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Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered where we
came from and where we are going? Over the past decade observations of
supernovae have allowed us to start to answer that question by
constraining the cosmological parameters whose values give us great
insight as to the birth and fate of the universe. In this talk I will
cover the accomplishments made in this field past over the past several
years, highlighting the role that the new ‘Big’ telescopes and
supercomputing have played in this endeavor. I will wind up the talk
with what we hope to achieve in the next decade through two new
projects: the Nearby Supernova
Factory and the Supernova Acceleration
Probe.
Peter E. Nugent
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