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• Monday, May 13th

  • (10.00-13.00: LSST:UK Consortium Board meeting)
  • 13.00-14.00: lunch
  • 14.00-15.30: Session 1: LSST:UK Summary and Overview (chair: Tim Naylor)
    •  Introduction and UK status report (Bob Mann, LSST:UK Project Leader)    30m + 5 discussion 
    •  DAC Phase A review and Phase B plans (George Beckett, LSST:UK Project Manager)  30m + 5 discussion 
    • LSST:UK DEV : Low surface brightness and ML for galaxy classification in Phase B (Sugata Kaviraj)  15m + 5 discussion 
  • 15.30-16.00: tea
  • 16.00-17.15: Session 2: Strategic issues for LSST - ODF and Survey Strategy (chair: Bob Mann)
    • ODF and what it means for UK (discussion - Bob Mann and Stephen Smartt) 
    • Survey strategy and discussion - view from the SAC (Stephen Smartt) 
  • 18:00: Evening reception

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• Tuesday May 14th 

  • 09.00-10.30: Session 3: Dark Energy Science Collaboration (chair: Cosimo Inserra)
    • 09:00-09:15  Phase A recap, Phase B plan and UK User requirements : (Mann/Smartt)   15m
    • 09:15-10:30    DESC : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks  
      • LSST:UK DEV : Phase A Weak Lensing (Joe Zuntz)  15m + 5 discussion
      • LSST:UK DEV : Phase B UK's contribution to DESC operations (Joe Zuntz)  15m + 5 discussion
      • Precision cosmological predictions for LSST: the Core Cosmology Library (Elisa Chisari) 15m + 5 discussion 
      • LSST:UK DEV : Photoz estimates (W. Hartley) 10m + 5 discussion
  • 10.30-11.00: coffee
  • 11.00-13.00: Session 4: DESC (cont'd) and time domain astronomy (chair: Aprajita Verma)
    • 11:00 - 11:40 DESC : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks  
      • Cosmology from Large-Scale Structure with LSST (David Alonso)  15m + 5 discussion
      • LSST:UK DEV : Phase A (and B) Detector characterisation at Oxford (Dan Weatherill TBC) 15m + 5 discussion
    • 11.40-13.00:  Transients and time domain : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks 
      • LSST:UK DEV/DAC : Lasair - the UK Transient Broker for LSST. Progress and plans (Roy  Williams)  25m+5m discussion
      • LSST:UK DEV  Phase A : Spectrophotometric templates of core collapse supernovae for light curve simulations in the LSST era.  (Maria Vicenzi) 15m + 5 discussion
      • LSST:UK DEV : Phase B Transient Classification and Spectroscopic follow-up (Mark Sullivan) 10m + 5 discussion
      • LSST and the TIDES survey with 4MOST (L. Elizabeth Swann)  10m + 5 discussion

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