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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Dark Energy Science and the Large Synoptic Surve
	y Telescope
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Chris Walter\, Duke University\nPoster: http://physic
	s.bu.edu/internal//files/download/Walter-poster.pdf\n\nPart of the Physics 
	Department Colloquia Series.\n\nIn this talk I will introduce the Large Syn
	optic Survey Telescope (LSST) project\, a giant survey telescope that will 
	be located in Chile and is designed to make a three dimensional survey of t
	he entire visible sky. Using the LSST over ten years\, the LSST Dark Energy
	 Science Collaboration will examine billions of galaxies\, hundreds of thou
	sands of supernovae and several other probes to try to determine the nature
	 of the mysterious "Dark Energy" which is unaccountably causing the univers
	e to be pushed apart at a faster and faster rate.  The LSST will open a who
	le new field of observational cosmology by collecting an unprecedented amou
	nt of data and addressing some of the most fundamental questions we have ab
	out space-time including the nature of gravity\, dark energy\, and dark mat
	ter.  This data will be available to the public and looked at by science co
	llaborations formed to extract science from the instrument.  In this presen
	tation I will introduce the science\, the instrument\, and some of the tech
	niques we will use to try to elucidate the nature of dark energy.
LOCATION:SCI 109\, 590 Commonwealth Avenue\, 02215
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