2023 September 13 at 14:00 to 17:00
2023 September 14 to 09:30 to 16:00
Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building, Keble Road, Department of Physics, University of Oxford
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The outline timetable is below and we welcome requests or suggestions for topics and sessions. It is currently in development and very flexible.
Will the meeting be hybrid ?
Yes, we will provide a remote connection to the meeting.
First draft of the programme
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Morning to Lunch (13:00) | Lasair team available for tutorials, demos, discussions. Location : Astrophysics Data Laboratory, top floor of Tower (Level 7 of DWB) |
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13:00 - 13:50 Lunch (provided)
14:00 - 15:30 | Overview of Lasair ZTF and what changes we foresee for Lasair LSST (Chair: TBD) | |
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14:00 - 14:15 | Introduction and overview : Rubin project schedule and alerts | Stephen Smartt |
14:15 - 14:45 | Overview of Lasair | Roy Williams |
14:45 - 15:00 | Q&A on Lasair | Chair TBD |
15:00 - 15:15 | Catalogue cross-matching and Sherlock | Dave Young |
15:15 - 15:30 | Using the Lasair API | Ken Smith |
15:30 - 16:00 Tea
16:00 - 17:30 | Science cases - session I (Chair:TBD) | |
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16:00 - 16:20 | Lasair + TiDES | Chris Frohmaier |
16:20 - 16:40 | Lasair and fast transients | Matt Nicholl (TBD) |
16:40 - 17:00 | Lasair and slow transients | Phil Wiseman |
17:00 - 17:30 | Open Discussion time or additional science cases | |
Some suggested topics for discussion time : communication between Lasair and TIDES (transient classification),
Evening - drinks and dinner, locations TBD
Thursday September 14th
09:15 - 11:00 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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09:15 - 09:30 | Faint transients, outbursts, detection efficiencies | Morgan Fraser |
09:30 - 09:45 | NEEDLE - image classifier | Xinyue Shang |
09:45 - 10:00 | Searches for lensed transients with Lasair | Ana Sainz de Murieta, Mark Magee |
10:00 - 10:15 | LSST and lensing | Suhail Dhawan |
10:15 - 10:30 | Lasair user experience | Dan Ryzcanowski |
10:30 - 10:45 | Lasair user experience | Harry Addison |
10:45 - 11:00 | ||
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee
11:30 - 11:50 | Science case studies - session II (Chair:TBD) | |
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11:30 - 11:40 | Stellar binaries and variables with Lasair | Sarah Casewell |
11:40 - 11:50 | What Lasair can do for solar system and Adler | Meg Schwamb |
11:50 - 12:45 | Breakout group discussions. Break into groups, more detailed discussion about science and user requirements |
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Slow transients | |
Fast transients and GW counterparts | |
Lensed SNe | |
Stars and variability | |
Others to be decided at meeting |
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch (provided)
13:45 - 14:45 | Reports from groups |
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14:45 - 15:15 Tea
15:15 - 16:00 | Discussions and user requirements |
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16:00 Finish