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

1 Welcome and student introductions in small working groups.

2 Dark Energy and Lensing: From GR to Data Analysis

Speaker: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab/UChicago)

10:15 Coffee Break

3 How to simulate our Universe

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

12:00 Lunch

4 Future Computing Architectures and Data Analysis

Speaker: Dr Salman Habib (Argonne National Laboratory)

5 Tour of Argonne Leadership Computing Facility

15:00 Coffee Break

6 Survey Strategy and Dark Energy Systematics

Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Rutgers University)

18:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday, 27 October

Plenary Session

7 Welcome

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

8 DESC Status and Overview of the Science Roadmap (SRM)

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

9 LSST project status

Speaker: Tony Tyson (University of California, Davis)

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

Speaker: Eric Gawiser (Rutgers University)

10:30 Coffee Break

Parallel Session: LSS working group session I

Parallel Session: Probabilistic PSF Marginalization Task Force (PSF)

Parallel Session: SSim 1 - Infrastucture

Parallel Session: Simulating Galaxies Task Force Session (SGTF)

Leadership Lunch

12:30 Lunch

Working Lunch: Publication Committee

Parallel Session: CL working group Session1

Parallel Session: LSS + CosmoSim + Data Challenges

Parallel Session: WL Work Updates

Parallel Session: Advisory Board Meeting

15:30 Coffee Break

Parallel Session: CL working group session 2

Parallel Session: Photometric Calibrations

Parallel Session: Photon Simulation Session

Parallel Session: Survey Strategy

Parallel Session: TJP 1: Updates and SRM overview

11 Special JuDO Session

Speaker: Ali Vanderveld (Groupon)

18:00 Collaboraion Meeting Banquet

Wednesday, 28 October

Plenary Session

12 Computing, Analysis, and Technical group SRM plans

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

13 Town-hall style Q&A about the SRM

Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University)

14 Lightning Talks from Junior Members

15 Announcement from the DESC Publications Committee

Speaker: Will Dawson (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

10:30 Coffee Break

Parallel Session: Realistic SEDs for photo-z Task Force

Parallel Session: SAWG I

Parallel Session: TJP 2: SRM DC1 Projects

12:30 Lunch

Management Lunch

Parallel Session: JuDO Lunch

Parallel Session: Non-Gaussian Statistics Task Force

Working Lunch: Publication Committee

Parallel Session: CoSim WG

Parallel Session: SAWG II

Parallel Session: Supernova WG

Parallel Session: WL DC1 projects

15:30 Coffee Break

Parallel Session: CI

Parallel Session: SS and CS Planning Session

Parallel Session: TJP + WL

Parallel Session: CFHTLS repro. task force

Parallel Session: CL-CS Sim needs

Parallel Session: Software Development for Individual and Joint Likelihoods

Parallel Session: Collaboration Council Meeting

Thursday, 29 October

Plenary Session

16 Updates from the Collaboration Council

Speaker: Phil Marshall (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

17 LSST Data Management (DM) status

Speaker: Jim Bosch (Princeton University)

18 Summaries of active DESC Task Forces

19 DESC junior members on the job market, and jobs at DESC institutions

Speaker: Pat Burchat (Stanford)

10:00 Coffee Break

Parallel Session: CL session 4

Parallel Session: Intrinsic Alignments

Parallel Session: Photo-z 2

Parallel Session: SSim 2 - Projects

12:00 Lunch

Operations Discussion:

Parallel Session: Blending CX1 key project (WL led)

Parallel Session: SL: DC1 Projects

Parallel Session: Stats Taskforce

14:30 Coffee Break

Plenary Session

20 DES science verification results, and lessons learned for the DESC

Speaker: Josh Frieman (Fermilab)

21 LSST Camera updates

Speaker: Chris Stubbs (Harvard)

22 Announcement: SAMSI

Speaker: Chad Schafer (Carnegie Mellon University)

23 Announcement: future DESC collaboration meetings

Speaker: Rachel Mandelbaum (Carnegie Mellon University)

24 Closing comments

Speaker: Rachel Bean (Cornell University)