Programme for the Rubin alerts and broker workshop - Oxford 2025

Location : Denys Wilkinson Building, Department of Physics, Keble Road, Oxford

Presentations: Please send your slides via email to Ken Smith (ken.smith@physics.ox.ac.uk)

Schedule

Tuesday 14th January

09:30 - 10:00 Coffee - Tea (Level5 Foyer)

10:00 - 12:00 (Dennis Sciama)
Chair for session : Kate Maguire
Zoom convenor: James Gillanders

10:00 - 10:20	Introduction and the latest on the LSST Survey Stratgy from the SCOC Stephen Smartt (Oxford)

10:00 - 10:20	Introduction and the latest on the LSST Survey Stratgy from the SCOC Stephen Smartt (Oxford)
10:20 - 10:50	Status of the Rubin Alert Production Eric Bellm (University of Washington)
10:50 - 11:10	Q&A with Eric
11:10 - 11:35	Lasair broker - what’s new and questions for users Roy Williams (University of Edinburgh)
11:35 - 12:00	Fink Broker : current status and synergies with Lasair Julien Peloton (CNRS/IJCLab)
12:00 - 12:10	Workshop photograph

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Level5 Foyer)

13:00 - 15:00 (Dennis Sciama)

Chari for session : Matt Nicholl
Zoom convenor: Shubham Srivastav

13:00 - 13:25	Ampel and LSST (Jakob van Stanten)

13:00 - 13:25	Ampel and LSST (Jakob van Stanten)
13:25 - 13:50	Personalized science modules: adaptive learning in Fink Emile Ishida (CNRS/LPCA)
13:50 - 14:15	Discussion : real - bogus classification in LSST and purity vs completeness Heloise Stevance (Oxford)
14:15 - 14:40	Lasair : Sherlock Upgrades Dave Young (QUB)
14:40 - 15:00	Identifying Transient Hosts in the Deep Drilling Fields Josh Weston (QUB)

15:00 - 15:30 Tea/Coffee (Level 5 Foyer)

15:30 - 17:00 (Dennis Sciama)

Chair for session : Emile Ishida
Zoom convenor: Ken Smith

15:30 - 15:50	(updates on) Finding lensed SNe with Lasair Dan Ryczanowski (Portsmouth)

15:30 - 15:50	(updates on) Finding lensed SNe with Lasair Dan Ryczanowski (Portsmouth)
15:50 - 16:10	DeepGraviLens: a multi-modal architecture for classifying gravitational lensing data Nicolò Oreste Pinciroli Vago (INAF OAR Rome, Politecnico di Milano)
16:10 - 16:30	Extreme AGN variability in Rubin/LSST alerts Matthew Temple (Southampton)
16:30 - 16:50	Citizen Science in the Alert Stream Chris Lintott (Oxford)

Dinner in Christ Church College : 7.30 drinks, dinner served at 8:00.

Dinner is in the McKenna room, drinks are in the ante-hall, outside the Great Hall. At the porter’s desk ask for directions to Hall and tell them it is for the “Rubin dinner”.

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Wednesday 15th January

09:30 - 11:00 (Dennis Sciama)

Chair for session : Cyrielle Opitom
Zoom convenor: Jack Tweddle

09:30 - 09:55	Finding rare transients with ML (NEEDLE) Matt Nicholl (QUB)

09:30 - 09:55	Finding rare transients with ML (NEEDLE) Matt Nicholl (QUB)
09:55 - 10:20	Breakthrough Listen and Optical Technosignatures Andrew Siemion (Oxford)
10:20 - 10:40	Adler overview Colin Snodgrass (Edinburgh)
10:40 - 11:00	Adler: a solar system transient classifier for the LSST Jamie Robinson (Edinburgh) and Steph Merrit (QUB)

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee - Tea (Level5 Foyer)

11:30 - 13:00 (Dennis Sciama)
All talks 15mins + 5mins

Chair for session : Cosimo Inserra
Zoom convenor: Ken Smith

11:30 - 11:50	Stellar and periodic variables in LSST data [TBD] Sarah Casewell (Leicester)

11:30 - 11:50

Stellar and periodic variables in LSST data [TBD]
Sarah Casewell (Leicester)

11:50 - 12:10

The Black Hole Hunters project
Adam McMaster (Southampton)

12:10 - 12:30

Lessons Learned from a Secondary Survey
Aaron Do (Cambridge)

12:30 - 12:50

TIDES Dataflow
Chris Frohmaier (Southampton)

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (provided) (Level 5 Foyer)