Towards autonomous space research

The IT company GlobalLogic Slovakia is launching a series of online webinars. Topic of the first one, which will be held on Thursday, February 18 at 7PM on Facebook, is “Towards autonomous space research“. Speaker of this webinar will be Šimon Mackovjak, member of the Department of Cosmic Physics at Institute of Experimental Physics SAS in Košice.

Aim of the webinar is to share know-how, bring the latest trends to the IT community and connect industries in which IT plays an important role. Šimon Mackovjak has been dealing with the topic of the first webinar in the SPACE::LAB for a long time. According to him, modern technologies based on artificial intelligence are necessary for the current space research.

Šimon Mackovjak studied astronomy and astrophysics at the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Charles University in Bratislava. During his PhD. studies he worked at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and later as a postdoc at the ISDC Data Center for Astrophysics, University of Geneva in Switzerland. He has been working at the Department of Space Physics, Institute of Experimental Physics SAS since 2016, where he focuses on the research of airglow and the impact of solar activity on the Earth. He leads the ESA/PECS project AMON-net and participates in the preparation of NASA missions EUSO-SPB2 and POEMMA. He launched the SPACE::LAB project in Košice and sees great potential in involving the IT community in scientific research.

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Author: Andrea Nozdrovická

Source: News at SAS