GAC Report May 4, 2021 CFHT CFHTcontinuestooperateunderCOVID-19restrictionswhichmeansnightobservations areexecutedfromHQinWaimea.DougSimonslefthispositionasCFHTExecutive

The installation of the fiber unit and the SuNSS enabled PFS spectrometer to capture the first spectrum of the night-sky. [...] The contributions included a Public Archive of the LSST data releases hosted by the CADC, to be called the Canadian LSST Advanced Science Platform (CLASP, which was proposed to the 2020 CFI funding cycle), and personnel support provided to a range of Rubin Science Collaborations. [...] The CLASP proposal was unfortunately not funded in the CFI 2020 round, however the funds from the Dunlap Institute and the University of Waterloo originally earmarked to support CLASP were thankfully retained. [...] The CEC will work with the US agencies to review the proposals, and begin the ramp up to purchasing and hiring of personnel. [...] The Milky Way Mapper will probe stars at all masses and phases of evolution to understand the growth of the Milky Way, substructure within the milky way, multiplicity across the HR diagram, gravitational wave progenitors, and the birth and end states of stellar evolution.