Science Advisory Committee Meeting

Lunch will be served just for the SAC and Undergraduates. Please return to respective meeting rooms with your plates.

You will have the opportunity to edit this abstract if your suggested session is scheduled.

This session will not take place: DM Developers are encouraged to attend the Data Management All Hands meeting in Coronado I.

DM Hack Sessions will commence tomorrow at 13:30 in Presidio III/IV with DM Hack Session 2.

We'll present current status of the ComCam efforts to date and update future activities according to the latest schedule.

Planning will focus on setting milestones for software and electro-optical testing both in Tucson and Chile.

In Tucson:

* hardware integration, infrastructure

* functional, performance verification testing

* ts_xml definition

* CSC implementation

* Commissioning rehearsal activities

In Chile:

*  Prerequisites prior to shipping (infrastructure, utilities, computing)

*  Shipping, arrival

All DM staff are invited to attend an “all hands” session chaired by the DM Project Manager, Wil O'Mullane. As well as general DM news and updates, this will provide a kick-off for the PipelineTask Porting Session that DM will run throughout the workshop.

You will have the opportunity to edit this abstract if your suggested session is scheduled.

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The summit and base networks in Chile are still in construction but also in a pre-operations phase as we're already supporting connections for the coating chamber, M2, M1M3, PFlow and AuxTel. This session will provide an overall status of the networks at both sites and future challenges for the upcoming year, with special focus in connections for the Pier, Dome and the TMA.

Please contact Luis Corral lcorral@lsst.org if you want to contribute.

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This session will consist of discussion among scientists interested in solar system research about making necessary preparations for doing solar system science with LSST data.

LSST provides IT services in Chile with a mix of IT north and IT south staff, including internet and intranet access, telephony, WiFi, network file systems, etc... for project staff (NCSA, SLAC, LSST or other collaborating institutions) it's important to understand these and be aware of the current policies and timing for some services to be provided, especially when your visit has some special requirements involving IT. 

In this breakout session, we will share recent and current diversity and inclusion initiatives happening at the LSST Project, affiliate institutions, and science collaborations. Highlighted efforts will include but are not limited to an LSST diversity and inclusion topical interest group, the NSF-funded Multimessenger Diversity Network, an update on the LSST Code of Conduct, and best practices for hosting inclusive meetings.

This session will consist of updates from Project personnel about current development of the Moving Object Processing System (MOPS) for LSST, and discussion between Project personnel and interested scientists about upcoming development of MOPS and other survey-related activities.

The DM Hack Sessions constitute a self-organized working space where DM developers and interested others are encouraged to work together on cross-team projects. Come ready with a project you want to work on, or just come to check out what others are up to.

This session will focus on some less well known & studied instrument signatures, with discussion between Camera and DM on the details of these effects. Useful outcomes include: update to plans for laboratory images, assessment of needed algorithms and calibration data to correct, wider dissemination of the existence of these effects.

Agenda:

From strong lensing systems, to light echoes of historical supernovae, to streaking NEOs, what are special challenges with resolved variables and transients? This session discuss technical challenge in subtractions and characterization for variable and transient objects that are resolved in a single image.  There will also be discussion of the benefits and complications of combining multiple images at the pixel level, with or without shifting, may yield additional sensitivity to new science.

The project team has been busy flexing the scheduler to create new simulations based on guidelines from the SAC (and based on the Survey Strategy Whitepapers submitted last November). We will present some of the early results of this process, with several new simulations including rolling cadence simulations. We will talk about the plan for further survey strategy work up to the early 2020 deadline to pass these survey strategy evaluations over to the SCOC (the “Survey Cadence Optimization Committee”, a community-based committee set up by the LSST Operations Director).

As we begin to analyze data from live LSST instrumentation, a reliable and well-understood set of tools for performing “QA” on all aspects of the DM system is essential. In this session, we will review progress on various aspects of that toolset. The agenda includes:

A high-level overview of the on-going efforts at Telescope and Site Software.   This will answer the questions - "Where are we at?" and "Where are we going?"

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The Active Optics System will correct system aberrations introduced by gravity and temperature gradients in near real-time. This session will focus on the wavefront estimation component, where the wavefront is estimated from donut images on the corner wavefront sensors. We will discuss recent progress developing the curvature wavefront sensing technique and hear about alternative approaches based on optimization and machine learning.

It's never too soon to learn how to write good requirements! Let's meet and discuss the importance of writing good requirements, guidelines for writing good requirements, and then break into groups and take a stab at it ourselves. 

This will be an interactive session. 1/2 Presentation & 1/2 Workshop 

Part 1: Presentation 
- Why is it important to write a good requirement?
- Simple guidelines for writing good requirements 
- Examples of good and bad requirements, and discussion on what makes a requirement "good" vs "bad". 

This session will provide a hands-on opportunity for scientists to learn more about the work of the LSST DM Stack Club. The Stack Club, an on-going bi-weekly zoom meeting, has been taking place for about a year now. The goal of Stack Club is to facilitate learning the LSST processing software (the "LSST Software Stack") by working through community-built tutorial Jupyter notebooks, and then by extending those to do the things of use to the participant. All tutorial notebooks are built using the LSST Science Platform.

Poster submissions from any and all workshop participants are welcome for this session, which will take place on Wednesday from 5-6pm in the Turquoise Foyer. Posters can represent LSST-related work, research, travel, or any other associated projects. Poster titles should please be submitted to Melissa Graham via email at your earliest convenience (mlg3k at uw dot edu). There will be a cash bar open in the foyer during the poster session. 

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9:00 - 9:05 - Daily updates
9:05 - 9:25 - Lightning Stories from across the project - Various project members

Our presentation will address three main topics. These three topics are linked to Safety's work in the Base Facility and Summit Site sites.
• Who we are: A brief account of who the members of the safety team are, their environment and the motivations they have in their careers.
• LPM18 Safety Policy and LPM 114 LSST Safety Plan, An explanation of how we have integrated these documents into the daily activities of the LSST sites, these two documents are considered the basis of our safety management.

In the first year of operations, LSST will not have full deep templates across the sky, and image subtraction without an Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector (differential chromatic refraction) means that we have to think carefully about constructing templates from images at different airmasses. The Project has already done leading investigations into understanding and modeling differential chromatic refraction.

The DM Hack Sessions constitute a self-organized working space where DM developers and interested others are encouraged to work together on cross-team projects. Come ready with a project you want to work on, or just come to check out what others are up to.

A meeting of the SMWLV Science Collaboration to discuss our science plans and future road map. Please contact session organizer John Gizis [gizis AT udel DOT edu] with questions, suggestions, or to contribute content to this session.

How do DIA Sources become DIA Objects? What DIA information will be available on 60-second, 24-hour, and yearly timescales, and how is the community planning on using it? What are the driving science use cases of the Prompt Data Products? There will be a particular focus on lightcurves. Lightcurves are at the heart of time-domain analysis, but there is no currently defined nominal data model for a lightcurve. Are there common lightcurve data objects that serve wide audiences, or are there different needs for transients and variables?

The purpose of this session is for members of the Galaxies Science Collaboration to collectively discuss progress, share ideas, develop a strategy for the future scientific direction of the SC. With commissioning data becoming available around a year from now, this meeting will be crucial for successfully fulfilling the scientific goals that the SC has laid out in its roadmap.

LSST & BLACK HOLES

Thursday, August 15, 2019 @ 7:00 pm

Hilton El Conquistador Turquoise Ballroom
10000 North Oracle Road, Tucson, Arizona, 85704

The DM Hack Sessions constitute a self-organized working space where DM developers and interested others are encouraged to work together on cross-team projects. Come ready with a project you want to work on, or just come to check out what others are up to.

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11:00-12:15PM Breakout Reports - various speakers
12:20-12:30PM Closeout message - V. Krabbendam

Session reporters please upload 1 slide summary here: http://ls.st/shu