Hangout With CERN: Multiplying Dimensions TEDxCERN preview (S03E03)

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In this week's hangout hosts Steve Goldfarb and Sara Wyke, with the help of Kelly Izlar, connect from CERN's Globe of Science and Innovation on the eve of TEDxCERN. They are joined by special guest TEDxCERN speakers... Brittany Wenger, an 18-year-old high-school senior and brilliant young scientist who was the Grand Prize Winner 2012 Google Science Fair for her project "Global Neural Network Cloud Service for Breast Cancer". Chris Lintott who runs the Zooniverse, the world's most successful collection of citizen science projects, and is co-presenter of the BBC's long-running 'Sky at Night'. Becky Parker, MBE, Head of Physics at Simon Langton Grammar School and winner of the first RAS Patrick Moore Medal for her outstanding work teaching astronomy. Her pupils make up 1% of the national cohort of physics undergraduates in the UK. George Church helped initiate the Human Genome Project and is one of the 6 scientists who proposed the The Brain Activity Map Project that's making a splash in scientific circles. ... while rehearsals for the big event the following day take place in the background. Claudia Marcelloni, TEDxCERN Curator and Head also gives hints at what is in store. Recorded live on 2nd May 2013. The hangouts with CERN answer questions received via #askCERN on Twitter and Google+ and via YouTube and Facebook comments. http://www.youtube.com/cerntv http://google.com/+CERN http://www.facebook.com/cern http://twitter.com/cern/ http://cern.ch/hangouts http://ted

Published 2013-05-02 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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