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
- 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
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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
| 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 |