Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Dr. Meredith Rawls, Paul M. Sutter, Kimberly Cartier
Title: Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Meredith Rawls & the LSST
Link: Cosmoquest: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/FIYCaCOfH8c
Description: This Week’s Stories:
- First science from Keck’s Vortex Coronagraph!
- Oxygen on the Moon
- Cosmic Supervoids
- The holographic Universe
Each week we will have a random drawing for a prize package from our sponsor. Enter the code for this week into this site: https://cosmoquest.org/achievements/code for a chance to win.
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Special Guest: This week’s guest is Dr. Meredith Rawls ( https://astronomerrdiff.wordpress.com / https://astrobites.org/author/mrawls/ @merrdiff ). Meredith is a postdoc working with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Data Management group at the University of Washington. The LSST will collect frames for a decade-long movie of the sky beginning in 2022. Her team develops software to process terabytes of nightly data. She’s also an active researcher in stellar astrophysics and a relentless science communicator.
Guests:
Dr. Paul Matt Sutter ( http://www.pmsutter.com/ & @PaulMattSutter )
Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )
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