LSST Team

More than 100 collaborators were at SLAC to take part in LSST's third All-Hands Meeting.
Dec 6, 2006

The effort to build the LSST is overseen by the LSST Corporation and is actively being supported and developed by more than one hundred astronomers, physicists, and engineers throughout the country who see the LSST as the next big leap in charting the heavens, probing nature, an exciting technological challenge, and a new model for doing big science.

LSST Director, J. Anthony Tyson, University of California, Davis
Project Manager, Donald Sweeney, LSST Corporation
System Scientist, Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
System Engineer (Acting), Chuck Claver, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Project Coordinator, Suzanne Jacoby, LSST Corporation
Deputy Project Director, Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Camera
Project Manager, Kirk Gilmore, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Project Scientist, Steven Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Telescope & Site
Project Manager, Victor Krabbendam, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Project Scientist, Chuck Claver, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Data Management
Project Manager, Jeff Kantor, LSST Corporation
Project Scientist, Tim Axelrod, LSST Corporation
Simulations and Data Challenge, Philip Pinto, University of Arizona
Institutional Members
Representative
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Samuel Aronson
California Institute of Technology George Helou
Carnegie Mellon University Fred Gilman
Columbia University Michael H. Shaevitz
Google, Inc. Rob Pike
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Christopher Stubbs
Johns Hopkins University Alexander Szalay
Las Cumbres Observatory, Inc. Wayne Rosing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) William H. Goldstein
National Optical Astronomy Observatory* Sidney Wolff
Penn State University Daniel J. Larson/Don Schneider
Princeton University Michael Strauss
Purdue University Ian Shipsey
Research Corporation* John P. Schaefer
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center Jonathan Dorfan
Stanford University -Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Roger Blanford
The University of Arizona* Peter A. Strittmatter
University of California at Davis Barry M. Klein
University of California at Irvine David Kirkby
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana Richard Crutcher
University of Pennsylvania Bhuvnesh Jain
University of Pittsburgh Jeffrey Newman
University of Washington* Craig J. Hogan
 
* Founding Member
Board Directors
John P. Schaefer, LSSTC President
Sidney Wolff, NOAO, LSSTC Vice President*
Peter A. Strittmatter, University of Arizona, Secretary*
Samuel Aaronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard Caris, Director at Large
Jonathan Dorfan, Stanford University
Craig J. Hogan, University of Washington*
Barry M. Klein, University of California, Davis
Michael Strauss, Princeton Universitiy
Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University
 
* Founding Member
Partners and Sponsors
Lucent Technologies
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
US Department of Energy, Office of Science
Site Selection Committee
Mark Sarazin, Chair, European Southern Observatory
William Althouse, LSSTC, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Roc Cutri, California Institute of Technology, IPAC
Bob Gehrz, University of Minnesota
Alan Harris, Space Science Institute
Frank Hill, National Solar Observatory
Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
Steve Kahn, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Rene Racine, University de Montreal
Simon Radford, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Michael Strauss, Princeton University
 
Non-Voting
Don Sweeney, LSSTC
Tony Tyson, UC Davis
 
Observers
NSF Representative
DOE Representative
Community Input
Science Working Groups, chaired by Michael Strauss of Princeton University, represents the scientific community in developing the science programs that will use LSST data. We also have a parallel mechanism for LSST community science program suggestions. These inputs have resulted in key deliverables and a Science Requirements Document [PDF 342KB]. We welcome suggestions for additional science programs that would be enabled by the LSST. Send your ideas and suggestions to lsst-science@lsstmail.org and join the LSST community public discussion forum. Join the Mission!
Array Technology
Veljko Radeka, Chair, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Don Figer, STSCI
John Geary, Harvard Smithsonian CFA
Kirk Gilmore, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Paul O'Connor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
John Oliver, Harvard University
Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University
Tony Tyson, University of California, Davis
Science Council
The LSST Science Council (SC) is a primary body chartered to monitor the technical development of the LSST to ensure that it will meet its science requirements. The SC is empowered to make final science decisions on behalf of the entire LSST project. These decisions are presented by the SC chair for approval by the Director, Project Manager and the LSST Board of Directors.
the system scientist (chair): Zeljko Ivezic
the sub-system project scientists: Chuck Claver, Steve Kahn, Tim Axelrod, Phil Pinto
the system engineer: Bill Althouse
device and calibration expert: Chris Stubbs
algorithms expert: Robert Lupton
astrometry expert: Dave Monet
database expert: Alex Szalay
science working group committees chair: Michael Strauss
director and project manager (ex officio): Tony Tyson and Don Sweeney