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26/09 - 01:45 pm
Amanda Bauer
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Amanda Bauer
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LSST Education and Public Outreach (EPO) (LSST)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) will conduct a 10-year wide, fast, and deep survey of the night sky, and will have a unique EPO program that will go live when the telescope starts operating in late 2022. EPO will enable public access to a subset of LSST data so anyone can explore the universe and be part of the discovery process. In this talk I will describe some major components of the EPO program, including online notebooks that will enable educators to provide LSST data in their classrooms without needing to download and maintain software or data files, an interactive Skyviewer, original multimedia for informal science centers and planetariums, and citizen science projects that use LSST data.
06/09 - 10:00 am
Ian Shipsey
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Ian Shipsey
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope Corporation (LSSTC) (University of Oxford)
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is the most ambitious all sky survey of the universe ever proposed. In just its first month of operation LSST will see more of the universe at optical wavelengths than all previous telescopes built by mankind. LSST will conduct a 10-year survey of the sky that will deliver a 200 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects within it: Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Hazardous Asteroids and the Remote Solar System, The Transient Optical Sky and The Formation and Structure of the Milky Way. The LSST Corporation (LSSTC) was formed to initiate the LSST Project and advance astronomy and physics. LSSTC represents nearly 40 US & Chilean institutional members, as well as 74 international institutions representing 23 countries and over 1500 scientists and researchers. LSSTC partners with NSF/AURA and DOE/SLAC in LSST operations and will enable the exploitation of LSST’s data by advocating for and supporting LSST science. I will talk about being part of LSST, LSSTC as an academic at an university in UK, a country that is neither a main funder or the host nation.
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