Introduction
It’s conference season and, as George Beckett notes below, there are a number of LSST:UK-related meetings in the next few months. The first of those is the National Astronomy Meeting at Warwick, which includes parallel sessions on Preparing for the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time on the Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning, plus a talk on LSST:UK computing in the Discovery in Astronomy and Space Physics enabled by large-scale Digital Research Infrastructures (ASTROCOMP) session on the Monday morning.
Registration is also open (and will close on July 22nd) for both in-person and remote attendance of the 2022 Project and Community Workshop taking place in Tucson on August 8-12.
Finally, pre-registration is open for the LSST@Europe4 meeting, which we held in Rome on October 24-28. In-person attendance is limited to 100 people, so those wishing to attend in person should pre-register soon.
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.
LSST session at NAM
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Ian Shipsey and Daniel Philip Weatherill
Recent LSST:UK Science Centre outputs
The LSST:UK Science Centre has recently produced the following technical reports.
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Forthcoming meetings of interest
Several meetings of potential interest have been scheduled for the coming months:
25–29 October 2022 -- Rubin Observatory LSST@Europe4, at Accademia dei Lincei, Rome, Italy. The will be a hybrid meeting with a limited number of in-person spaces. Pre-registration is open now and those who wish to attend in-person are encouraged to complete pre-registration as soon as possible.
17–22 October 2022 – DESC Sprint Week, at University of Michigen, Ann Arbor. Details to be published on DESC members website (login required).
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.
25--29 July 2022 – Boom! A workshop on explosive transients with LSST is being hosted at University of Urbana-Chapaign, Urbana, in the week preceding the DESC Collaboration Meeting, to allow people to attend both meetings and reduce their overall travel costs.
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.
Those involved in the Rubin Data Delegates' Program are reminded that the first DP0.2 Delegate Assembly. will be held on Friday 8th July at 9am PT/ 5pm BST. More details have been posted on the Community Forum.
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.