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Introduction
Rubin Users Committee https://community.lsst.org/t/announcing-the-rubin-users-committee/6365
DP0.2 sign up (deadline 30 April) https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScBFpoavplHBnwnI_NqUCKh72gzpYjaCwoT2BC6d5ilsvJf5w/viewform
PCW2022: “some sessions (plenaries and general-interest sessions) virtually accessible for those who cannot attend in person.”
Announcements: DAC jobs
Exec Group elections
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.
Executive Group elections
The current terms of three of the five elected members of the LSST:UK Executive Group come to an end in April 2022. We shall launch the formal election process via a dedicated email to the lusc-announce list in mid-April, but this newsletter item is intended to encourage people to consider putting themselves forward for one of the three vacancies.
Our governance document notes that “The principal role of the Executive Group is to fulfil, on a more regular cadence, the role of the Board in providing guidance to the project leadership and ensuring that the project is progressing to the maximal benefit of the UK community” while it “also has a quality assurance role in the assessment of project deliverables and consideration of change requests (described in more detail in the Project Management Plan) and may provide comments (e.g. in the evaluation of pool travel proposals) when administrative tasks within the Consortium require scientific input”. To that end, the Exec Group meets monthly by videoconference (for ~60 minutes), with occasional email traffic between meetings, with membership offering insight into the workings of the Rubin Observatory and LSST:UK, as well as the chance to help steer the work of the latter.
My email to the lusc-announce list in a couple of weeks' time will solicit nominations - including self-nominations - to be sent to me by a deadline in late April, along with a brief statement summarising the nominee’s involvement to date in LSST and LSST:UK that will be shared with the Consortium Board, who will act as the electorate in the event that there are more nominees than vacancies.
Those wishing more information about the role of Exec Group member are welcome to contact myself or Bob Mann, and, as with all Consortium positions, we particularly encourage applications from those who would enhance the diversity of the Consortium leadership.
Report from the Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products Working Group
Recent LSST:UK Science Centre outputs
The LSST:UK Science Centre has recently produced the following technical report.
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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
8-12 August 2022. 2022 Project and Community Workshop, Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Resort, Tucson.
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.