diving into the machine-learning aspect of our work. Finally, I will discuss current challenging analysis problems arising due to the volume of astronomical data and pathways to tackle them with machine-learning.

16:00 → 17:00 Seminar

Speaker: Dr Sotiria Fotopoulou (University of Bristol)