[Astro] Seminar 23/10/2024

[Jesse Golden-Marx]

Hi Everyone,
      We just wanted to remind you all about our seminar this afternoon with Prof. Haida Liang.  We look forward to having you join.

Cheers,
Jesse and Luke
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From: Jesse Golden-Marx (staff)
Sent: Monday, October 21, 2024 10:45 AM
To: astro at nottingham.ac.uk <astro at nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: Seminar 23/10/2024

Hi Everyone,
      This week's seminar will be by Prof. Haida Liang (NTU).  Haida will be arriving on campus a little after 3pm, so we will only have the regular seminar and wine and cheese.  Haida's talk is titled:


>From Astronomy to Archaeology: multimodal imaging and remote sensing for the study of the history of the Silk Road and much more…


The abstract is provided below.  Though this is a bit of a change from our regular topics, we hope that you'll all enjoy learning about some of the other fascinating things you can do with astronomy techniques!


Cheers,

Jesse and Luke


Abstract:

Astronomy studies the history of the universe while archaeology studies the history of the human past. The talk will explore the benefits of interdisciplinary research from fundamental science (e.g. Astrophysics) to applied science and Engineering and how applications to cultural heritage materials can inspire the development of instruments that are useful for industrial monitoring. Inspired by ideas from Astronomy, various remote sensing and interferometric imaging techniques have been developed for cultural heritage material analysis to study history and help art conservation. As the volume of data collected is becoming too large to manage using traditional image analysis methods, machine learning methods are developed to analyse data from automated high resolution large scale surveys of wall paintings such as those in cave temples along the Silk Road. This talk will discuss some of the unexpected contribution of astronomy to the field of heritage science including conservation science and archaeological science.



Jesse Golden-Marx, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate

Centre for Astronomy & Particle Theory
School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Nottingham
University Park, Nottingham, UK
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