Science Speaker | Tom Bales

Cosmic Rays and Citizen Science: The World's Largest Telescope

Feb 7th | 3pm | 46/152

Tom Bales, an MIT graduate and Chief Technology Officer for Syntheon LLC in Miami, is the lead investigator for the ERGO Project.  The “Energetic Ray Global Observatory” is a collective of scientists and amateurs who’s cosmic ray detecting units, like the one collecting data on our campus, all contribute to “The World’s Largest Telescope”. Bales, who recently gave a riveting TED Talk on the subject, will expound upon this expansive project and how we can participate in changing the way we see the universe.