LEXINGTON COMMUNITY EDUCATION presents: Seeing Science: How Visualization Leads to Insight

Scientists use pictures to learn. They make images, graphs, and charts to analyze their data and to communicate their ideas. Today’s scientific breakthroughs often involve tremendous and diverse data sets, and the tools needed to visualize the meaning hidden in those data sets are becoming more and more essential to gaining insight.

Alyssa A. Goodman, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy at Harvard, will highlight her work at the boundary of astrophysics and data visualization. Her talk will be structured as a historical saga, beginning with Galileo, and ending with how virtual reality and immersive tools are changing how we “see” stars forming and arteries hardening.

This event will be held on Wednesday, April 27 at 7:00pm at the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square. The cost is $10.00.

Pre-registration strongly recommended by contacting LCE at 781 862 8043.