Rubin Digest: for biweekly updates, see the News category in the Community Forum for links to the Digest.
LSST Corporation: see the LSSTC's News & Activities, including funding and fellowship announcements.
For a curated list of recent news, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Sun Mar 31 2024: Applications for the 2024 La Serena School of Data Science
Fri Apr 5 2024: early-bird deadline to suggest a breakout session topic or submit an abstract for a talk or poster for the Rubin Community Workshop 2024
For open employment positions and their application deadlines, see lsst.org/hiring.
This is a list of upcoming events of interest to the Rubin community. Links to the event webpage are provided where available. See also the News category in the Community Forum to stay informed of events.
March 18-20 - Rubin ToO 2024, Envisioning the LSST Target of Opportunity Program, Berkeley, CA
2024 March 26 - 29 - NSF Research Infrastructure Workshop, Tucson, AZ
2024 April 16-18 - Rubin Joint Operations Review, Tucson, AZ
2024 April 15-19 - KAVLI-IAU (IAUS 387) Symposium, “(Toward) Discovery of Life Beyond Earth and its Impact,” Durham, UK
2024 June 16-21 - SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation Meeting, Yokohama, Japan
July 8-12 - DESC Collaboration Meeting, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
July 22-26 - Rubin Community Workshop (formerly PCW), SLAC Menlo Park, CA
The Rubin Observatory Project Science team (PST) hosts monthly talks with the LSST Science Collaborations on a wide variety of topics. These deep dives into a particular subject often provide the most up-to-date details.
Click the thumbnail image below to go to the YouTube channel where recordings are posted, or find the full original talks here and slides here.
2023 -- Data Preview 0. In June 2023, the simulated DP0.3 data set was released, which includes Solar System catalogs.
2023 -- Survey Strategy. The Survey Cadence Optimization Committee (SCOC) has released their Phase 2 Recommendations. See PSTN-055.
2023 -- Early Science. The plans for releasing Data Previews based on commissioning data; for doing Prompt processing in Year 1; and for the first Data Release are announced in RTN-011.
2022 -- Data Preview 0. In June 2022, the simulated DP0.2 data set was released, which includes the results of difference-image analysis to enable time-domain science.
2022 -- Users Committee. The first 12 members of the Rubin Users Committee have been identified and are available to be contacted by all users.
2021 -- LSST Science Collaborations. The first version of the Rubin Observatory Science Collaboration Federation Charter was released.
2021 -- Alert Brokers. Seven brokers will receive direct access to the full stream, and two will operate downstream of the selected brokers.
2021 -- Data Policy. Rubin Observatory Operations announces the release of an updated version of the Rubin Observatory Data Policy, RDO-013.
2020 -- LEO Satellites. The project has further investigated the effect of satellite constellations on Rubin Observatory observing, findings are summarized in Document-33805.
2019 -- LSST Overview Paper. The updated overview paper, “LSST: From Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products” was published in the March 11, 2019 issue of The Astrophysical Journal.