LSST Town Hall at AAS 233

LSST hosted a Town Hall at the 233rd AAS meeting, which was attended by distinguished guest Charles Simonyi. A donation from the Charles and Lisa Simonyi Fund for Arts and Science helped support fabrication of LSST’s Primary/Tertiary Mirror (M1M3). At the Town Hall, Zeljko Ivezic, Project Scientist and Deputy Director; Victor Krabbendam, Project Manager; and Leanne Guy, Project Scientist for Data Management gave updates on important milestones and developments that occurred in 2018, and commented on what lies ahead for LSST in 2019. Lynne Jones, System Performance Scientist, reported on the LSST Cadence Optimization white papers that were received in 2018 and are currently being reviewed. Federica Bianco, LSST Science Collaborations Coordinator, gave updates from the Science Collaborations and spoke about the LSST Corporation’s Enabling Science activities.