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.
To accommodate Rubin Observatory staff, the first day will be in the afternoon UK time (13:00 - 17:00 BST), and the second two days will be mornings (09:30 to 13:00 BST). 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.
Focus sessions are in purple and may take place via Zoom or GatherTown (TBC). Otherwise, others are plenary, through Zoom.
PDT = Pacific Daylight Time = BST - 8hrs
Focus Sessions
To offer a talk in one of the focus sessions listed below, please contact the convenor(s) directly.
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).
Tuesday 11th May [10:30 - 17:00 BST]
Time | Title | Contributor |
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10:30 - 12:30 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session | [LOC to organise] |
12:45 - 12:50 | Welcome and meeting overview | |
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 |
14:45 - 15:45 | Focus session : Flash talks | LOC to convene and organise |
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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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 Wilson |
10:15 - 10:30 | Implementing an Accurate and Precise Catalogue Cross-Match Service, Including Flux Information and the Effects of Blended Objects | Tom Wilson |
10:30 - 10:45 | Strong Lensing: Science Collaboration update | Aprajita Verma |
10:45-11:15 | Tea/coffee break in GatherTown | |
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 | Informatics and Statistics: Science Collaboration update | [TBC] |
12:00 - 13:00 | Parallel Focus Session: Solar System Parallel Focus Session : Lasair and Transients. With talks from : Laurence Datrier : Effects of LSST Observing strategies on multi-messenger prospects and serendipitous kilonova discoveries Chris Frohmaier : The Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) | See above for details and organisers |
14:00 - 16:00 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session |
Thursday 13th May [09:30 - 16:00]
Time | Title | Contributor |
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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 | |
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 | See above for details and organisers |
14:00 - 16:00 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session |