The Active Optics System (AOS) pipeline requires validation most likely but not necessarily using PhoSim. This session would go through the existing code and algorithm status and discussion plans for the AOS pipeline validation. In addition to the curvature wavefront pipeling and the optmal controller, the algorithm list  includes for instance Source Selection, ISR removal for WFS, Kalman filtering …

Agenda: 

1) Active Optcs System quick summary (Sandrine)

2) Active Optics System status (Te-Wei)

3) Validation Strategy (Sandrine and Bo)

A working session to discuss CAS differences in processes between North and South: Reqless & Licenses

Break 3:00-3:30
Turquoise Foyer

Break 3:00-3:30
Turquoise Foyer

The goal of the session is to continue building the community of observers and theorists interested in astrophysical probes of dark matter with LSST. Dark matter research lies at the intersection of cosmology, particle physics, and galaxy formation, and involves diverse observational phenomena ranging from microlensing, to Galactic stellar streams, to galaxy-scale strong lenses, to galaxy clusters. As such, the opportunities for dark matter research with LSST span several of the eight currently active LSST Science Collaborations.

As the second of two sessions to lay the groundwork for the Workshop on Impacts of Blending on LSST Science, this session will provide a high level overview of the blending challenges for different types of science at LSST depths. We anticipate that the session will describe the major blending challenges for different areas of LSST science including the following:

Current and planned deblenders for LSST employ non-parametric models and analytic constraints to determine the most plausible blend configurations, but galaxies have complex shapes. A closed-form description of galaxy morphologies is elusive, which means that implicit descriptions (e.g. from neural networks) or more sophisticated interpolations (e.g. Gaussian processes) might help. Alternatively, we might think of not doing deblending at all. Moreover, there is a need for optimized de-blending approaches for variable sources in galaxies.

The goal for this session is to encourage further discussion about the fields in the object catalog (as currently envisioned, or as part of a wish list) that might be used to:

Summarize findings on impacts of blending on LSST science and metrics for quantifying impact. Planning for future work -- within and across science collaborations. 

Please contact the session organiser (Sarah Brough; s.brough@unsw.edu.au) if you would like to contribute to this session.

Agenda:

• Introduction (10mins)

Breakfast 8:00-9:00
Turquoise III

Breakfast 8:00-9:00
Turquoise III

This will be a follow-up to the already proposed session that will be a forum on the upcoming call for White Papers on LSST Cadence and other observing strategy components. This session would allow for more in-depth presentations of different cadence algorithms, metrics and simulations, as well as different ideas of additional deep fields and their locations, and possible mini-surveys. This session would also include discussions about synergy between LSST and other surveys and what are the critical decisions about observing strategy that need to be made to optimize this synergy.

This session will review the action items accumulated from the Summer 2018 Commissioning Review. The action items will be summarized and responses will be formulated.

This sessions is intended for LSST Project personnel, particularly those directly involved in commissioning planning.  We use these sessions to take several high level system requirements and develop detailed verification plans and tests down to specifying required input data, procedures, and post processing necessary to satisfy the verification requirements. At each stage of the verification process, we will identify personnel roles and locations where the specific activities will be conducted. Candidate Observatory System Specifications that will be addressed are:

This session will review and discuss the requirements for such a tool, discuss the tool previously purchased, and have a discussion on the path forward, including whether the existing tool will meet needs, meet it with additional customization, or if a new tool should be pursued. This session will also touch upon the CMMS' interactions with the broader Work Management System (WMS).

Dinner on Your Own

Dinner on Your Own

This room is available for DM team members to work on collaborative coding projects.

This room is available for DM team members to work on collaborative coding projects.

This room is available for DM team members to work on collaborative coding projects.

This room is available for DM team members to work on collaborative coding projects.

This room is available for DM team members to work on collaborative coding projects.

Overview of the Alert Production V&V plan.

The mission of LSST EPO is to provide non-specialists access to, and context for, a subset of LSST data through accessible and engaging online experiences so anyone can explore the Universe and be part of the discovery process. This Open House builds from the EPO Plenary talk in the morning. Please bring questions or ideas you have and we'll be happy to respond and discuss, or feel free to reach out to EPO prior to the session so we can be prepared to discuss your ideas (contact info below).  

AGENDA

The era of large transient surveys (e.g. Catalina, Pan-STARRS, ZTF, and especially LSST) provides many exciting opportunities for new discoveries and understanding of the variable sky. However, the volume of alerts may overwhelm individual facilities and current observing procedures. This session will discuss how existing and future facilities could be organized in order to follow-up the most interesting objects from transient surveys in the most efficient manner.

5:30pm

Group Photo: first all who identify as women followed by Group Photo of all

In order to serve various collaborations and communication channels throughout LSST, project members have created a multitude of documents highlighting required behaviors collectively known and “Codes of Conduct”. Do you know the various LSST Codes of Conduct? Would you know where to even access them? Do you feel comfortable utilizing these documents as tools if you need to have conversations about someone’s behavior?

Starting at 6 PM in Catalina
by Invitation Only

Lunch 12:30-1:30
Turquoise III

Lunch 12:30-1:30
Turquoise III

PRESIDIO I
40 Capacity

PRESIDIO II
30 Capacity

PRESIDIO III/IV
100 Capacity

AGAVE I/II
30 Capacity

AGAVE III
12 Capacity

PALO VERDE
20 Capacity

ALL MEETING ROOM AVAILABLE
NO A/V or Logistical Support

Break 10:30-11:00
Turquoise Foyer

Break 10:30-11:00
Turquoise Foyer

No Break Provided

A workshop with the same title as this session took place in Aspen earlier this summer, with many participants who are part of LSST DM or the LSST science community.  The focus of the workshop was on challenges in learning about astrophysics and cosmology from large survey data, all the way from observational systematics to theoretical interpretation and inference.  This session will include summary talks and discussion on a selection of topics from the workshop that are particularly of relevance for LSST.

Agenda:
1. Brief intro/welcome (Rachel Mandelbaum; 2 minutes)

The LSST alert stream will enable real-time science, but it relies on a new ecosystem of community brokers. In this session we will review the status of the LSST alert distribution system from end to end. We will describe progress developing the technical systems needed to move 10 million alerts per night. We will outline a proposed process and timeline for selecting LSST's community brokers. And we will discuss ongoing work on the LSST simple alert filtering system (the "mini-broker"). 

KEYNOTES
9:00-9:25AM LIGO:  The Bumpy Road from Construction to Science - B. Barish (@bcbarish)
9:30-9:55AM Gaia: from science case to data release. Lessons learnt and their application to LSST - L. Guy (@leannepguy)

10:00-10:25 Workshop on impacts of blending on LSST science: Goals and Overview - S. Brough & J. Bosch

5 min question time between talks, remote participants to send questions through BlueJeans chat

CHAIR: Steve Kahn

9:00-9:25AM Telescope & Site 101 - D. Neill
9:30-9:55AM LSSTCam 101: How Many Corgis Would Fit in the Camera? (and other pressing questions) - M. Lopez
10:00-10:25AM Data Management 101 - C. Slater (@cts_xyz)

5 min question time between talks, remote participants to send questions through BlueJeans chat

CHAIR: William O'Mullane

First of two sessions. Managers, administrative assistants and other PMO support staff will take a “think tank” approach on topics such as workplace culture, new hire orientation, employee morale, expanding/enhancing Ben’s Bells, etc.

Discussion among scientists interested in solar system research about making necessary preparations for doing solar system science with LSST data, including identifying and developing communal analysis tools of interest to broad sections of the solar system community with the appropriate level of automation needed to cope with the LSST data stream, specifying key data products and means for accessing them that will be needed to facilitate the use of LSST data by as many interested solar system scientists as possible, and plans for a solar system alert system and possible framework for prior

RECEPTION
Torquoise Foyer

The reception this year will be two hours long from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. One hour with food and one additional hour with live music with a local band, The Lobros.

Reception menu:

Whether it is across a collaboration, at a conference, to the media, or to your friend, making your story and your work understandable to others is important in achieving your goals. Communicating complex ideas does not come naturally to everyone, but is a skill that can be developed with a few basic tips and a little practice.

AGENDA

SIGN UP NOW!

What is StoryTime Domain?

It's a place to tell YOUR story in an informal setting. We will have a video booth set up at LSST 2018 on Wednesday, Aug. 15 and Thursday, Aug. 16; we invite you to sign up for a 15-minute time-slot to speak with us.

What will happen there?

Student Intern Poster Session 

In the foyer of the conference center

Summer Interns - Machine Learning in Astronomy

This session will be a broad introduction to the topic of "Machine Learning" for the Summer Intern program.   You will be introduced to the Data Camp (datacamp.com) environment, which will allow you to leverage what you learn in this brief session. 

Please contact Gordon Richards (gtr at physics.drexel.edu) for more information about this session.

Useful reference for after this session include:

The Summit Base complex includes two computer rooms, networks, and associated lab and work areas with components provided by all LSST subsystems. Since early 2017, the Summit Base ITC Design Tiger Team has been working on cross-subsystem requirements and an integrated design to ensure that the complex ITC achieves sensible hardware and system software standardization, consistent and robust cybersecurity, and a common DevOps-based approach to configuration management.

Standard visits:The baseline assumption for the number of images per visit has for a long time been 2 (each of 15 seconds), motivated by the need to have 2 visits to detect and suppress cosmic rays. There have been rumors that this might be changed to 1 image per visit. If this option is under consideration, it would be valuable to have the case for a change presented and documented, with an opportunity for the community to review the tradeoffs.

Session to discuss the status of, and development plans for the LSST Scheduler, with emphasis on the new more flexible algorithms such as the so-called "feature-based scheduler".

Agenda:

An overview of the tools and techniques used by the T&S Software Test team. A description of the testing currently in progress and goals for future testing.

Please contact Rob Bovill (rbovill@lsst.org) if you plan to attend or would like to contribute.

UNCONFERENCE
Likely

This session will provide an overview of the software tooling developed and customized for the needs of the LSST verification program, which is available to subsystems and Project Systems Engineering alike. The session will review the integrated capabilities of MagicDraw, Syndeia, and JIRA Adaptivist Test Management. Together, they form an end-to-end verification suite.

The demo will be repeated in Verification Software Tooling 2 on Thursday at 3:30.