The Fifth SCOC-Science Collaborations Workshop (virtual)
DATE AND TIME: May 6 & 7 2025, 8-11AM Pacific time
MODALITY: Remote meeting - zoom
IMPORTANT: Please join the slack channel #scoc-workshop5 on the Discovery Alliance slack for communication related to this workshop, in real-time or asynchronously
VIDEO RECORDINGS of the workshop are available made available in the Agenda page along with slides https://project.lsst.org/meetings/scoc-sc-workshop5/agenda
Goals:
On September 30th 2024 the Survey Cadence Optimization Committee (SCOC) released its final pre-operation comprehensive recommendation in PSTN-056 (Survey Cadence Optimization Committee’s Phase 3 Recommendations). Between October and December 2024 Rubin Observatory succesfully completed ComCam on-sky commissioning (see "An Interim Report on the ComCam On-Sky Campaign, SITCOMTN-149). In the light of these milestones, this V SCOC-SC Collaborations workshop will host discussions on updates to the survey strategy simulations, strategies for template collection in Operations Year1, reports from the Deep Drilling Task Force and SC teams enagaged in answering questions left open in PSTN-056.
The detailed schedule is still under developemt. The community will be invited to submit discussion topics through April 20 upon registering. In addition, SC members are invited to contact their SC liaisons (see SCOC webpage) to recommend topics and help design the workshop content.
Registration will be open from April 4th through May 4th, 2025.