Seeing Science: The CERN Hadron Collider

Описание: Caption: The CMS Detector is one of two large general-purpose particle physics detectors built on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Switzerland. The CMS detector is capable of studying many aspects of proton collisions. Photo: Enrico Sacchetti.

In this highlight clip, Reading the Pictures Salon moderator Nate Stormer and panelists Kurt Mutchler, Rebecca Adelman, Marvin Heiferman, Ben de la Cruz, Corey Keller, and Max Mutchler explore the colorful, abstract and intricate depiction of a very large scale scientific object.

The Reading the Pictures and Seeing Science/ UMBC salon, “How Science is Pictured in the Media and Public Culture,” was held Thursday, December 1st, 2016 on Google HangOut with a live audience chat. Panelists included: Rebecca Adelman UMBC Professor of Media & Communication Studies; Ben de la Cruz, Multimedia Editor, Science Desk, NPR; Marvin Heiferman Faculty member, Curator, Project Director “Seeing Science”; Corey Keller – Curator, SFMOMA; Kurt Mutchler – Senior Editor, Science, Photography Department, National Geographic; and Max Mutchler, Space Telescope Science Institute, Hubble Heritage Project manager, visual scholar Nate Stormer explored ten key and provocative photos in a live Google Hangout, culled from thousands of media images across sixteen categories of science.

The Reading the Pictures Salon is an on-line, real-time discussion between photojournalists, visual academics and other visual or subject experts. Each salon examines a set of images relevant to the major stories of the day.

For more discussion highlights and the full replay of the Salon, visit: http://bit.ly/SeeingScience-Salon