StoryTime Domain

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Block Agenda

Monday 08/13

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast on Your Own

Coronado I

Summer Interns Mentoring Breakfast (8:00 AM - 8:50 AM)

Interns and invited guests

9:00am - 10:30am

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

Joshua Tree

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting

Michael Strauss

10:30am

Registration opens @ 10:30

11:00am - 12:30pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

Joshua Tree

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting

Michael Strauss

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch on your own

Agave III

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Lunch

Michael Strauss

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

LSST Software Community "Stack Club"

Phil Marshall

Presidio I

Summit Base ITC Design

Jeff Kantor

Presidio II

Summer Interns - Introduction to Themes of LSST2018

Pat Burchat

Presidio III/IV

Software Pathfinders and Integration

Tony Johnson, Michael Reuter

Coronado I

M1M3 Mirror Thermal Control System - Fan Coil Unit Testing Status

Gary Muller

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session 1

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Working Session

Michael Strauss

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

5:00 - 6:00pm

Student Intern Poster Session

Evening Events

LSSTC - International Contributors Reception

by Invitation Only

Dinner on Your Own

Tuesday 08/14

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Survey strategy and Scheduler

Tiago Ribeiro

Presidio I

Sensor Characterization, Analysis and Simulation

Chris Walter, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Aaron Roodman, Andrei Nomerotski

Presidio II

Telescope & Site Software Testing

Rob Bovill

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 1 - Challenges, Current Status and Future Plans for Addressing Blending in LSST Data Release Pipelines

Peter Melchior, Fred Moolekamp

Coronado I

Verification Software Tooling 1

Austin Roberts

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 2

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Administrative Optimization: CAS Processes (Working Session 1)

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

Observing Strategy White Paper workshop

Zeljko Ivezic and Lynne Jones

Presidio I

ComCam Planning and Scheduling

James Howard

Presidio II

Science Communication and Media Training

Amanda Bauer

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 2 - Overview of Blending Challenges for LSST Science

Sarah Brough

Coronado I

DM-SE Science Verification/Validation - Alert Production

Andy Connolly

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 3

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Administrative Optimization: Going to the Summit (Working Session 2)

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Joshua Tree

Cadences, DDF Locations, Mini-Surveys and Survey Extensions

Dan Scolnic

Presidio I

Assembly, Integration and Verification

Andrew Serio

Presidio II

Summer Interns - Machine Learning in Astronomy

Gordon Richards

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 3 - Hands-on Deblending: Simulations and Pipeline Tutorial

Fred Moolekamp, Sowmya Kamath

Coronado I

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) tool discussion

Michael Rodriguez

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 4

Jim Bosch

Agave III

DM-SE Science Verification/Validation - DRP

Keith Bechtol

5:30pm

Group Photo

Evening Events

RECEPTION

Wednesday 08/15

- ALL DAY -

Agave III

StoryTime-Domain Day 1

Amanda Bauer, Kristen Metzger, and Emily Acosta

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Survey Options 1 Exposure Times and Visit Counts

Stephen Ridgway

Presidio I

PSF Estimation

Aaron Roodman, Josh Meyers, Michael Schneider

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 4 - New Concepts for Object Detection and Deblending

Peter Melchior

Presidio V

Commissioning Verification Planning Working Session 1

Chuck Claver & Keith Bechtol

Coronado I

Communications Office update

Ranpal Gill & Communications Team

Coronado II

Pipeline Development and Cadence Optimization for Solar System Science

Henry Hsieh, David Trilling

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 5

Jim Bosch

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

Survey Options 2 Cadence and Dithering

Stephen Ridgway

Presidio II

EPO Open House

Amanda Bauer

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 5 - Tools and Data Sets for Developing and Evaluating Algorithms for Blended Objects

Pat Burchat, David Kirkby

Presidio V

Commissioning Verification Planning Working Session 2

Chuck Claver & Keith Bechtol

Coronado II

PMO Administrative Policy & Procedure Updates 1

Daniel Calabrese

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 6

Jim Bosch

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

UNCONFERENCE

Hosted by Federica Bianco, LSST Science Collaborations Chair

Coronado II

Short Term Assignments in Chile Update

Victor Krabbendam

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 7

Jim Bosch

5:00 - 6:00pm

Dinner on Your Own

Thursday 08/16

- ALL DAY -

Agave III

StoryTime-Domain Day 2

Amanda Bauer, Kristen Metzger, and Emily Acosta

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Supermassive Black Hole Science with the LSST

W. Niel Brandt

Presidio I

Interfacing with the Prompt Products Database

John Swinbank

Presidio II

PMO Administrative Policy & Procedure Updates 2

Daniel Calabrese

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 6 - Clues About Blending in the LSST Object Catalog

Sarah Brough, Harry Ferguson

Presidio V

Visualization Tools for Analysis and Commissioning

Chris Walter, Simon Krughoff, Gregory Dubois-Felsman and Keith Bechtol

Coronado I

Preparing to Do Solar System Science with LSST

Henry Hsieh, David Trilling

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 8

Jim Bosch

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Presidio II

Perfect Pixels. Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology.

Zeljko Ivezic and Rachel Mandelbaum

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 7 - Solar System Objects, Crowded Fields, and Other Specialized Blending Challenges

Henry Hsieh

Presidio V

Plans and Policies for LSST Alert Distribution

Eric Bellm

White Dove

Administrative Optimization (Working Session) 3

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 9

Jim Bosch

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Joshua Tree

Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter with LSST

Keith Bechtol

Presidio I

Upcoming DM middleware: “Generation 3” Butler and PipelineTask

John Swinbank

Presidio I

Active Optics Validation using Simulation

Sandrine Thomas

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 8 - Closeout for Workshop on Impacts of Blending on LSST Science

Sarah Brough, Pat Burchat, David Kirkby

Presidio V

Following-up LSST Alerts

Bryan Miller

Coronado I

Verification Software Tooling 2

Austin Roberts

Coronado II

DAQ System Delivery to NCSA: Roadmap to Installation & Use

Mike Huffer and Michael Reuter

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 10

Jim Bosch

5:00 - 6:00pm

Dinner on Your Own

Evening Events

Turquoise I/II

Exploring the Final Frontier with LSST

Ardis Herrold, Phil Marshall, Victor Krabbendam
Friday 08/17

8:00am - 9:00am

Presidio III/IV

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Joshua Tree

T&S Subsystem Verification Status

Andrew Serio

Presidio I

Time-Domain Spectroscopic Observatory

Zeljko Ivezic and Josh Grindlay

Presidio II

LSST Code of Conduct

Chris Montgomery

Coronado I

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 11

Jim Bosch

Coronado II

Commissioning Review Action Items Discussion

Chuck Claver

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Presidio III/IV

Grab & Go Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

3:00pm - 3:30pm

No Break Provided

3:30 - 5:00pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support
Monday 08/13

8:00am - 9:00am

Breakfast on Your Own

Coronado I

Summer Interns Mentoring Breakfast (8:00 AM - 8:50 AM)

Interns and invited guests

9:00am - 10:30am

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

Joshua Tree

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting

Michael Strauss

10:30am

Registration opens @ 10:30

11:00am - 12:30pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

Joshua Tree

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting

Michael Strauss

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch on your own

Agave III

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Lunch

Michael Strauss

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

LSST Software Community "Stack Club"

Phil Marshall

Presidio I

Summit Base ITC Design

Jeff Kantor

Presidio II

Summer Interns - Introduction to Themes of LSST2018

Pat Burchat

Presidio III/IV

Software Pathfinders and Integration

Tony Johnson, Michael Reuter

Coronado I

M1M3 Mirror Thermal Control System - Fan Coil Unit Testing Status

Gary Muller

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session 1

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Working Session

Michael Strauss

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

5:00 - 6:00pm

Student Intern Poster Session

Evening Events

LSSTC - International Contributors Reception

by Invitation Only

Dinner on Your Own

Tuesday 08/14

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Survey strategy and Scheduler

Tiago Ribeiro

Presidio I

Sensor Characterization, Analysis and Simulation

Chris Walter, Pierre Antilogus, Pierre Astier, Aaron Roodman, Andrei Nomerotski

Presidio II

Telescope & Site Software Testing

Rob Bovill

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 1 - Challenges, Current Status and Future Plans for Addressing Blending in LSST Data Release Pipelines

Peter Melchior, Fred Moolekamp

Coronado I

Verification Software Tooling 1

Austin Roberts

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 2

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Administrative Optimization: CAS Processes (Working Session 1)

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

Observing Strategy White Paper workshop

Zeljko Ivezic and Lynne Jones

Presidio I

ComCam Planning and Scheduling

James Howard

Presidio II

Science Communication and Media Training

Amanda Bauer

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 2 - Overview of Blending Challenges for LSST Science

Sarah Brough

Coronado I

DM-SE Science Verification/Validation - Alert Production

Andy Connolly

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 3

Jim Bosch

Agave III

Administrative Optimization: Going to the Summit (Working Session 2)

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Joshua Tree

Cadences, DDF Locations, Mini-Surveys and Survey Extensions

Dan Scolnic

Presidio I

Assembly, Integration and Verification

Andrew Serio

Presidio II

Summer Interns - Machine Learning in Astronomy

Gordon Richards

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 3 - Hands-on Deblending: Simulations and Pipeline Tutorial

Fred Moolekamp, Sowmya Kamath

Coronado I

Computerized Maintenance Management System (CMMS) tool discussion

Michael Rodriguez

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 4

Jim Bosch

Agave III

DM-SE Science Verification/Validation - DRP

Keith Bechtol

5:30pm

Group Photo

Evening Events

RECEPTION

Wednesday 08/15

- ALL DAY -

Agave III

StoryTime-Domain Day 1

Amanda Bauer, Kristen Metzger, and Emily Acosta

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Survey Options 1 Exposure Times and Visit Counts

Stephen Ridgway

Presidio I

PSF Estimation

Aaron Roodman, Josh Meyers, Michael Schneider

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 4 - New Concepts for Object Detection and Deblending

Peter Melchior

Presidio V

Commissioning Verification Planning Working Session 1

Chuck Claver & Keith Bechtol

Coronado I

Communications Office update

Ranpal Gill & Communications Team

Coronado II

Pipeline Development and Cadence Optimization for Solar System Science

Henry Hsieh, David Trilling

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 5

Jim Bosch

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Joshua Tree

Survey Options 2 Cadence and Dithering

Stephen Ridgway

Presidio II

EPO Open House

Amanda Bauer

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 5 - Tools and Data Sets for Developing and Evaluating Algorithms for Blended Objects

Pat Burchat, David Kirkby

Presidio V

Commissioning Verification Planning Working Session 2

Chuck Claver & Keith Bechtol

Coronado II

PMO Administrative Policy & Procedure Updates 1

Daniel Calabrese

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 6

Jim Bosch

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

UNCONFERENCE

Hosted by Federica Bianco, LSST Science Collaborations Chair

Coronado II

Short Term Assignments in Chile Update

Victor Krabbendam

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 7

Jim Bosch

5:00 - 6:00pm

Dinner on Your Own

Thursday 08/16

- ALL DAY -

Agave III

StoryTime-Domain Day 2

Amanda Bauer, Kristen Metzger, and Emily Acosta

8:00am - 9:00am

Turquoise III

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Joshua Tree

Supermassive Black Hole Science with the LSST

W. Niel Brandt

Presidio I

Interfacing with the Prompt Products Database

John Swinbank

Presidio II

PMO Administrative Policy & Procedure Updates 2

Daniel Calabrese

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 6 - Clues About Blending in the LSST Object Catalog

Sarah Brough, Harry Ferguson

Presidio V

Visualization Tools for Analysis and Commissioning

Chris Walter, Simon Krughoff, Gregory Dubois-Felsman and Keith Bechtol

Coronado I

Preparing to Do Solar System Science with LSST

Henry Hsieh, David Trilling

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 8

Jim Bosch

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Turquoise III

Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Presidio II

Perfect Pixels. Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology.

Zeljko Ivezic and Rachel Mandelbaum

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 7 - Solar System Objects, Crowded Fields, and Other Specialized Blending Challenges

Henry Hsieh

Presidio V

Plans and Policies for LSST Alert Distribution

Eric Bellm

White Dove

Administrative Optimization (Working Session) 3

Sandra Ortiz and Carol Chirino

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 9

Jim Bosch

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Turquoise Foyer

Afternoon Break

3:30 - 5:00pm

Joshua Tree

Astrophysical Probes of Dark Matter with LSST

Keith Bechtol

Presidio I

Upcoming DM middleware: “Generation 3” Butler and PipelineTask

John Swinbank

Presidio I

Active Optics Validation using Simulation

Sandrine Thomas

Presidio III/IV

Blending Workshop 8 - Closeout for Workshop on Impacts of Blending on LSST Science

Sarah Brough, Pat Burchat, David Kirkby

Presidio V

Following-up LSST Alerts

Bryan Miller

Coronado I

Verification Software Tooling 2

Austin Roberts

Coronado II

DAQ System Delivery to NCSA: Roadmap to Installation & Use

Mike Huffer and Michael Reuter

Agave I/II

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 10

Jim Bosch

5:00 - 6:00pm

Dinner on Your Own

Evening Events

Turquoise I/II

Exploring the Final Frontier with LSST

Ardis Herrold, Phil Marshall, Victor Krabbendam
Friday 08/17

8:00am - 9:00am

Presidio III/IV

Breakfast Provided

9:00am - 10:30am

Joshua Tree

T&S Subsystem Verification Status

Andrew Serio

Presidio I

Time-Domain Spectroscopic Observatory

Zeljko Ivezic and Josh Grindlay

Presidio II

LSST Code of Conduct

Chris Montgomery

Coronado I

DM Hack Session & LSST Stack Self Service Tutorial 11

Jim Bosch

Coronado II

Commissioning Review Action Items Discussion

Chuck Claver

10:30am - 11:00am

Turquoise Foyer

Morning Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Turquoise I/II

Plenary

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Presidio III/IV

Grab & Go Lunch Provided

1:30pm - 3:00pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support

3:00pm - 3:30pm

No Break Provided

3:30 - 5:00pm

Meeting room available

NO A/V or Logistical Support