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.
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. Connections details for both online tools will be sent to registered attendees. Those new to GatherTown may wish to look at our How to use Gather.town for the LSST:UK conference page, while we also have a Slack LSST:UK Guide explaining the Slack channels we have set up to support the meeting.
Time | Title | Contributor |
|---|---|---|
10:30 - 12:30 | GatherTown Hangout and Poster Session | |
12:45 - 12:50 | 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 [Background Information] |
13:15 - 13:30 | Sugata Kaviraj | |
13:30 - 13:45 | 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 | ||
Session Chair : Nic Walton | (Slack: tues-rubin-obs-plenary-questions) | |
15:45 - 16:15 BST (07:45 - 08:15 PDT) | Bob Blum (Rubin Observatory Operations Director, Acting) | |
16:15 - 16:30 BST (08:15 - 08:30 PDT) | Q&A | Bob Blum, Phil Marshall (Deputy Operations Director, SLAC) |
16:30 - 17:00 BST (08:30 - 09:00 PDT) | Melissa Graham (Rubin Observatory) |
Time | Title | Contributor |
|---|---|---|
Session Chair : Meg Schwamb | (Slack: wed-plenary-questions) | |
09:30 - 09:45 | Graham Smith | |
09:45 - 10:00 | Seb Hoenig | |
10:00 - 10:15 | Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume: Science Collaboration update | Tom J Wilson |
10:15 - 10:30 | Tom J Wilson | |
10:30 - 10:45 | 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 | Meg Schwamb | |
11:45 - 12:00 | 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 : | 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 |
Time | Title | Contributor |
|---|---|---|
Session Chair : Sarah Casewell | (Slack: thurs-plenary-questions) | |
09:30 - 09:45 | Sara Bonito | |
09:45 - 10:00 | Processing other wide-area optical surveys with the LSST processing software | James Mullaney |
10:00 - 10:30 | Bob Mann and Stephen Smartt | |
10:30 - 10:45 | Nic Walton | |
10:45-11:15 | Tea/coffee break in GatherTown | |
Session Chair : Chris Frohmaier | (Slack: thurs-plenary-questions) | |
11:15 - 11:30 | Richard McMahon | |
11:30 - 11:45 | Isobel Hook | |
11:45 - 12:00 | 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 |
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).