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I'm looking at the ability of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to find Large Scale Structure (LSS) in the form of supervoids on the scale of a gigaparsec. Such supervoids may be helpful in explaining the presence of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) cold spot. Additionally, it may be possible to constrain the properties of dark energy using the late-time Integrated Sachs Wolfe effect (ISW).

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Photometric redshifts obtained via the LSST will have large errors. I study these errors and am trying to determine if the errors can be made small enough to measure the two-point correlation function of the CMB & LSS in small enough redshift bins to measure the effects of dark energy.

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