LSST 2016 Project and Community Workshop
Dear Colleagues,
Currently under construction in Chile, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is designed to conduct a ten-year survey of the dynamic universe to address four main science areas with one universal cadence: Understanding the Mysterious Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Hazardous Asteroids and the Remote Solar System, The Transient Optical Sky, and The Formation and Structure of the Milky Way. Annually the project team meets with interested members of the science community to share information and prepare for LSST Operations.
The LSST 2016 Project and Community Workshop will take place the week of August 15th in Tucson, AZ, and the website is now OPEN for registration.
The meeting sessions consist of three elements: plenary talks, breakout sessions, and an unconference. The plenary talks will be of broad interest to the scientific community, selected to be useful and informative both to newcomers and those familiar with LSST. For the breakout sessions, we invite you to participate in active session development using the LSST Community Forum. As breakout ideas take shape, we will match developed sessions with the available meeting spaces. This forum is a great opportunity to find out who amongst our ever-growing community shares your interests and concerns, and to work with them to design the meeting you'd like to attend! As new ideas or needs for extended conversations arise over the course of the meeting, they can be accommodated on the fly during the unconference. (Read more about how unconferences work here.)
We invite all community participants to help develop ideas for breakout sessions, and with assistance from the collaborations we have initiated some threads in the LSST community forum to capture the conversation. The starting point is here.
We look forward to seeing you in Tucson for a productive LSST 2016 Project & Community Workshop.
LSST Director Steve Kahn and your LSST 2016 Organizing Committee:
Suzanne Jacoby, Lucianne Walkowicz, Phil Marshall, Beth Willman, Lynne Jones, Steve Ridgway, Daniel Calabrese, Victor Krabbendam, Zeljko Ivezic