Join us for the inaugural gathering of the teams, awardees, and researchers to shape the first science with The Schmidt Observatory System.
Why we are meeting
The Schmidt Observatory System rethinks how observatories are built — compressing decades into years, and pairing rapid development with open data and shared tools.
Who is in the room
Community researchers are encouraged to apply for contributed talks and posters and to actively engage with the observatory teams during the symposium to seed future collaborations.
Aims
What each facility can do, how to access it, and how observing time will work.
Form teams and begin crafting ambitious cross-observatory science and proposals.
Surface the science cases and capabilities that will guide what The System becomes.
Science
a
The large-scale structure and evolution of the Universe.
b
The dynamic and variable sky, from seconds to years.
c
Worlds beyond the Sun, and the stars they orbit.
d
Open capacity for the questions not yet asked.
The System
An action movie of the night sky.
Detail →Real-time images of the dynamic radio sky.
Detail →A scalable, modular light bucket for fibre-fed spectroscopy.
Detail →A 3-metre-class space telescope responding within hours.
Detail →Featured speakers
Observatory PI, Argus Array · UNC Chapel Hill
Observatory PI, Deep Synoptic Array · Caltech
Observatory PI, LFAST · University of Arizona
Instrument PI, WCC & ESC · University of Arizona
Director, Center for Astrophysics · Schmidt Sciences
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