Introduction
Reminder - PCW2022 (https://project.lsst.org/meetings/rubin2022/ )
Camera progress - https://www.lsst.org/news/lsst-camera-progress-together-last
LSSTC: “Dr. Beth Willman will join LSSTC on September 7th, 2022, to become its next Executive Director, taking on the previously separate roles of Chief Executive Officer and Director of Science. Pat Eliason, the current Chief Executive Officer, will overlap with Beth for a few weeks to ensure a smooth transition for the Corporation, and will retire at the end of September. Dr. Jeno Sokoloski will begin her transition from Director of Science to Director of LSSTC’s Catalyst Fellowship and LINCC-related programs.” from https://www.lsst.org/news/digest
RSP User Experience - https://community.lsst.org/t/the-rubin-science-platform-user-experience-recorded-presentation/6576
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
NAM sessions
Pool Travel Fund
LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program
Forthcoming meetings of interest
Several meetings of potential interest have been scheduled for the coming months:
8-12 August 2022 – 2022 Project and Community Workshop, Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain Resort, Tucson. This is primarily an in-person event, though some sessions (plenaries and general-interest sessions) will be virtually accessible for those who cannot attend in person.
1–5 August 2022 – the next DESC Collaboration Meeting will be held during 1st–5th August at the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics at the University of Chicago. More details will be available soon on the DESC Confluence site (login required).
11–15 July 2022 – National Astronomy Meeting is being held at Warwick University. In particular, two parallel sessions may be of interest: Preparing for the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time organised by LSST:UK; and Discovery in Astronomy and Space Physics enabled by large-scale Digital Research Infrastructures (ASTROCOMP) organised by the IRIS programme.
Members of the Consortium (not in receipt of travel funding through one of the Science Centre grants) may apply for travel support for meetings of this kind via the the LSST:UK Pool Travel Fund. Details are available at https://lsst-uk.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HOME/pages/25853997/LSST+UK+Pool+Travel+Fund .
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.
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.