Events

Forum to bring together developers from observatories on Earth and in Space with the science community for time domain astrophysics

Rachel Street (Las Cumbres Observatory), Katarzyna Kruszynska (Las Cumbres Observatory), Carrie Holt (Las Cumbres Observatory), Joseph Farah (Las Cumbres Observatory & UCSB)

Blast from the Past: Stellar Explosions Observed by our Ancestors
Sunny Wong (KITP, UC Santa Barbara)

Seismic Legacy: How the 1925 Santa Barbara Earthquake Transformed Our City and State
Sandy Seale (Las Cumbres Observatory)

Ripples in Space-Time: Messages from the Universe
Tousif Islam (KITP, UC Santa Barbara)

Turbulence: From Your Coffee Mug to Galaxies
Zirui Chen (UC Santa Barbara)

The Black Hole Explorer
Joseph Farah (UCSB, LCO)

HERA-cule Poirot - Asteroid Crime Scene Investigator
Tim Lister (LCO)

The search for dark matter under the Black Hills
Chami Amarasinghe (UCSB)

Hungry Hungry Black Holes (or Really Clumsy Stars)
Megan Newsome (UCSB, LCO)

Stargazers of Past Skies: Tales of Stars and Stones
Giacomo Terreran (Las Cumbres Observatory)

Comet Interceptor: ESA’s new mission to a pristine world
Carrie Holt (Las Cumbres Observatory)

LCO will be hosting an Open House in our global headquarters in Goleta. Everyone is welcome.

The Fastest Stars in the Galaxy
Sunny Wong (UCSB)

Ethanol in the Ether
Nikolaus Volgenau (Las Cumbres Observatory)

Dr. David Ciardi (Chief Scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute)

Why the day is 24 hours long
Norman Murray (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto)

Many astronomical programs need to coordinate follow up observations of astronomical targets and events, and to visualize and explore the associated data. This workshop explores the open source tools available to help you run your science program.

Gaia: Nearly 10 years of observing the Galaxy in motion.
Katarzyna Kruszyńska (LCO)

What is lurking inside infra-red dark clouds?
Sean Carey (NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, Caltech)

A Supernova that Exploded Twice
Estefania Padilla Gonzalez (LCO, UCSB)

The Obi-wan Kenobi of Stars
Curtis McCully (Las Cumbres Observatory)

Strange Giants: High Mass Brown Dwarfs and Gliese 229B
Samuel Whitebook (UCSB and Caltech)

Our Galileo Moment and Our Cosmic Future
Juna Kollmeier (CITA/University of Toronto)

Out-of-this-world vacations with the Exoplanet Travel Bureau
Andrew Ridden-Harper (LCO)