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Project Manager’s Corner
Don Sweeney
In November the LSST Corporation (LSSTC) welcomed Vanderbilt University as the newest Institutional Member. Dr. Keivan Stassan will be the Vanderbilt Institutional Representative. The addition of Vanderbilt brings the total LSST membership to 27 with at least two additional applications pending before the Board.
LSSTC has named Dr. Chuck Claver as the LSST Systems Engineer. Chuck has been acting Systems Engineer for the last two years and the System Scientist for Telescope and Site. Chuck has resigned the latter position to focus full-time on system engineering.
As a sign of our growing project, the LSSTC is pleased to announce that we will have a full-time Business Administrator beginning December 28th. Mr. Daniel Calabrese, shown in the photograph, (dcalabrese@lsst.org) joins us having spent the last four years at NOAO, Central Administrative Office. At NOAO he was responsible for many of the LSST contracts and agreements. He will now have that responsibility and many others within the Corporation.
LSST staff continues to prepare for the NSF Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and DOE Critical Decision-1 Review (CD-1); both reviews are tentatively scheduled for mid-2009. The project completed a series of internal reviews lasting a total of six days with six external reviewers to access our readiness for the PDR and CD-1 reviews. As always, we learned of areas where we can improve but the overall assessment is we are absolutely ready to move forward with these federal agency reviews. All of us on the project appreciate the generosity of the six external experts who contributed their time for the benefit of the LSST.
LSST is a public-private partnership. Funding for design and development activity comes from the National Science Foundation, private donations, grants to universities, and in-kind support at Department of Energy laboratories and other LSSTC Institutional Members:
Brookhaven National Laboratory; California Institute of Technology; Carnegie Mellon University; Chile; Columbia University; Google Inc.; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Johns Hopkins University; Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Stanford University; Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, Inc.; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory; National Optical Astronomy Observatory; Princeton University; Purdue University; Research Corporation for Science Advancement; Rutgers University; SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory; The Pennsylvania State University; The University of Arizona; University of California, Davis; University of California, Irvine; University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign; University of Pennsylvania; University of Pittsburgh; University of Washington; Vanderbilt University
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