LSST DESC Collaboration Meeting

26 Oct 2015, 08:45 → 30 Oct 2015, 18:00 US/Central

Building 401

The meeting is located in building 401.

The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration will host its sixth semi-annual meeting, continuing a series that plays a vital role in the work of the collaboration. These three-day meetings are very active: the focus is on sessions that bring together different working groups to make progress on the most important challenges we face, with additional plenary sessions to ensure all members are up to date with the science program. To enhance this program, in our most recent meeting we held a special "Dark Energy School'' on the Monday before the meeting, as well as a "Hack Day'' on the Friday afterwards. These pilot projects were very successful in engaging junior members of the collaboration both in learning about LSST science and in acquiring the skills to design, implement and perform LSST analyses. We will host the next five-day meeting at Argonne National Laboratory October 26-30, 2015. This next collaboration meeting will come at a crucial time, as we will have recently completed our science and operations planning exercise and will be looking to get our next phase of work off to the best possible start.

Thanks to the support received from LSSTC and Argonne National Laboratory, this collaboration meeting is offered with no registration fee.

Registrant Email Registrants.pdf

Site Map Argonne_Site_Map.pdf

Monday, 26 October

08:45 → 09:00 Welcome and student introductions in small working groups.

09:00 → 10:15 Dark Energy and Lensing: From GR to Data Analysis

Speaker: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/UChicago)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:00 How to simulate our Universe

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 14:15 Future Computing Architectures and Data Analysis

Speaker: Dr Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:15 → 15:00 Tour of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:00 Survey Strategy and Dark Energy Systematics

Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Rutgers University)

18:30 → 21:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 27 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

09:10 DESC Status and Overview of the Science Roadmap (SRM)

Speakers: Jeff Newman (University of Pittsburgh), Rachel Bean (Cornell University)

09:40 LSST project status

Speaker: Tony Tyson (University of California, Davis)

10:05 LSST survey strategy and the connection to the DESC SRM plans

Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Rutgers University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: LSS working group session I

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: Probabilistic PSF Marginalization Task Force (PSF)

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: SSim 1 - Infrastucture

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: Simulating Galaxies Task Force Session (SGTF)

12:30 → 14:00 Leadership Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Working Lunch: Publication Committee

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: CL working group Session1

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: LSS + CosmoSim + Data Challenges

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: WL Work Updates

15:00 → 16:00 Parallel Session: Advisory Board Meeting

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: CL working group session 2

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: Photometric Calibrations

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: Photon Simulation Session

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: Survey Strategy

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: TJP 1: Updates and SRM overview

17:00 → 18:00 Special JuDO Session

Speaker: Ali Vanderveld (Groupon)

18:00 → 21:00 Collaboraion Meeting Banquet

Wednesday, 28 October

09:00 → 10:30 Plenary Session

09:00 Computing, Analysis, and Technical group SRM plans

Speakers: Aaron Roodman (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory), Andy Connolly (University of Washington), Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

09:40 Town-hall style Q&A about the SRM

Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University)

10:00 Lightning Talks from Junior Members

10:25 Announcement from the DESC Publications Committee

Speaker: Will Dawson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: Realistic SEDs for photo-z Task Force

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: SAWG I

11:00 → 12:30 Parallel Session: TJP 2: SRM DC1 Projects

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Management Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Parallel Session: JuDO Lunch

12:30 → 14:00 Parallel Session: Non-Gaussian Statistics Task Force

12:30 → 14:00 Working Lunch: Publication Committee

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: CoSim WG

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: SAWG II

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: Supernova WG

14:00 → 15:30 Parallel Session: WL DC1 projects

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: CI

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: SS and CS Planning Session

16:00 → 17:00 Parallel Session: TJP + WL

17:00 → 18:00 Parallel Session: CFHTLS repro. task force

17:00 → 18:00 Parallel Session: CL-CS Sim needs

17:00 → 18:00 Parallel Session: Software Development for Individual and Joint Likelihoods

18:00 → 19:00 Parallel Session: Collaboration Council Meeting

Thursday, 29 October

08:30 → 10:00 Plenary Session

08:30 Updates from the Collaboration Council

Speaker: Phil Marshall (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

08:50 LSST Data Management (DM) status

Speaker: Jim Bosch (Princeton University)

09:15 Summaries of active DESC Task Forces

09:35 DESC junior members on the job market, and jobs at DESC institutions

Speaker: Pat Burchat (Stanford)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 → 12:00 Parallel Session: CL session 4

10:30 → 12:00 Parallel Session: Intrinsic Alignments

10:30 → 12:00 Parallel Session: Photo-z 2

10:30 → 12:00 Parallel Session: SSim 2 - Projects

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

12:00 → 13:00 Operations Discussion:

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Session: Blending CX1 key project (WL led)

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Session: SL: DC1 Projects

13:00 → 14:30 Parallel Session: Stats Taskforce

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 16:30 Plenary Session

15:00 DES science verification results, and lessons learned for the DESC

Speaker: Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

15:30 LSST Camera updates

Speaker: Chris Stubbs (Harvard)

15:55 Announcement: SAMSI

Speaker: Chad Schafer (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:00 Announcement: future DESC collaboration meetings

Speaker: Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

16:05 Closing comments

Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University)