Joint DES-LSST Workshop

24 Mar 2014, 08:00 → 27 Mar 2014, 22:00 US/Central

Fermilab

Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

The Dark Energy Survey officially began several months ago and the progress on the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope has been steady and impressive. The time is ripe for a discussion between people on both projects to share information about tools and lessons learned, and discuss future synergistic activities. Towards this goal, we are organizing a Joint DES-LSST Meeting at Fermilab on March 24-27, 2014. The first three days will be filled with invited and contributed talks focused on the topics of interest to both projects, and most of the final day will be available for smaller, more focused meetings.

Registration is now open. Please register using the online registration form by March 16, 2014. To contribute a talk, please complete the abstract submission form by February 15, 2014.

The link to the photograph of the meeting attendees is here: http://www-visualmedia.fnal.gov/VMS_Site/gallery/stillphotos/2014/0000/14-0052-04D.hr.jpg

For those who cannot attend in person, there will be a live videostream of the plenary sessions on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.  The link to the live videostream is here:  http://www-visualmedia.fnal.gov/live.htm

Slides DES_LSST_kuropatkin.pdf

Monday, 24 March

09:00 → 10:30 Survey Characteristics and Techniques

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Nigel Lockyer

09:02 Similarities and differences between DES and LSST

Speakers: James Annis (Fermilab), Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

Slides annis-lsst-des.pdf DES-LSST_Ivezic.pdf

09:30 Survey strategy optimization, scheduling, cadence issues

Speakers: Abhijit Saha (NOAO), Eric Neilsen (Fermilab)

Slides des_strategy.pdf SimScheduler-DES_LSST.pptx

10:00 Site monitoring, local weather prediction

Speakers: Alistair Walker (NOAO / CTIO), Darren DePoy (Texas A&M University)

Slides DePoy_DES-LSST.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Survey Characteristics and Techniques

11:10 Commissioning lessons

Speaker: Alistair Walker (NOAO / CTIO)

Slides LSST-DES-Walker.pptx

11:40 Monitoring Data Quality

Speaker: Stephen Kent (Fermilab)

Slides quality.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Survey Characteristics and Techniques

13:30 CCD instrumental signatures (including astrometry)

Speakers: Andrei Nomerotski (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Gary Bernstein (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides Bernstein.pdf NomerotskiDESLSSTWorkshop20140324_v2.pdf

14:10 Photometric Calibration (including filter definitions)

Speakers: Douglas Tucker (Fermilab), Peter Yoachim (University of Washington)

Slides

• DESCalib-tucker-20140324.pdf
• DESCalib-tucker-20140324.ppt
• LSSTCalib_yoachim.pptx

14:40 VISTA near IR survey data: combining with DES

Speaker: Richard McMahon (University of Cambridge)

Slides VISTA_DES_Fermilab_20140324_rgm.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:40 Survey Characteristics and Techniques

16:00 Image Simulation in the Era of Survey Science

Speaker: Chihway Chang (ETH Zurich)

Slides DES_LSST_03242014.pdf

16:20 The Blanco DECam Bulge Survey

Speaker: Will Clarkson (University of Michigan, Dearborn)

Slides Clarkson_BDBS_final.pdf

16:40 Intrinsic alignments roadmap

Speaker: Benjamin Joachimi (University College London)

Slides joachimi_fermilab14.pdf

17:00 DECam weak lensing study of El Gordo

Speaker: James Jee (University of California, Davis)

Slides DECAM_EL_GORDO_JEE.pdf

17:20 MKID instrument for DES and LSST followup

Speaker: Juan Estrada (Fermilab)

Slides LSSTDESwk_jestrada.pdf

18:00 → 20:00 Reception

Tuesday, 25 March

09:00 → 10:45 Data Management

slides LSST-DES-meeting_Intro_to_DES.pptx

09:00 Introduction to DES Data Management

Speaker: Donald Petravick (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Slides LSST-DES-meeting_Intro_to_DES.pptx

09:30 Overview of LSST Data Management

Speaker: Mario Juric

Slides LSST-DES-8.pptx

10:00 DES data procesing, lessons learned, and challenges

Speaker: Robert Gruendl

Slides DES_LSST_gruendl.pptx

10:45 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:00 Data Management

slides LSST-DES-meeting_Intro_to_DES.pptx

11:10 LSST pipeline architecture

Speaker: Kian-Tat Lim

Slides DM-Stack-Tour-2.pdf

11:40 Integration of LSST framework elements on DES DM

Speaker: Felipe Menanteau

Slides Menanteau-DES-LSST.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Data Management

slides LSST-DES-meeting_Intro_to_DES.pptx

13:30 PSF Estimations

Speaker: Jim Bosch

Slides LSST_PSF_Modeling_2.pptx

14:00 Difference Imaging in DES

Speaker: Rick Kessler

Slides Kessler-DES-LSST_diffim.pptx

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

Speaker: Paul Price

Slides HSC_at_LSST_and_DES.pdf

14:50 Applying the LSST stack to DES data

Speakers: James McElveen, Nikolai Kuropatkin

Slides DES_LSST_kuropatkin.pdf des_lsst_mcelveen.pdf

15:10 DES Science Portal

Speaker: Luiz da Costa (LIneA and Observatório Nacional)

Slides dacosta-des-lsst.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Data Management

slides LSST-DES-meeting_Intro_to_DES.pptx

16:00 Simulation Tools

Speakers: Andrew Connolly (University of Washington), Huan Lin (Fermilab), Risa Wechsler (Stanford University)

Slides DES-LSST-simtalk.pdf LSST_SimsFermilab.pptx

16:30 EPO

Speakers: Marge Bardeen (Fermilab), Suzanne Jacoby (LSST)

Slides DES-LSST-EPO_FINAL.pptx DES-LSST_mgb.pdf

17:30 → 20:00 Data Visualization

Wednesday, 26 March

09:00 → 10:30 Simulations and Analysis

09:00 Photo-z calibration DE Systematics

Speaker: Carlos Cunha (Stanford University)

Slides talk.pdf

09:30 Weak lensing systematics

Speakers: James Bosch (Princeton University), Sarah Bridle (University of Manchester)

Slides http://www.sarahbridle.net/talks/fermilab_wl_systematics_20140326_0840.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Simulations and Analysis

11:00 Large Scale Structure systematics

Speaker: Michael Schneider (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

Slides schneider_des-lsst_workshop.pdf

11:20 Clusters systematics

Speaker: Eduardo Rozo (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

Slides Rozo_Fermilab.pptx

11:40 Supernovae systematics

Speaker: Alex Kim (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Slides 2014_DES-LSST.pdf

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch Break

13:30 → 15:30 Simulations and Analysis

13:30 Analysis Tools

Speakers: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Tim Eifler (University of Pennsylvania)

Slides DES-LSST-slides-Tim.pdf dodelson_analysis.pdf

14:00 Cosmology Simulations

Speaker: Katrin Heitmann (Argonne National Laboratory)

Slides DES-LSST_March2014_heitmann.pdf

14:30 Wide-field spectroscopic follow-up

Speaker: Jeffrey Newman (University of Pittsburgh / PITT-PACC)

Slides lsst_des_photoz.pdf

15:10 Euclid Update

Speaker: Jason Rhodes

Slides Euclid_update_DESC_DES_v2.pptx

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:00 Simulations and Analysis

16:00 Supernova Spectroscopy

Speaker: Thomas Matheson (National Optical Astronomy Observatory)

Slides matheson-des-lsst.pdf

16:30 Synergies with other data sets

Speaker: Bradford Benson (Fermilab)

Slides Benson_CMB_Synergies_DES_LSST_26March2014.pdf

Thursday, 27 March

09:00 → 09:30 Introduction to parallel sessions

slides 14-0052-01D.jpg

09:30 → 10:30 Calibration

Conveners: Chuck Claver (LSST), Darren Depoy (Texas A&M University)

09:30 → 10:30 Data management and Analysis Tools

Conveners: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

slides use_cases-7.pdf

09:30 DESDM: Emerging system, Provenance and QA

Speaker: Robert Gruendl

10:00 Frameworks

Speaker: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab)

Slides use_cases-7.pdf

09:30 → 10:30 EPO

Outreach efforts

Conveners: Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab), Suzanne Jacoby (LSST)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 → 12:00 Calibration

Conveners: Chuck Claver (LSST), Darren Depoy (Texas A&M University)

11:00 → 12:00 Data management and Analysis Tools

Conveners: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Prof. Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

slides use_cases-7.pdf

11:00 Data Management Discussion

Speaker: Mario Juric

11:00 → 12:00 EPO

Outreach efforts

Conveners: Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab), Suzanne Jacoby (LSST)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Calibration

Conveners: Chuck Claver (LSST), Darren Depoy (Texas A&M University)

13:30 → 14:30 Data management and Analysis Tools

Conveners: Scott Dodelson (Fermilab), Željko Ivezić (University of Washington)

slides use_cases-7.pdf

13:30 Open Questions/Continued Discussion

14:00 Brazilian Portal Demo

Speaker: Luiz da Costa

13:30 → 14:30 EPO

Outreach efforts

Conveners: Marjorie Bardeen (Fermilab), Suzanne Jacoby (LSST)

14:30 → 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 → 15:45 Reports from parallel sessions

15:45 → 16:00 Closing Remarks