The LSST Team

More than 100 collaborators attended the LSST's most recent All-Hands Meeting in May, 2008.

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.

Contact The LSST Corporation.
LSST Corporation President, Sidney Wolff, LSST Corporation
LSST Director, J. Anthony Tyson, University of California, Davis
Project Manager, Donald Sweeney, LSST Corporation
System Scientist, Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
System Engineer, Chuck Claver, National Optical Astronomy Observatory
EPO Manager, Suzanne Jacoby, LSST Corporation
Deputy Project Director, Steven Kahn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Camera
Project Manager, Nadine Kurita, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Lead Scientist, Steven Kahn, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
System Scientist, Kirk Gilmore, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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
System Architect, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Operations Simulation
Philip Pinto, University of Arizona
Image Simulations Scientist
Andy Connolly, University of Washington
LSSTC INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERS
REPRESENTATIVE
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) Samuel Aronson
California Institute of Technology George Helou
Carnegie Mellon University Fred Gilman
Chile Mario Hamuy
Columbia University Michael H. Shaevitz
Drexel University Dr. Gordon Richards
Google, Inc. Rob Pike
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Christopher Stubbs
Johns Hopkins University Jon Bagger
Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) - Stanford University Sarah Church
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc. Wayne Rosing
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Scot Olivier
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Salman Habib
National Optical Astronomy Observatory* David Silva
Princeton University Michael Strauss
Purdue University Ian Shipsey
Research Corporation for Science Advancement* John P. Schaefer
Rutgers University Eric Gawiser
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Jonathan Dorfan
Space Telescope Science Institute Harry Ferguson
The Pennsylvania State University Lawrence Ramsey/ Don Schneider
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 Urbana-Champaign Richard Crutcher
University of Pennsylvania Bhuvnesh Jain
University of Pittsburgh Jeffrey Newman
University of Washington* Lee Huntsman
Vanderbilt University Keivan Stassun
* Founding Member


Board of Directors
Samuel Aronson, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Richard Caris, Director at Large
Jonathan Dorfan, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, LSSTC Vice Chairman
Fred Gilman, Carnegie Mellon University
Mario Hamuy, Chile
Lee Huntsman, University of Washington*
Lawrence Ramsey, The Pennsylvania State University
John P. Schaefer, LSSTC, Chairman of the Board
David Silva NOAO*, LSSTC Treasurer
Michael Strauss, Princeton University
Peter A. Strittmatter, University of Arizona*
* Founding Member

LSSTC Officers
John P. Schaefer, Chairman of the Board
Jonathan Dorfan, Vice Chairman
Sidney Wolff, President
Sherri R. Benedict, Secretary
David Silva, Treasurer

Site Selection Committee
Mark Sarazin, Chair, European Southern Observatory
William Althouse, LSSTC, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Rene Racine, University de Montreal
Simon Radford, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Michael Strauss, Princeton University

Site Selection Committee: Non-Voting
Don Sweeney, LSSTC
Tony Tyson, UC Davis

Site Selection Committee: 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. Join the Mission!

Array Technology
Veljko Radeka, Chair, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Don Figer, STSCI
John Geary, Harvard Smithsonian CFA
Kirk Gilmore, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Paul O'Connor, Brookhaven National Laboratory
John Oliver, Harvard University
Christopher Stubbs, Harvard University
Tony Tyson, University of California, Davis
LSST Science Collaborations and their chairs
Supernovae: Michael Wood-Vasey (CfA)
Weak lensing: David Wittman (UCD) and Bhuvnesh Jain (UPenn), co-chairs
Stellar Populations: Kevin Covey (CfA) and Abhijit Saha (NOAO)
Active Galactic Nuclei: Niel Brandt (PSU)
Solar System: Steve Chesley (JPL) and Lynne Jones (UW)
Galaxies: Harry Ferguson (STScI)
Transients/variable stars: Lucianne Walkowicz (UCB), Lynne Jones (UW), and Shri Kulkarni (Caltech) co-chairs
Large-scale structure/baryon oscillations: Hu Zhan (UCD)
Milky Way structure: James Bullock (UCI) and Beth Willman, co-chairs
Strong Lensing: Phil Marshall (UCSB)

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.
System scientist (chair): Zeljko Ivezic
Sub-system project scientists: Chuck Claver, Steve Kahn, Tim Axelrod, Phil Pinto
System engineer: Chuck Claver
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