Name: Joint DES-LSST Workshop
Start: 2014-03-24T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2014-03-27T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Fermilab

Joint DES-LSST Workshop

from Monday, 24 March 2014 (08:00) to Thursday, 27 March 2014 (22:00)

Monday, 24 March 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Nigel Lockyer

09:02 Similarities and differences between DES and LSST - James Annis (Fermilab) Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

09:30 Survey strategy optimization, scheduling, cadence issues - Abhijit Saha (NOAO) Eric Neilsen (Fermilab)

10:00 Site monitoring, local weather prediction - Alistair Walker (NOAO / CTIO) Darren DePoy (Texas A&M University)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:10 Commissioning lessons - Alistair Walker (NOAO / CTIO)

11:40 Monitoring Data Quality - Stephen Kent (Fermilab)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 CCD instrumental signatures (including astrometry) - Andrei Nomerotski (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Gary Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)

14:10 Photometric Calibration (including filter definitions) - Douglas Tucker (Fermilab) Peter Yoachim (University of Washington)

14:40 VISTA near IR survey data: combining with DES - Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:40
Contributions

16:00 Image Simulation in the Era of Survey Science - Chihway Chang (ETH Zurich)

16:20 The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey - Will Clarkson (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

16:40 Intrinsic alignments roadmap - Benjamin Joachimi (University College London)

17:00 DECam weak lensing study of El Gordo - James Jee (University of California, Davis)

17:20 MKID instrument for DES and LSST followup - Juan Estrada (Fermilab)
18:00 Reception
Reception
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Introduction to DES Data Management - Donald Petravick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

09:30 Overview of LSST Data Management - Mario Juric

10:00 DES data procesing, lessons learned, and challenges - Robert Gruendl
10:45 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:00
Contributions

11:10 LSST pipeline architecture - Kian-Tat Lim

11:40 Integration of LSST framework elements on DES DM - Felipe Menanteau
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 PSF Estimations - Jim Bosch

14:00 Difference Imaging in DES - Rick Kessler

14:30 Experience using LSST stack: Hyper Suprime-Cam - Paul Price

14:50 Applying the LSST stack to DES data - James McElveen Nikolai Kuropatkin

15:10 DES Science Portal - Luiz da Costa (LIneA and Observatório Nacional)
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Simulation Tools - Andrew Connolly (University of Washington) Huan Lin (Fermilab) Risa Wechsler (Stanford University)

16:30 EPO - Marge Bardeen (Fermilab) Suzanne Jacoby (LSST)
17:30

17:30 - 20:00
Wednesday, 26 March 2014
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Photo-z calibration DE Systematics - Carlos Cunha (Stanford University)

09:30 Weak lensing systematics - James Bosch (Princeton University) Sarah Bridle (University of Manchester)
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Large Scale Structure systematics - Michael Schneider (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

11:20 Clusters systematics - Eduardo Rozo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

11:40 Supernovae systematics - Alex Kim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:30
Contributions

13:30 Analysis Tools - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab) Tim Eifler (University of Pennsylvania)

14:00 Cosmology Simulations - Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

14:30 Wide-field spectroscopic follow-up - Jeffrey Newman (University of Pittsburgh / PITT-PACC)

15:10 Euclid Update - Jason Rhodes
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Contributions

16:00 Supernova Spectroscopy - Thomas Matheson (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)

16:30 Synergies with other data sets - Bradford Benson (Fermilab)
Thursday, 27 March 2014

09:00

09:00 - 09:30

09:30

09:30 - 10:30
09:30 - 10:30
Contributions

09:30 DESDM: Emerging system, Provenance and QA - Robert Gruendl

10:00 Frameworks - Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)
09:30 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 12:00
11:00 - 12:00
Contributions

11:00 Data Management Discussion - Mario Juric
11:00 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:30

13:30

13:30 - 14:30
13:30 - 14:30
Contributions

13:30 Open Questions/Continued Discussion

14:00 Brazilian Portal Demo - Luiz da Costa
13:30 - 14:30

14:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:00

15:00

15:00 - 15:45

15:45

15:45 - 16:00
Room: Wilson Hall - One West