NRC OIR Town Hall

The National Research Council (NRC) OIR System Study Committee, chaired by former AAS President Debra Elmegreen (Vassar College), is considering a strategy to optimize the US optical and infrared (OIR) system in the era of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). Elmegreen and committee member Paul Schechter (MIT) discussed the study panel's scope and activities at a Town Hall on Wednesday.