Major Projects

Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)

Wide-field optical survey scanning the northern sky every two nights, enabling rapid discovery of transients and variable stars.

La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4)

New southern-sky survey focusing on bright transients, with real-time discovery and follow-up.

SkAI — NSF–Simons AI Institute for the Sky

National AI institute advancing data-driven astrophysics; PASTA Lab contributes to real-time transient discovery pipelines.