[Physstaff] FW: UGlasgow colloquium 3/2/16 "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)" Prof Ian Shipsey, Oxford,

[Daniel Oi]

FYI Colloquium at University of Glasgow next week.

From: Sonja Franke-Arnold [mailto:Sonja.Franke-Arnold at glasgow.ac.uk]
Sent: 28 January 2016 15:36
Subject: colloquium 3/2/16 by Prof Ian Shipsey, Oxford, "The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)"

Dear All,
It's a great pleasure to announce next week's highly distinguished colloquium speaker:  Professor Ian Shipsey!

speaker:  Professor Ian Shipsey, Oxford
title: The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)  (abstract and speaker info below)
date: Wednesday 3/2/2016, 3pm
room:  Kelvin Building room 257

Questions, doughnuts and time to meet afterwards in the common room, as always!

Best wishes,
Sonja

Abstract:
Recent technological advances have made it possible to carry out deep optical surveys of a large fraction of the visible sky. These surveys enable a diverse array of astronomical and fundamental physics investigations including: the search for small moving objects in the solar system, studies of the assembly history of the Milky Way, the exploration of transient sky, and the establishment of tight constraints on models of dark energy using a variety of independent techniques.
Over the full ten years of operation, it will survey half of the sky in six optical colors to the 27th magnitude. Four billion new galaxies and 10 million supernovae will be discovered. At least 800 distinct images will be acquired of every field, enabling a plethora of statistical investigations for intrinsic variability and for control of systematic uncertainties in deep imaging studies. LSST will produce 15 terabytes of data per night, yielding a data set of over 100 petabytes in ten years.
Dedicated Computing Facilities will process the image data in near real time, and issue worldwide alerts within 60 seconds for objects that change in position or brightness. In this talk some of the science that will be made possible by the construction of LSST will be discussed. Particular emphasis will be given to dark energy, the nature of which constitutes a profound challenge to particle physics and cosmology. An overview of the technical design and current status of the project will also be given.
The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) brings together astrophysicists, particle physicists and computer scientists in the most ambitious project of this kind that has yet been proposed. With an 8.4 m primary mirror, and a 3.2 Gigapixel, 10 square degree CCD camera, LSST will provide nearly an order of magnitude improvement in survey speed over all existing optical surveys, or those which are currently in development. Approved for construction on August 1st 2014, and expected to enter commissioning in 2020, in its first month of operation LSST will survey more of the optical universe than all previous telescopes built by mankind.


Ian Shipsey is a particle physicist. He builds cameras that view the Universe in new ways: a recent image was the Higgs Boson. He was a member of the CMS experiment at the LHC from 2002 to March 2015 where he was Chair of Collaboration Board in 2013, co-coordinator of the LHC Physics Center at Fermilab (2009-2012), quarkonia convener in 2010 and was part of the team that built the CMS forward pixel detector. He is a member of the team that is building the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope camera and served on the Board of Directors of the project (2009-13). Earlier, he made some of the most precise measurements of the weak interactions of beauty and charm quarks and was the spokesperson of the CLEO experiment at the Cornell Electron Storage Ring from 2001-2004. His interests are in searches for physics beyond the standard model at the LHC and dark energy. In 2014 he was Chair of the Division of Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society. He was Julian Schwinger Distinguished Professor of physics at Purdue University (2007-2013) and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has received Purdue University's highest award for teaching. Ian is profoundly deaf and has given over seventy colloquia and talks to the public on hearing, cochlear implants and perception since the miracle of a cochlear implant restored his hearing. He joined Oxford University October 2013 and moved from CMS to ATLAS in April 2015.




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