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

Owned by Bob Mann
Last updated: Jun 05, 2017

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):


TimeTitleSpeaker
10.00coffee
10.30Introduction: UK involvement in LSSTBob Mann (Edinburgh)
10.45LSST project statusBeth Willman (LSST) & Ian Shipsey (Oxford),
presented by Andy Lawrence (Edinburgh)
11.20Solar SystemWes Fraser (QUB)
11.40Transients and Variable StarsMark Sullivan (Southampton)
12.00Stars, Milky Way and Local VolumePhil Lucas (Herts)
12.20GalaxiesSugata Kaviraj (Herts)
12.40Active Galatic NucleiCarole Mundell (Bath)
13.00Lunch
14.00Dark Energy ScienceBenjamin Joachimi (UCL)
14.20Informatics and StatisticsJason McEwen (UCL)
14.40Synergies with Euclid and SKADavid Bacon (Portsmouth)
14.55

Follow-up with Liverpool Telescope 2

Chris Copperwheat (Liverpool JMU)
15.10LSST and UK particle physicsIan Shipsey (Oxford)
15.25Wrap-up
15.30End

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