Science Announcements
Many Endorse System Roadmap Committee Statement on Implementation of NSF Portfolio Review Report
30 November 2012
Nearly a thousand community members have endorsed the statement issued by the Ground-based OIR System Roadmap Committee (SRC) on the NSF/AST Portfolio Review Committee
CTIO’s 50th Anniversary Conference on “Fifty Years of Wide Field Studies in the Southern Hemisphere”
30 November 2012
The advent of wide-field CCD cameras on 4-m class telescopes, which enabled surveys of the sky to significant depths, has led to new perspectives
System Development Workshop on “Spectroscopy in the Era of LSST”
30 November 2012
Spectroscopic follow-up observations of LSST discoveries will play an important, often critical, role in fulfilling the scientific promise of LSST. To prepare for science
GeMS/GSAOI programs selected for SV observations in 2012B
28 November 2012
The list of accepted programs for GeMS/GSAOI System Verification observations is now available. The deadline for Phase II submission is November 6, 2012.
System Roadmap Committee Statement on the NSF/AST Portfolio Review: Your Endorsement Sought
31 October 2012
The Ground-based OIR System Roadmap Committee (SRC) has issued a statement on the NSF/AST Portfolio Review Committee (PRC) report. The statement, based on the
Report from the October 2012 STAC meeting
16 October 2012
Report from the October 2012 STAC meeting (PDF) is available here.