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
Tuesday May 14th
- 09.00-10.30: Session 3: Dark Energy Science Collaboration (chair: Cosimo Inserra)
- 09:00-09:15 Phase A recap, /wiki/spaces/LUSCSWG/pages/614465537 : (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 (Will Hartley) 10m + 5 discussion
- 10.30-11.00: coffee
- 11.00-13.00: Session 4: DESC (cont'd) and time domain astronomy (chair: Tim Davis)
- 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) 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 Vincenzi) 15m + 5 discussion
- LSST and the TIDES survey with 4MOST (Elizabeth Swann) 10m + 5 discussion
- LSST:UK DEV : Phase B Transient Classification and Spectroscopic follow-up (Mark Sullivan) 10m + 5 discussion
- 11:00 - 11:40 DESC : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks
- 09.00-10.30: Session 3: Dark Energy Science Collaboration (chair: Cosimo Inserra)
- 13:00-14:00: lunch
- 14.00-15.00: Session 5: Time domain astronomy and commissioning (chair: Bob Mann)
- 14:00 - 14:30 Transients and time domain : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks
- Characterization of high-accretion outbursts in planet-forming YSOs (Carlos Contreras) 10m + 5m discussion
- LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA plans in LSST era of 2022+ (Steve Fairhurst) 10m + 5m discussion
- 14:30 - 15:00 Commissioning plans and opportunities (Aprajita Verma on behalf of Graham Smith, LSST:UK Commissioning Coordinator) 15m + 15m discussion
- 14:00 - 14:30 Transients and time domain : LSST:UK activities and contributed talks
- 15.00-15.30: tea
- 15.30-18.00: Session 6: Galactic astronomy, machine learning and Project status (chair: Stephen Smartt)
- 15:30 - 16:25 Stellar populations and Milky way science
- LSST:UK DEV : Cross-matching at faint magnitudes (Tim Naylor) 15m + 5 discussion
- Lessons from and Synergies with Gaia (Wyn Evans) 15m + 5 discussion
- Variable stars, transients and false positives: lessons from VVV/VVVX (Phil Lucas) 10m + 5 discussion
- 16.25 - 17.05: Machine learning in the UK : short 10 min highlight talks
- Using Deep Learning in the Search for Galaxy Clusters (Matthew Chan)
- Optimising a spectroscopic training sample for photometric classification of supernova with machine learning’ (Jon Carrick)
- Automated Analysis of strong lenses with ML (Nan Li)
- A Machine Learning Approach for Studying Galaxy Kinematics with ALMA in Preparation for the SKA (James Dawson)
- 17.15-18.00: LSST Construction Status Update (Steve Kahn, LSST Director) and LSST Operations (Bob Blum, LSST Acting Operations Director)
- 15:30 - 16:25 Stellar populations and Milky way science
Wednesday, May 15th:
- 09.00-10.30: Session 7: Strong lensing and Galaxies (chair: Bob Mann)
- LSST:UK DEV : LSST Strong Lensing update (Aprajita Verma) 20m + 5 discussion
- Strong Gravitational Lensing of Gravitational Waves by Galaxy Clusters, M Bianconi
- Cosmological applications of LSST Strong Lensing (Tom Collett) 15m + 5 discussion
- Characterising low surface brightness galaxies in the field using large sky surveys (Daniel Prole) 15m + 5 discussion
- Using and adapting the LSST processing pipeline (Lydia Makrygianni) 15m + 5 discussion
- 10.30-11.00: coffee
- 11.00-12:15: Session 8: Multi-wavelength data fusion and LSST:UK DAC priorities (chair: Stephen Smartt)
- LSST:UK DEV : Multi-wavelength data fusion (Richard McMahon) 25m + 5 discussion
- Predicted yield of redshift 7 < z < 9 quasars from the Euclid wide survey (Steve Warren) 15m + 5 discussion
- Discussion of User requirements for Multi-wavelength data access in the DAC (30 mins) chaired by Richard McMahon
- 12:15 - 13:15 Session 9: Discussion items (arising from meeting) (chair: Bob Mann)
- Meeting wrap-up (Bob Mann)
- 09.00-10.30: Session 7: Strong lensing and Galaxies (chair: Bob Mann)
- 13:15-14:00: lunchTime after lunch for parallel discussions - or go home
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