October 25 (Monday) 7:30-8:30pm, Olin 141
Dr. Sidney Wolff will describe her current work on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a project described as the “widest, fastest and deepest eye of the new digital age”. The LSST is an 8.4-m telescope equipped with a 3200 Megapixel camera capable of imaging a 10-degree wide field of view. Each patch of sky will be imaged every three days, giving us unprecedented views of how our universe is changing over time. Each night over 30 Terabytes of data will be stored and processed and Google has signed on to help with this huge data management challenge.