LSST:UK All Hands Meeting, Programme for (13th—15th May 2019)

• 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 (Will 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 (Elizabeth Swann)  10m + 5 discussion

• • 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
      • LSST's role in discovering strongly-lensed NS-NS mergers (Graham Smith) 10m + 5m discussion
    • 14:30 - 15:00  Commissioning plans and opportunities (Graham Smith, LSST:UK Commissioning Coordinator)  15m + 15m discussion
  • 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: Project Status Report (Steve Kahn, LSST Director and Bob Blum, LSST Acting Operations Director)

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• Wednesday, May 15th:

  • 09.00-10.30: Session 7: Strong lensing and Galaxies (chair: Graham Smith)
    
    • LSST:UK DEV : LSST Strong Lensing update (Aprajita Verma) 20m + 5 discussion
    •  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)
  1. Commissioning fields (Graham Smith)
  2. Future funding opportunities (Aprajita Verma)   

• 13:15-14:00: lunch
• Time after lunch for parallel discussions - or go home

Summary of invited/submitted talks - for LOC/SOC use