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.
2023-03-17: Graduate students, apply for the LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program.
2023-03-31: Undergraduate & graduate students, apply for the La Serena School for Data Science.
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.
2023 May 16-18 Surveys 2 Discovery Workshop, Montreal, Canada
2023 May 22-24 - Commissioning Science Validation Bootcamp 2023, Virtual
2023 June 12-16 Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy (SCMA) VIII, Pennsylvania State University
2023 June 12-16 - Rubin Observatory's Data Preview 0 (DP0) Virtual Summer School
2023 July 24-28 Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) Meeting, SLAC
2023 August 7-11 Rubin Project and Community Workshop, Tucson, AZ
2023 Aug 7-17 - La Serena School for Data Science, La Serena, Chile.
2023 September 25-29 LSST@Europe5, Poreč, Croatia
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 -- 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 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.
Financial support for Rubin Observatory comes from the National Science Foundation (NSF) through Cooperative Agreement No. 1258333, the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515, and private funding raised by the LSST Corporation. The NSF-funded Rubin Observatory Project Office for construction was established as an operating center under management of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA). The DOE-funded effort to build the Rubin Observatory LSST Camera (LSSTCam) is managed by the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC).
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an
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in 1950 to promote the progress of science. NSF supports basic research and people to create knowledge that transforms the future.
NSF and DOE will continue to support Rubin Observatory in its Operations phase. They will also provide support for scientific research with LSST data.
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