McWilliams Research Collaborations
Carnegie Mellon's physics faculty hold leadership roles in multiple large sky surveys, perform large-scale cosmological and hydrodynamical simulations and conduct theoretical studies covering a wide range of cosmological and astrophysical topics. Additionally, the McWilliams Center has recently moved its computing cluster, Vera, to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, which provides high-performance computing resources on a variety of scales and works closely with our scientists.
The Center has major involvements in some of the most exciting projects in cosmology and particle physics:
Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)
Image Credit: Rubin Obs/NSF/AURA
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS)
Image Credit: David Kirkby, SDSS
Euclid
Image Credit: European Space Agency
Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA)
Image Credit: AEI/MM/exozet
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)
Image Credit: DESI
Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
Image Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
The Hubble Space Telescope
Image Credit: M. Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble), NASA, and ESA
Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT)
Image Credit: Jon Ward
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
Image Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn