Abstract
The 2014 CMSC keynote address. William Gressler, LSST Telescope and Site Project Manager, reviews how telescopes have shaped our understanding of the world, surveys the compelling science questions of the day from an engineering point of view, and introduces the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope – who the team are, what the survey will do, and how it will be done. The talk closes on the metrology systems that make the instrument possible and the new measurement techniques LSST developed, arguing that advances in measurement and metrology have expanded our ability to do big science. Keynote presentation slides only; no written abstract is held in the CMS archive.
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William Gressler. LSST Telescope and Site Project, Tucson, AZ. Presented at the Coordinate Metrology Systems Conference 2014, North Charleston, South Carolina, July 21-25, 2014. Coordinate Metrology Society, reference CMS-2014-031.