Donald Sweeney, LSST Project Manager

Don Sweeney is the Project Manager of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. He is also a staff member of the Physics Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Don completed all his degrees in engineering at the University of Michigan. He completed his PhD in 1972 specializing in optical science and data processing. He then joined the faculty of Purdue University where he remained for 13 years before moving to Livermore, California. At Purdue, he taught and developed research programs in the applications of modern optical techniques applied to problems in physics and engineering. Don's prior position at LLNL was Principle Investigator of the Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography research program. This $250M project was funded by a consortium of US and European integrated circuit manufacturers including Intel, AMD, Motorola, Micron, Infineon and IBM. Throughout his career, Dr. Sweeney has been active in professional societies. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He holds 14 US and International patents. He has over 50 refereed journal publications and numerous invited and contributed papers to international meetings.