Team Projects



Project #1 - Telescope Design


Red Team: High Z Galactic structure
Vernon Dunlap, Project Manager
Blake Coughenour, Optical Engineer
Eduardo Bendek, Systems Engineer
Mary Anne Peters, Chief Scientist
Marcos Quiroz, Chief Scientist

UV Team: KEarth
Vanessa Bailey
Nicholas Ballering
Tianquan Su
Emily Kopp
Patrick Llull

Blue Team: WiFEESNeD
Jordan Stone
Russell Knox
Wenrui Cai
Tim Arnold
William Hease


Project #2 - Spectrographs


Spectrograph for Bok Telescope
Science team: Jordan Stone, Vanessa Bailey, Timothy Arnold
Optical engineering: Mary Anne Peters, Tianquan Su, Wenrui Cai, William Hease,
Mechanics: Blake Cougehnour,
Detectors: Marcos Quiroga, Eduardo Bendek,
Project Manager: Eduardo Bendek

Spaceborne High Accuracy Radial Velocity Planet Searcher (SHARPS)
Nick Ballering
Russel Knox
Vernon Dunlap
Emily Kopp
Patrick Llull


Project #3 - Interferometry


Aperture Masking on LBT
Jordan Stone
Marcos Quiroga
Timothy Arnold
Patrick Llull
Mary Anne Peters

LBTI spectrograph
Vernon Dunlap - Project Manager
Will Hease - Systems
Emily Kopp - Science
Tianquan Su - Optics

VLTI tour
Eduardo Bendek
Wenrui Cai
Vanessa Bailey
Nicholas Ballering
Russell Knox
Blake Coughenour


Project #4 - Adaptive Optics


LSST near-IR wide field AO
Eduardo Bendek
Tim Arnold
Mary Anne Peters
Blake Coughenour

LBT-VisAO
Vernon Dunlap - Manager
Emily Kopp - Science
Tianquan Su - Systems
William Hease - Systems
Patrick Llull - Optics