This is a virtual meeting on 11th - 13th May. To facilitate informal interactions, it will use a virtual conference venue in GatherTown, as well as having more conventional talk sessions delivered through Zoom. Connections details for both online tools will be sent to registered attendees.
Additionally, before the first day and after the second two days there will be two-hour GatherTown sessions in which to catch up with colleagues, read posters, and organise small group meetings. Most sessions are plenary but there are some parallel Focus Sessions.
All sessions are in Zoom, except for those in purple, which take place in GatherTown. Connection details for both Zoom and GatherTown will be emailed to registered attendees.
Tuesday 11th May [10:30 - 17:00 BST]
Time | Title | Contributor |
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10:30 - 12:30 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session | |
12:45 - 12:50 | Welcome and meeting overview | Bob Mann and Stephen Smartt |
Session Chair : Stephen Smartt | (Slack: tues-lsst-uk-plenary) | |
12:50 - 13:15 | LSST:UK in-kind contributions proposal : update and status. 15 min talk, 10 mins Q&A | Bob Mann [Summary reference document to be provided] |
13:15 - 13:30 | Galaxies: Science Collaboration update | Sugata Kaviraj |
13:30 - 13:45 | DESC: Science Collaboration update | Danielle Leonard |
13:45 - 14:00 | Current state of photometric redshift preparations for Rubin | Peter Hatfield |
14.00-14.30 | Coffee break in GatherTown | |
14:30 - 14:45 | Intro session for Early Career Researchers and those new to Rubin & LSST:UK | Adam Amara [Background info] |
14:45 - 15:45 | Flash talks | |
Session Chair : Nic Walton | (Slack: tues-rubin-obs-plenary-questions) | |
15:45 - 16:15 BST (07:45 - 08:15 PDT) | Rubin Observatory Status Update | Bob Blum (Rubin Observatory Operations Director) |
16:15 - 16:30 BST (08:15 - 08:30 PDT) | Q&A | Bob Blum, Amanda Bauer (Deputy Director NOIRLab), Phil Marshall (Deputy Operations Director) |
16:30 - 17:00 BST (08:30 - 09:00 PDT) | Data Preview 0 | Melissa Graham (Rubin Observatory) |
Wednesday 12th May [09:30 - 16:00]
Time | Title | Contributor |
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Session Chair : Meg Schwamb | (Slack: wed-plenary-questions) | |
09:30 - 09:45 | Commissioning and UK contributions | Graham Smith |
09:45 - 10:00 | AGN: Science Collaboration update | Seb Hoenig |
10:00 - 10:15 | Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume: Science Collaboration update | Tom J Wilson |
10:15 - 10:30 | Implementing an Accurate and Precise Catalogue Cross-Match Service, Including Flux Information and the Effects of Blended Objects | Tom J Wilson |
10:30 - 10:45 | Strong Lensing: Science Collaboration update | Aprajita Verma |
10:45-11:15 | Tea/coffee break in GatherTown | |
Session Chair : John Stott | (Slack: wed-plenary-questions) | |
11:15 - 11:30 | Assessing the LSST Sky Subtraction’s potential impact on low surface brightness science | Aaron Watkins |
11:30 - 11:45 | Solar System: Science Collaboration update | Meg Schwamb |
11:45 - 12:00 | The Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) | Chris Frohmaier |
12:00 - 13:00 | Parallel Focus Session: Solar System (Slack: wed-focus-solar-system) Talks : Colin Snodgrass: The importance of LSST to ESA’s Comet interceptor mission Alan Fitzsimmons : SOXS - a fast response follow-up spectrograph on the NTT Jamie Robinson : Asteroid Phase Curves with ATLAS, a Precursor to LSST Parallel Focus Session : Rubin Transient Science and Lasair (Slack: wed-focus-transient-lasair) Talks : Laurence Datrier : Effects of LSST Observing strategies on multi-messenger prospects and serendipitous kilonova discoveries Catarina Sampaio Alves: Considerations for optimizing photometric classification of supernovae from the Rubin Observatory | Meg Schwamb (Solar System) Stephen Smartt, Catarina Sampaio Alves, Roy Williams, Ken Smith & Andy Lawrence (Lasair and Transients) |
14:00 - 16:00 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session |
Thursday 13th May [09:30 - 16:00]
Time | Title | Contributor |
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Session Chair : Sarah Casewell | (Slack: thurs-plenary-questions) | |
09:30 - 09:45 | Transients and Variable stars: Science Collaboration update | Sara Bonito |
09:45 - 10:00 | Processing other wide-area optical surveys with the LSST processing software | James Mullaney |
10:00 - 10:30 | LSST:UK In-kind and Phase C | Bob Mann and Stephen Smartt |
10:30 - 10:45 | Other missions and synergy: Gaia | Nic Walton |
10:45-11:15 | Tea/coffee break in GatherTown | |
Session Chair : Chris Frohmaier | (Slack: thurs-plenary-questions) | |
11:15 - 11:30 | Other missions and synergy: 4MOST | Richard McMahon |
11:30 - 11:45 | Other missions and synergy: EUCLID | Isobel Hook |
11:45 - 12:00 | Other missions and synergy : Simons Observatory | David Alonso |
12:00 - 13:00 | Focus Session: Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products Working Group (Slack: thurs-focus-rubin-euclid) | Catherine Heymans, Manda Banerji, Tom Collett, Chris Conselice, Isobel Hook |
14:00 - 16:00 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session |
Focus Sessions
Solar System. LSST is slated to make a significant contribution to the study of the Solar System, delivering over a billion highly precise observations of millions of Solar System objects (5mmag photometry and 10mas astrometry, per observation, at the bright end). This session will focus on how the UK community can best take advantage of the LSST dataset and leverage UK observing and follow-up resources.and contact the session organiser (Meg Schwamb : m.schwamb at qub.ac.uk) with any questions.
Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products Working Group (convenor: Catherine Heymans, Manda Banerji, Tom Collett, Chris Conselice, Isobel Hook) : The UK members of the Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products Working Group (DDP-WG) seek your input on which joint data products would facilitate your science goals. This focus session will start in plenary mode to introduce the working group. We will then move to a series of different science-themed breakout room discussions. At the end of the session we'll post the ideas that have come out our LSST:UK discussion onto the international DDP-WG Forum.
Rubin Transient Science and Lasair (convenors: Stephen Smartt, Catarina Sampaio Alves, Roy Williams, Ken Smith and Andy Lawrence) : this will be an informal discussion with users of Lasair, with a particular outlook to the evolution to LSST data in comparison to the ZTF experiment we are running. We welcome contributions of any length (short flash talks, 10-15min science examples, user suggestions and requirements, early career introductions) and will structure the discussion around those. To give a talk, please contact the session organisers (Roy Williams roy at roe.ac.uk) with any questions).