Big Questions, Big Surveys, Big Data: Nighttime Astronomy & Cosmology in the 2020s (SnowPAC 2018)

Snowbird, Utah, 11-16 March 2018

NOAO is sponsoring the 7th annual Snowbird Workshop on Particle Astrophysics, Astronomy, and Cosmology (SnowPAC) in collaboration with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah.

The workshop is being organized on the occasion of the upcoming 2020 Decadal Survey in Astronomy and Astrophysics to gather community input and facilitate broad collaboration and coordination in addressing major questions in survey-scale and data-intensive astronomy and cosmology.

The structure and program of the workshop will build on the outcome of previous study processes (Optimizing the US Ground-based OIR System, Maximizing Science in the Era of LSST, Cosmic Visions), NOAO’s Decadal Survey community planning effort, and the input of workshop participants, to facilitate the creation of community-based whitepapers for submission to the Decadal Survey process.

For more information, and to sign up to receive notification when registration is open, please visit the SnowPAC website.