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Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time

The goal of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory project is to conduct the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). LSST will deliver a 500 petabyte set of images and data products that will address some of the most pressing questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and the objects in it. The Rubin Observatory LSST is designed to address four science areas:

• Probing dark energy and dark matter.
• Taking an inventory of the solar system.
• Exploring the transient optical sky.
• Mapping the Milky Way.

[Text and image from https://www.lsst.org]

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Name Role Affiliations Email Phone Office Centers Research topics
Joel Leja Joel Leja Faculty Astronomy, ICDS jql6565@psu.edu +1 814 865 0418 515 Davey Laboratory CTOC Cosmic Surveys
Kyle Neumann Kyle Neumann Graduate Student Astronomy kdn5172@psu.edu (814) 865-0418 537 Davey Laboratory IGC Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Dynamic Universe
Charlotte Ward Charlotte Ward Faculty Astronomy cvw5890@psu.edu 2027585625 418 Davey Laboratory IGC Astroinformatics, Black Holes, Multimessenger Astrophysics, Quasars
Zhibo Yu Zhibo Yu Graduate Student Astronomy zvy5225@psu.edu +1 814 2329588 440 Davey Laboratory IGC Dynamic Universe
Bojun Zhang Bojun Zhang Graduate Student Astronomy bjz5234@psu.edu 8142803409 535A Davey Laboratory IGC Astrostatistics, Black Holes, Quasars
Fan Zou Fan Zou Graduate Student Astronomy fuz64@psu.edu 535A Davey Laboratory IGC
About our wordmark
Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.