Science with LSST and Other Large Surveys:
Community Access and Utilization of Future Archives
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University of Washington, Seattle
September 20-22, 2004

Final Program 9/17/04

Day 1: Monday, Sept 20, 2004: FSH 102 (Posters in hallway adjacent)

Session I: Overview and LSST (8:30 - 10:00)
Chair: Suzanne Hawley
  1. Welcome - Craig Hogan (5 min)
  2. Introduction and Charge - Kem Cook (5 min)
  3. LSST SWG Report - Michael Strauss (20 min)
  4. LSST Science and Design - Tony Tyson (20 min)
  5. LSST Corporation and Project Status - Don Sweeney (20 min)
  6. LSST Data Management - Tim Axelrod (20 min)

Coffee Break/Posters (10:00 - 10:30)

Session II: Previous/Current Surveys - Lessons Learned (10:30 - 12:30)
Chair: Kem Cook
  1. 2MASS - Roc Cutri (20 min)
  2. SDSS - Robert Lupton (20 min)
  3. RAPTOR/OGLE/ROTSE - Przemyslaw Wozniak (20 min)
  4. CFHT - Christian Veillet (20 min)
  5. QUEST - Charles Baltay (20 min)
  6. GRB Afterglows - Shri Kulkarni (20 min)

Lunch (12:30 - 1:30)

Session III: Science from Wide Field Surveys (1:30 - 3:00)
(10 min talks)
Chair: Todd Boroson
Multi-band searches
Phil Marshall
Dan Stern
Steve Warren
Large statistical studies
Andrew Connolly
Ulrich Hopp
Lutz Haberzettl
Todd Small
Bhuvnesh Jain

Coffee Break/Posters (3:00 - 3:30)

Session III, continued (3:30 - 5:00)
Chair: Zeljko Ivezic
Moving objects, astrometry
Dave Monet
Al Harris
Sebastien Lepine
Imants Platais
Variable objects
Andy Becker
Steve Howell
Peter Garnavich
Paula Szkody
Tom Vestrand

Wine/beer/munchies/posters (5:00 - 6:00)

Dinner (everyone is on their own)


Day 2: Tuesday, Sept 21, 2004: FSH 102 (Posters in hallway adjacent)

Session IV: Data Access and Virtual Observatory Models (8:30 - 10:15)
Chair: Michael Strauss
  1. IVOA - Peter Quinn (20 min)
  2. IPAC - Bruce Berriman (20 min)
  3. CADC - Luc Simard (20 min)
  4. HST - Rick White (15 min)
  5. NVO - Ray Plante (15 min)
  6. SDSS - Ani Thakar (15 min)

Coffee Break/Posters (10:15 - 10:45)

Session V: Proposed Wide-field Surveys (10:45 - 12:30)
Chair: Chris Stubbs
  1. SNAP - Bill Carithers (15 min)
  2. UKIDSS - Steve Warren (15 min)
  3. Pan-STARRS - Ken Chambers (15 min)
  4. QUEST - George Djorgovski (15 min)
  5. TAOS - Matt Lehner (15 min)
  6. DES - Mike Gladders (15 min)
  7. VST/VISTA/EST - Luiz da Costa (15 min)

Lunch (12:30 - 1:30)

Session V, continued (1:30 - 2:00)
Chair: Tony Tyson
  1. Destiny - Tod Lauer (15 min)
  2. DCT - Ted Bowell (15 min)
Session VI: Facilities for Followup (2:00 - 3:00)
Chair: Tony Tyson
  1. Large Telescopes / Instruments - Jeremy Mould (20 min)
  2. Small Telescope Networks - Charles Bailyn (15 min)
  3. The Telescope System - Keivan Stassun (15 min)
  4. Microlensing Followup - Dave Bennett (10 min)
Coffee Break/Posters (3:00 - 3:30)

Session VII: Breakout Groups (3:30 - 5:30): FSH 102, FSH 108, FSH 109

Input given to groups: current LSST plans for filters, exposure times, data quality, data cadence

Charge to groups: What is needed to facilitate efficient and productive data mining? What quantities should be stored in the database? How to access the database? Different needs for different science projects?

 
Group 1 - Solar System (Chair, Zeljko Ivezic)
Group 2 - Galactic (Chair, Kem Cook)
Group 3 - Extragalactic (Chair, Todd Boroson)

Banquet (Ivar's) (7:00 - 9:00)


Day 3: Wednesday Sept 22, 2004: FSH 102

Session VIII: Breakout Group Presentations (8:30 - 9:30)
Chair: Craig Hogan
  1. Solar System - Zeljko Ivezic (20 min)
  2. Galactic - Kem Cook (20 min)
  3. Extragalactic - Todd Boroson (20 min)

Poster Summary (9:30 - 10:00)
Suzanne Hawley

Coffee Break (10:00 - 10:30)

Session IX: Discussion (10:30 - 11:30)
(moderated by breakout chairs)

Summary (11:30 - 12:00)
Chris Stubbs

Meeting Ends, Wed noon


List of Posters

Image Subtraction and Hough-Transform Backmasking for Transient Variability Searches
David R. Alves

YSTAR-KAO Detection of Optical Transients
Byun, Yong-Ik

VIRUS: A massively-replicated IFU spectrograph for the HET
Niv Drory

The Faint Sky Variablity Survey -- get your copy today
Mark Huber

SDSS Data Quality Assessment & Implications for LSST
J. Allyn Smith

The Scale Expanding Cosmos Theory
Johan Masreliez

Data Mining in Distributed Databases for Interacting Galaxies
Kirk Borne

Reduction pipeline for wide field imaging data
Lutz Haberzettl

Mapping the structure of the Galaxy using SDSS stellar sample
Mario Juric

Reaching Many Schools and Science Centers with LSST Data
Carl Pennypacker

Tracking stellar magnetic processes in the time domain
Peregrine M. McGehee

A strategy for finding Near Earth Objects with SDSS
Sean Raymond

The environments of LSB Galaxies from SDSS
Dominik Rosenbaum

Parallel Visualization/Analysis of Large Data Sets
Thomas Quinn

A LSST precursor experiment: Data Management for the CFHT Legacy Survey
Luc Simard

Observing Extrasolar Planetary Transits with LSST
John Bochanski & Mark Claire

Deep Lens Survey
Shear-selected clusters from the Deep Lens Survey
Vera Ellinger Margoniner

A Search for Eclipsing Jovian Companions to M Dwarfs Using the 2MASS Calibration Database
Peter Plavchan