The Science Advisory Committee (SAC) provides a formal, and two-way, connection to the external science community served by LSST.  Comprised of scientists familiar with but external to the LSST Project, the SAC advises the LSST Director on both policy questions and technical topics of interest to the Project and the science community.

Members of this committee, together with their institutions and e-mail adresses, are as follows: 

• Timo Anguita (U. Andres Bello; tanguita@gmail.com): Transients
• Rachel Bean (Cornell; rbean@astro.cornell.edu): Cosmology
• Niel Brandt (PSU; niel@astro.psu.edu): AGN
• Jason Kalirai (STScI; jkalirai@stsci.edu): Stellar Populations
• Mansi Kasliwal (Caltech; mansikasliwal@gmail.com): Transients
• David Kirkby (UC Irvine; dkirkby@uci.edu): Cosmology
• Charles Liu (AMNH/Staten Island, cliu@amnh.org): Galaxies and AGN
• Amy Mainzer (JPL; Amy.Mainzer@jpl.nasa.gov): Solar System
• Renu Malhotra (UA; renu@lpl.arizona.edu): Solar System
• Nelson Padilla (U. Catolica de Chile, npadilla@astro.puc.cl): Cosmology, galaxy formation
• Joshua Simon (Carnegie, jsimon@obs.carnegiescience.edu): Milky Way structure
• Anže Slosar (Brookhaven, anze@bnl.gov): Cosmology, LSS
• Michael Strauss (Princeton; strauss@astro.princeton.edu) - Chair: Galaxies and LSS
• Lucianne Walkowicz (Adler Planetarium; lwalkowicz@adlerplanetarium.org): Variables
• Risa Wechsler (Stanford; rwechsler@stanford.edu): Cosmology

​Please contact any of the above individuals with questions, advice, or input on any aspect of the LSST science effort. 

The following are previous members of the SAC: 

Harry Ferguson, Marla Geha, Chris Hirata, Lisa Hunter, Bhuvnesh Jain, Rachel Mandelbaum, Dante Minniti, Ricardo Muñoz, and Michael Wood-Vasey