An Interview with Dave Mullins This week’s interview is with Dave Mullins.Jessica Barton: What is your job title?Dave Mullins: Electronic technologist.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?DM: I design and build control electronics for telescopes and astronomical instruments.
An Interview with Stuart Lowe This week’s interview is with Stuart Lowe.Jessica Barton: What is your job title? Stuart Lowe: Astronomy web developer.JB: What does your work at LCOGT involve?
An Interview with Abiy Tekola An interview with Abiy Tekola, a research astronomer who works for LCOGT in Cape Town, South Africa and is part of our education and outreach team.
An Interview with Mike Falarski An interview with Mike Falarski, our vice-president in charge of operations.
An Interview with Martin Dominik An interview with Martin Dominik, an astronomer from the University of St Andrews, who works with our science team to do research in extra-solar planets.
An Interview with Ben Burleson My main goal is to write software that controls different robotic parts of the telescopes and reports status of various things on the telescopes.
An Interview with Avi Shporer I'm involved in science - mainly transiting planets. I work with the Kepler and the HATNet teams. Our goal with Kepler is to study over 160,000 stars and measure the frequency of planets in the habitable zones of stars like our Sun.
An Interview with John Hygelund An interview with Mechanical Engineer John Hygelund. John designs, fabricates, and tests telescopes, instruments, and instrument systems.
An Interview with Yiannis Tsapras An interview with LCOGT research astronomer Yiannis Tsapras. Yiannis searches for planets orbiting distant stars using a method called microlensing.
An Interview with Matt Dubberley An interview with Mechanical Engineer Matt Dubberley about his work which covers structural analysis, thermodynamics, statics, motion control, dynamics, physics, vibrations, design and more.
An Interview with Rachel Haynes This week’s interview was with Rachel Haynes. The interview actually took place in late November, and since then Rachel has accepted employment with another local company and left LCOGT. Rachel worked here for over 5 years and we will miss her!
An Interview with Federica Bianco An interview with Federica Bianco where she talks about her role in the science time, working on Lucky Imaging and supernova survey data.
An Interview with Edward Gomez As a part of our education and outreach effort at LCOGT, and to give you a chance to get to know our staff a little better, we are starting a new interviews project. Every couple of weeks I will be interviewing a member of LCOGT's staff. We have wonderful people with a wide range of skills and from a variety of backgrounds.
CSTA Annual Conference Last weekend, October 22-24, was the California Science Teachers Association's annual conference in Sacramento. The conference featured 14 hours of workshops, two general sessions, six focus speakers, four field courses, 16 short courses, as well as keynote speakers Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman from the television show Mythbusters.
