Prof. Michael Wood-Vasey

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will revolutionize a wide range of fields across astronomy through its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). In this talk I will summarize the Vera Rubin Observatory and LSST capabilities, mission, and partnership model. I will cover the main science collaborations organized around LSST which span from our dynamic Solar System, to studying the fundamental composition of the Universe, and revolutionizing our understand of the transient and variable sky. I will then focus a bit more on the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC), and discuss the key DESC cosmological probes, expected cosmological constraints, and collaboration. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) is a large international collaboration that will make high accuracy measurements of fundamental cosmological parameters using data from LSST. By using measurements from weak lensing, clusters, supernovae, and strong lensing, DESC will determine the tightest constraints on dark energy from this flagship facility of the next decade.