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Alexander Szalay is the Alumni Centennial Professor of Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, and Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Szalay is the Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Science. He is a cosmologist, working on the statistical measures of the spatial distribution of galaxies and galaxy formation. He is a Corresponding Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2004 he received an Alexander Von Humboldt Award in Physical Sciences, in 2007 the Microsoft Jim Gray Award. In 2008 he became Doctor Honoris Causa of the Eotvos University, Budapest. He enjoys playing with Big Data. 

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Topic: The Fourth Paradigm: How Big Data is Changing Science

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Szalay

Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Time: 11 AM – 12 PM ET

You are invited to listen to Dr. presentation in Room 2W910-912 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx:

WebEx Meeting Link:  https://cbiit.webex.com/cbiit/onstage/g.php?d=735010000&t=a

Password:  $Peakerseries15

Meeting ID:  735 010 000

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