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Introduction
Construction Project appointments (https://www.lsst.org/news/željko-ivezić-appointed-director-rubin-observatory-construction and email of 21/12/21)
Zeljko Ivezic - Director
Sandrine Thomas - Deputy Director
Steve Ritz - Project Scientist
Rubin Xmas card - https://www.lsst.org/content/holiday-card
Call for DP0.2 Delegates - https://community.lsst.org/t/early-announcement-for-phase-2-of-data-preview-0-dp0-2/6191
Dark and Quiet Skies II report - https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22002
From Data to Software to Science - https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ICR389M_wtx5WMVX5SQwXPSdrD-1KhoSkiGd31lRrmE/viewform?edit_requested=true
Lasair support in Community - https://community.lsst.org/t/proposed-new-category-in-support-lasair-broker/6229
SCOC Phase 1 Recommendations final - https://community.lsst.org/t/scoc-phase-1-recommendations/6237
Those with ideas for future newsletter items should contact the LSST:UK Project Managers (George Beckett and Terry Sloanlusc_pm@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk), while everyone is encouraged to subscribe to the Rubin Observatory Digest for more general news from the US observatory team.
Rubin-Euclid DDPs
Summary of Consortium Board meeting
Leadership positions held by LSST:UK members
Here’s the latest list of significant leadership positions held by members of the LSST:UK consortium in the project and international Science Collaborations. This is the list submitted to the STFC in the most recent Project Assurance Report. If you are aware of any corrections or additions please contact the LSST:UK Project Managers (George Beckett and Terry Sloan: lusc_pm@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk).
D. Alonso: co-convenor of the DESC External Synergies Working Group, member of the LSST DESC Membership Committee, DESC Liaison with Simons Observatory.
C. Alves: member of the LSST DESC Collaboration Council.
M. Banerji: co-chair of the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration, member of the Rubin-Euclid DDP Working Group and a member of the Rubin Contribution Evaluation Committee.
M. Bannister: LSST Solar System Science Collaboration Outer Solar System Working Group lead, member of the of the Rubin Contribution Evaluation Committee
M.G.Beckett: member of the LSST DESC High-performance computing resources committee;
R. Bowler: co-chair of the SED fitting and Photometric Redshifts WG in the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration.
P. Bull: member of DESC Publication Board.
T. Collett: member of the Rubin-Euclid DDP Working Group.
P. Hatfield: co-chair of the Galaxy Environment WG in the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration.
C. Heymans: UK representative on DESC Operations Committee, member of DESC Advisory Board, member of the Rubin-Euclid DDP Working Group.
S. Kaviraj: co-chair of the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration; co-chair of the Low Surface Brightness Coordination Group (This is the first community driven Community Group).
B Leistedt: co-convenor of the Large Scale Structure (LSS) Working Group; co-chair of the LSST DESC Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
D. Leonard: DESC Core Cosmology Library topical team lead, member of the LSST DESC Publication Board and Collaboration Council.
C. Lintott: leads the LSST EPO development of Zooniverse as a citizen science platform.
J. Mullaney: Chair of the Active Galactic Nuclei WG in the LSST Galaxies Science Collaboration.
H. Peiris: member of the Rubin Observatory Survey Cadence Optimization Committee (SCOC).
M. Schwamb: co-chair of Solar System Science Collaboration, member of the Rubin Observatory Survey Cadence Optimization Committee (SCOC).
S. Smartt: member of the LSST Science Advisory Committee.
G. Smith: co-chair of the LSST Strong Lensing Science Collaboration (SLSC) and Commissioning Liaison for the LSST SLSC.
M. Sullivan: co-convener of the DESC Time Domain Working Group, member of DESC Speakers Bureau Policy Committee, DESC Liaison with 4MOST/TiDES.
A. Verma: chair of the Strong Lensing Working Group in the Galaxies Science Collaboration, member of the Rubin Observatory LSST Contribution Evaluation Committee, chair of the Software Sub-committee and International Program Coordinator in the Rubin Director’s Office (from Jan 2021).
A. Watkins: co-chair of the low-surface-brightness working group within the LSST Galaxies Science collaboration, co-lead of the LSST LSB challenge 1: "How do LSST algorithms do at detecting LSB sources; co-chair of the Low Surface Brightness Coordination Group.
C. Woolford: Member of the LSST DESC International Resources Committee.
J. Zuntz: DESC Deputy computing and simulations coordinator.
Recent LSST:UK Science Centre outputs
The LSST:UK Science Centre has recently produced the following technical reports.
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Forthcoming meetings of interest
Several meetings of potential interest have been scheduled for the coming months.
Note that the current list of forthcoming meeting is always available on the Relevant Meetings page. You may also wish to check information held on the LSST organisation website LSST-organised events and the LSST Corporation website
21-25 February 2022. DESC (virtual) consortium meeting.
Announcements
If you have significant announcements that are directly relevant to LSST:UK and would like to share the announcement in a future newsletter, please contact the LSST:UK project managers.
(RGM: check with Andy Connolly re UW positions)