Workshop Agenda

Presentations and posters are archived on this BNL Indico workshop page.  


Day 1: How do foreground physical effects bias shape and magnification measurements and photometry? What are the open questions in understanding these physical effects on LSST weak lensing science?

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Time

Topic

Where / Who?

7:30 - 8:15

Breakfast

Conference Center

8:15 - 8:30

Workshop goals and organization

Tony Tyson, Pat Burchat

 

CHAIR: Pat Burchat

 

8:30 - 9:30

(30’+30’)

Milky Way dust: impact on photometry and WL science; open questions

Doug Finkbeiner

9:30 - 10:30

(30’+30’)

The atmosphere and chromatic PSF effects on galaxy shape measurements

Josh Meyers

10:30 - 10:45

(15’)

One-minute intros to posters on effects of Milky Way dust, atmosphere and transmission

Awan, Green, Kent, Schlafly, Abate, Schmidt, Kamath, Meyers

10:45 - 11:30

(45’)

              Poster Session 1:

Effects of MW dust, atmosphere and transmission

Coffee


Poster Abstracts

11:30 - 12:15

(45’)

Image result for icon for round table discussion               Round Table 1:

MW dust and atmosphere

Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs

12:15 - 1:00

(45’)

Lunch

 

1:00 - 1:30

(30’)

Image result for icon for email     Email break / small-group discussions

Scribes from RT 1 each prepare one-slide report to be given Tuesday morning.

 

CHAIR: Tony Tyson

 

1:30 - 2:30

(30’+30’)

PSF modelling for atmospheric effects: challenges and open questions

Aaron Roodman

2:30 - 3:30

(30’+30’)

Sensor effects: what we know; open questions

 

Chris Stubbs

3:30 - 3:45

(15’)

One-minute intros to posters on sensor effects and understanding the PSF

Baumer, Bradshaw, Gruen, Kannawadi Jayaraman, Lage, Nomerotski, Rasmussen

3:45 - 4:30

(45’)

              Poster Session 2:

Sensor effects and understanding the PSF

Coffee


Poster Abstracts

4:30 - 5:15

(45’)

Image result for icon for round table discussion             Round Table 2:

  CCDs; PSF corrections for physical effects

Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs

5:15 - 6:00

(45’)

Image result for icon for email   Email break / small-group discussions /

Tour of optical simulator

(Andrew Bradshaw, Craig Lage)

Scribes from RT 1 and 2 each prepare one-slide report to be given Tuesday morning.

6:30

Workshop Reception/ Dinner

Hyatt

 

Day 2: How do we tackle the open questions in understanding physical effects on LSST weak lensing science?

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Time

Topic

Where / Who?

7:30 - 8:30

Breakfast

Conference Center

 

CHAIR: Aaron Roodman

 

8:30 - 9:30

(60’)

Reports from Round Table 1 and Round Table 2; moderated discussion

Ten scribes;

discussion moderator - Roodman

9:30 - 10:15

(15’+15’+15’)

Physics models and simulations of sensors

Correcting sensor systematics in DM

Craig Lage

Jim Bosch

10:15 - 10:30

(15’)

One-minute summaries of posters on wavefront modeling, calibration with data, magnification

Davis, Snyder, Srinath, Mandelbaum, Ford, Morrison, Gaztanaga

10:30 - 11:00

(30’)

          Poster Session 3:

Wavefront modeling, calibration with data, magnification

Coffee


Poster Abstracts

11:00 - 11:35

(20’+15’)

Understanding MW dust with precursor data, measurements, and simulations

Eli Rykoff

11:35 - 12:10

(20’+15’)

Understanding the atmosphere with precursor data, measurements, and simulations

David Burke

12:10 - 1:00

(50’)

Lunch

Image result for icon for email   Email break

 

 

CHAIR: Chris Stubbs

 

1:00 - 1:30

(15’+15’)

Survey strategy for systematics discovery; suppression of impact of physical effects

Tony Tyson

1:30 - 2:00

(15’+15’)

Opportunities to use commissioning data to validate our understanding of physical effects

Chuck Claver

2:00 - 2:50

(20’+20’+10’)

Exploring and discovering systematics with precursor data and null tests

Mike Jarvis,

James Jee

2:50 - 3:30

(40’)

Image result for icon for round table discussion             Round Table 3:

Tackling the unknowns

Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs

3:30 - 4:00

(30’)

Image result for icon for email               Email break / Coffee

Scribes from RT 3 prepare brief reports.

4:00 - 5:00

(60’)

Reports from Round Table 3; moderated discussion of next steps.

Five scribes; discussion moderator - Stubbs

5:00

Workshop ends.