RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting on LSST (2017-05-12)

The RAS are hosting a Special Discussion Meeting on LSST on Friday, 12 May 2017. It will take place in the rooms of The Geological Society, in Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BG, starting at 10.30 and ending at 15.30. It will be followed at 16.00 by the RAS Annual General Meeting.

The programme for the meeting is as follows (also available as PDF scan of original):

Time	Title	Speaker

Time	Title	Speaker
10.00	coffee
10.30	Introduction: UK involvement in LSST	Bob Mann (Edinburgh)
10.45	LSST project status	Beth Willman (LSST) & Ian Shipsey (Oxford), presented by Andy Lawrence (Edinburgh)
11.20	Solar System	Wes Fraser (QUB)
11.40	Transients and Variable Stars	Mark Sullivan (Southampton)
12.00	Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume	Phil Lucas (Herts)
12.20	Galaxies	Sugata Kaviraj (Herts)
12.40	Active Galatic Nuclei	Carole Mundell (Bath)
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Dark Energy Science	Benjamin Joachimi (UCL)
14.20	Informatics and Statistics	Jason McEwen (UCL)
14.40	Synergies with Euclid and SKA	David Bacon (Portsmouth)
14.55	Follow-up with Liverpool Telescope 2	Chris Copperwheat (Liverpool JMU)
15.10	LSST and UK particle physics	Ian Shipsey (Oxford)
15.25	Wrap-up
15.30	End