President's Frontier Award Lecture: Brice Ménard

Jan 29, 2020
2 - 4pm EST
Salon B, Scott-Bates Commons Scott-Bates Commons
Homewood Campus
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore , Maryland 21218
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Image caption: Brice Ménard

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Brice Ménard, associate professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University, presents the fifth annual President's Frontier Award Lecture, "The Wonders of Networks." The lecture begins at 2 p.m. and will be followed by a 3 p.m. reception.

Ménard, the 2019 recipient of the President's Frontier Award, combines astrophysics and big data to research galaxy formation and cosmology. His work has led to the detection of gravitational magnification by dark matter around galaxies and the discovery of tiny grains of dust in the intergalactic space that make the universe less transparent. He has used the $250,000 President's Frontier Award to continue developing a new tool called "the Sequencer." Based on the principles of statistical physics, this tool can automatically reveal deep underlying patterns and order from very large data sets.

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  • Students

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