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Abstract:
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While we can directly observe what other galaxies look like, we still have only a rough picture of what our own Milky Way Galaxy looks like for one simple reason: we are currently embedded within it! I will discuss why it’s so difficult to piece together what our own Galaxy looks like, talk about how modern surveys of stellar light are revolutionizing the field by opening up new pathways to tackle these problems, and describe some of the ways my collaborators and I are taking advantage of statistical methods and computing to use these data to map out the Milky Way both near and far.
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