LOTIS: Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System searches for simultaneous optical counterparts of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs).

NGST: a pre-Phase A study for an imaging Fourier transform spectrograph (IFTS) for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST).

Other NGST links of interest: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~jrg/ngst

CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES: a diverse class of short-period semi-detached binaries consisting of an accreting white dwarf primary and (typically) a low-mass main-sequence secondary star.

MACHO Project; The MACHO Project is a collaboration between scientists at the Mt. Stromlo & Siding Spring Observatories, the Center for Particle Astrophysics at the Santa Barbara, San Diego, & Berkeley campuses of the University of California, and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Our primary aim is to test the hypothesis that a significant fraction of the dark matter in the halo of the Milky Way is made up of objects like brown dwarfs or planets: these objects have come to be known as MACHOs, for MAssive Compact Halo Objects