Sounding the Stars with Genetic Algorithms

[michalchik]

Where are these tech talks held?

[moseskiiza]

in google (googleplex), they have a sort of campus where they invite brains to speak. excellent source of education/inspiration

[michalchik]

@moseskiiza I meant what city

[moseskiiza]

i apologize. i misunderstood your question

[michalchik]

@moseskiiza No problem, your answer actually helped, because I went and looked up Googleplex.

[ncarucar]

So glad this GoogleTechTalk on Travis Metcalfe's adventurous interdisciplinary astronomy is available. We asked Travis to talk a bit about his scientific interests and how he got started on his research career. You'll find that interview in the "People Spotlights" on UCAR's website. We've also started a new NCAR + UCAR Science channel on YouTube (ncarucar). Let us know what you think.

[ouijaboy666]

i have four monitors and i can watch four different videos at once. Its supposed to be impossible to concentrate on more than one at a time, but believe me you can train yourself to do it. I'm trying to get it up to 10 but so far i got up to 6 for about 2 mins then i lost it.

[moseskiiza]

you're crazy, i find it hard to concentrate on one video, let alone four!

[Provoost]

Thanks for a clear introduction into asteroseismology. It brought up good memories from an astrophysics and unrelated computational seismology course course that I followed some time ago. Now I know how they are related...

Also thanks for introducing (at the end) the Pale Blue Dot project. Maybe I'll adopt a star...

[BradNeuberg]

Travis, it was great having you at Google! Thanks for making the trip and speaking on your research.

Best, Brad Neuberg

[pdxyota]

I'm extremely excited by this discovery, and on a side note Travis YOU have a great manner of delivering fairly complicated information to a broad audience.

[fortheloveofLDS]

First comment, FTW. ^^

This sounds like an interesting study. I hope all goes well with the Kepler mission.

~Maddie