Rubin alerts and broker workshop - Oxford 2025
- Stephen Smartt
Local Organising Committee : Stephen Smartt, Heloise Stevance, James Gillanders, Shubham Srivastav, Cigdem Arnison, Ken Smith
Scientific Organising Committe : The Lasair Team.
Location : Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, Keble Road, Oxford
Deadline for full registration (to include dinner in Christ Church): 13th December 2024
Final deadline for registration for attendance (dinner will not be possible if you register after 13th December) : 5th January 2025
Eric Bellm from the Rubin Data Management team will visit Oxford from Monday January 13th to Thursday January 16th. The Lasair Team will host a workshop around Eric’s visit to discuss the latest news on LSST alerts and broker provision. The workshop will run from Tuesday 14th January (10:00, with coffee and chat from 09:30) until Lunchtime on Wednesday 15th. Lunch is provided both days and there is no registration fee.
Eric leads the team at the University of Washington who are building the real-time data processing pipelines for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. He is the Alert Production Science lead and is also the Survey Scientist for the Zwicky Transient Facility. With ComCam on the Simonyi telescope now and observing the sky, and LSSTCam to come in early 2025, this LSST:UK community workshop will discuss the latest updates from the Rubin Data Management team. This will inform our final development stage for the Lasair broker as we approach the start of LSST alerts in 2025.
We encourage in person attendance at the event to discuss what we can jointly achieve between the Rubin Alert Production team and the brokers.
We will make provision for hybrid attendance. Personnel from other brokers are very welcome to attend, although our timing will be most suited to European time zones (two mornings GMT).
Registration
By signing up for attendance, you must explicitly accept to abide by the LSST:UK Code of Conduct, and write YES in the box blow. Please read this document before accepting.
LSST:UK Contact Persons for this meeting for CoC issues : 2 people from the community TBD
Registration can be completed by filling in your details on the meeting website :
Rubin Alerts and Broker Workshop - Oxford 2025
The schedule for the meeting will also be on the google page above.
Programme
The programme for Tuesday and Wednesday is available on this page.
SOC Page for organisation (restricted)
Lasair Users Group
We will host the second meeting of the Lasair Users Group on the afternoon of the Wednesday 15th January.
Wednesday afternoon and Thursday - unconference sessions
Eric and the Lasair team will be around for informal discussions on Wednesday and Thursday. You are welcome to stay a little longer if you want to interact with the team. Contact us and let us know if you plan to do so.
Accommodation Options :
Discussion items and questions
To make best use of our discussion time, we encourage you to ask questions and highlight discussion items in advance. With LSST data approaching, there may be many technical and detailed questions, that we would be happy to answer. Please add below
1. Will we see any example alerts coming from re-processed ComCam data, which are exactly in the same schema as the LSSTCam alerts ?
If you require this document in an alternative format, please contact the LSST:UK Project Managers lusc_pm@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk or phone +44 131 651 3577