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LSST Shows its Stuff in Austin
3-D LSST Hologram, 24" on a side.
Continuing our annual tradition, LSST again had a strong presence at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Austin, TX. Activities included a booth all week on the exhibit hall floor, an LSST poster session, and a well-attended splinter meeting to further engage science collaboration team members with the data management efforts.
The lineup of 10 LSST posters was available for viewing on opening day of the meeting. Poster topics included science, image and operations simulators, and developments in the subsystems: camera, telescope & site, and data management. The posters are available for online viewing or download.
Approximately 100 scientists gathered for a splinter meeting organized by Mario Juric, LSST Project Scientist for Data Management, and NOAO Scientist Dick Shaw. This meeting was an opportunity for those involved in the LSST Science Collaborations to understand the current state of the project, gain experience accessing the simulated data and learn how to contribute to the software effort.
Natalie Gandilo, a graduate student at the University of Toronto, receives her winning LSST rock from Sidney Wolff at AAS 219. Photo by Kelley Knight Heins, (c) 2012 AAS
Our booth in the exhibit hall featured a fiber optic illuminated poster and a 24"-square 3D hologram of the LSST telescope, generated from engineering files by Zebra Imaging.
The exhibit booth was an active place in part because of our giveaway – the LSST pedometer. Those who recorded 20,000 steps (about 10 miles) on the pedometer could enter a drawing to win a piece of etched rock from the First Blast on Cerro Pachón, preparing the site for the telescope. We had over 80 entrants and 16 winners:
Allison McGraw, Marshall McCall, Joel Berrier, Elijah Bernstein-Cooper, Sharon Montgomery, Kristie Shaw, Jordan Wheeler, Natalie Gandilo, Keenan Stone, Helen Yamamoto, Ned Wright, Carmen Austin, Vivien Raymond, Daniel Harbeck, Trevor Bower, and Dominic Benford.
Congratulations to our winners and we’ll see you all again in Long Beach for the January 2013 AAS meeting!
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Adler Planetarium; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL); California Institute of Technology; Carnegie Mellon University; Chile; Cornell University; Drexel University; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; George Mason University; Google, Inc.; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Institut de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules (IN2P3); Johns Hopkins University; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) – Stanford University; Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc.; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); National Optical Astronomy Observatory; National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Princeton University; Purdue University; Research Corporation for Science Advancement; Rutgers University; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; Space Telescope Science Institute; Texas A & M University; The Pennsylvania State University; The University of Arizona; University of California at Davis; University of California at Irvine; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Michigan; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; University of Washington; Vanderbilt University
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