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LSST Transients Working Group Workshop

US/Central
Conference Room 1404 (Argonne National Laboratory)

Conference Room 1404

Argonne National Laboratory

Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
Ashish Mahabal (Caltech), Federica B. Bianco (NYU)
Description
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Important Information
 
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The workshop will be held in Argonne's Theory and Computational Sciences (TCS) conference center in building 240.
 
Meeting Overview
 
This meeting is designed as a small collaborative workshop to shape the ongoing roadmap contributions into a coherent vision for the LSST TVS path to science, integrating the individual subgroup contributions into a comprehensive plan for the collaboration. At this time it is critical to discuss the impact of LSST strategic decisions on the diverse range of phenomena that our group studies, and consolidate common goals.

This meeting will be limited to about 20 participants (2 per subgroup) in order to facilitate hands-on work. The meeting should produce a written document outlining skeletal roadmaps for all subgroups to be in place. During the meeting members will be made aware of the available tools (like image simulations with introduced variability and Metric Analysis) that can be used to argue their science case, and that allow the subgroups greater flexibility in forecasting their science, and furthered the goals of LSST.

Preparatory activities will include all members of each subgroup, consolidating the teams, while the subgroup representatives will gather information on the status and direction of each subgroup, and come together at the RoadMap meeting to reconcile possible differences and consolidate common goals and activities.

MEETING MATERIAL https://indico.hep.anl.gov/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=968
Participants
  • Adam Miller
  • Andrej Prsa
  • Ashish Mahabal
  • Chad Schafer
  • Chris Pankow
  • David Ciardi
  • Eric Bellm
  • Eve Kovacs
  • federica bianco
  • Iair Arcavi
  • Katrin Heitmann
  • Keaton Bell
  • Laura Chomiuk
  • Lindsey Bleem
  • Lucianne Walkowicz
  • Lynne Jones
  • Marcel Demarteau
  • Michael Lund
  • Przemek Wozniak
  • Raffaella Margutti
  • Ravi Gupta
  • Ryan Chornock
  • Salman Habib
  • Shashi Kanbur
  • Stefano Valenti
  • Stephen Ridgway
  • Vicky Kalogera
  • Vinu Vikraman
  • Virginia trimble
  • Zoheyr Doctor
Support
  • Thursday, 24 March
    • 08:30
      breakfast Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
    • Announcements and Introduction (Ashish Mahabal & Federica Bianco)

      Ashish Mahabal, Federica Bianco

    • Subgroups Presentations: each subgroup leader will present the status & direction of their subgroup, 10 min each

      each subgroup leader will present the status & direction of their subgroup, 10 min each

    • 10:30
      Coffee Break Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
    • 12:30
      Lunch Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA

      (catered)

    • Synergy discussion: discussion of synergy and interaction between subgroups

      (free form)

    • MAF presentation and discussion: (speaker from UW)
    • 16:00
      coffee break Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
    • Outline brainstorming/writing session
    • 08:30
      breakfast Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
    • Current Cadence proposals and expectations summary: presentation
    • working session within subgroups
    • 10:30
      coffee break Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA
    • 12:00
      lunch Conference Room 1404

      Conference Room 1404

      Argonne National Laboratory

      Building 240 9700 South Cass Avenue Lemont, IL 60439 USA

      (catered)

    • working session within subgroups
    • Subgroup summary of accomplishments: subgroup representatives (7 min each)
    • working session within subgroups