LSST:UK at NAM 2026

We had four sessions at NAM 2026 in Birmingham: a three-block parallel entitled Early Science from the Rubin LSST, slides from whcih are presented below, and a lunch-time session organised by the Junior Associates Network, material from which is available here.

Early Science from the Rubin LSST

Session 1: Wednesday, 22 July

Session 1: Wednesday, 22 July
Update from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory	Bob Blum (remote)
Introduction to LSST and LSST:UK	Graham Smith
Introduction to the LSST:UK Junior Associate Network	Clara Pennock
Early Rubin/LSST science results in the Solar System [Videos: Slide 3, Slide 4, Slide 6]	Cyrielle Opitom

Session 2: Thursday, 23 July
Talk/demo: Lessons learned from Data Preview 1 and what to expect from Data Preview 2	Garreth Martin, James Mullaney and Jamie Robinson
Talk/demo: The Lasair alert broker and lessons learned from early alerts [Magill] [Gough-Kelly]	Dylan Magill, Steven Gough-Kelly
Q+A and discussion: Accessing early data and alerts	James Mullaney (Chair), Garreth Martin, Jamie Robinson, Dylan Magill, Steven Gough-Kelly

Session 3: Thursday, 23 July
The anisotropy of satellite galaxy quiescence and morphology in galaxy clusters	Charlie Hamilton
The AMPEL alert broker for LSST: a how-to guide	Alice Townsend
Towards Reliable Galaxy Property Inference for the LSST Era	Vivek Kumar Jha
The LSST Reliability Factor: Expert and Citizen Science Real/Bogus Classification	Joshua Weston
A novel approach to obtain unbiased galaxy clustering measurements with LSST	Thomas Cornish
Flash talks from poster presenters:
Calibration of Production Transient Alert Brokers: Preparing Decision Infrastructure for LSST	Pallavi Sati
How Well Can We Constrain Cosmology with Double-source-plane Lenses from LSST	Duncan Bowden
Extended Structure in E+A Galaxies via Image Stacking	Kieran Broadbelt