Kavli Computing

Speaker:

Stuart L. Marshall - Staff Physicist with the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at SLAC

Date: Thursday, July 14, 2005
Time: 3:30 - 5:00 PM
Location: Orange Conference Room, Bldg 40
Goodies: Tea and cookies provided

Speaker's Summary:

Now in our second year at SLAC, the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) comprises a growing community of postdocs, students, visitors, staff and faculty working jointly between SLAC and Stanford University. Kipac researchers are involved in a variety of astrophysical investigations involving computing on many levels, from desktop image analysis to large cosmological simulations and data-driven efforts requiring the development of singularly large database systems. I will survey these projects from the point of view of their computing requirements and present an overview of the development of our computing facilities at SLAC. I'll talk about the opportunities we see and the challenges we face in the coming year and beyond.

About the Speaker:

Stuart Marshall is a staff physicist with the Kavli Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) at SLAC. He is responsible for guiding the development and maintenance of KIPAC computing resources via collaboration with the SLAC Computing Services Group. He is involved in the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) project team at SLAC which is part of a large collaboration (www.lsst.org) developing a ground-based 8.4-meter, 10 square-degree-field telescope that will provide digital imaging of faint astronomical objects across the entire sky. The ten year project is proposed to begin in 2013. Other research interests include the Taiwanese American Occultation Survey (TAOS) which seeks to detect and count small (2km) objects in the Kuiper Belt region of the Solar System. Marshall received his PhD in physics from UC Santa Barbara in 1995 for work on the MACHO project which detected gravitational microlensing of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud. He joined LLNL's Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) as a postdoc continuing through November 2003 when he joined KIPAC.