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 |
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CHAIR: Pat Burchat |
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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’) |
Effects of MW dust, atmosphere and transmission Coffee |
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11:30 - 12:15 (45’) |
MW dust and atmosphere |
Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs |
12:15 - 1:00 (45’) |
Lunch |
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1:00 - 1:30 (30’) |
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Scribes from RT 1 each prepare one-slide report to be given Tuesday morning. |
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CHAIR: Tony Tyson |
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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
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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’) |
Sensor effects and understanding the PSF Coffee |
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4:30 - 5:15 (45’) |
CCDs; PSF corrections for physical effects |
Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs |
5:15 - 6:00 (45’) |
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 |
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CHAIR: Aaron Roodman |
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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’) |
Wavefront modeling, calibration with data, magnification Coffee |
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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
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CHAIR: Chris Stubbs |
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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’) |
Tackling the unknowns |
Moderator & Scribe assigned to each of five RTs |
3:30 - 4:00 (30’) |
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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. |