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LSST@Europe4 was the fourth meeting dedicated to foster the presence of Rubin LSST in Europe and the first one since 2018 due to the COVID pandemic. As this meeting is designed with the goal of connecting communities with Rubin and with each other, the organizers believed supporting and enabling meetings between people was a core deliverable of this meeting. Nevertheless, we facilitated remote attendance and ran the meeting in Hybrid mode.
The meeting was organized in Rome Italyat the historic Academia dei Lincei and Villa Farnesina.
Triumph of Galatea, circa 1512, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael), Villa Farnesina, Rome. Photo Credit Dr. Ritz, 2022 (check out the monster dolphins on the bottom right!)
The schedule was organized around four broad topics: updates from the Observatory, panels on synergies with other facilities and surveys (primarily focusing on ESO and ESA resources) surveys, Science Collaborations sessions showcasing the work of the SCs and enabling connections between international members of the SCs and between the SCs and the observatory.
All session were streamed and videos are available on our Youtube Channel RubinLSST@Europe4 =>
Images from Dr. Michael Jones McKean's, Rubin Artist in residence, presentation "Leaning into the Dark: An Observatory as Culture Machine" (slides)
other parallel sessions as suggested by the community: a session on commissioning including a discussion of the Auxiliary Telescope, or AuxTel, role in commissioning, a session on low surface brightness science, and a session dedicated to the Rubin Artist in Residence program.
The organizers recommend the excellent summary talks by Dr. Steve Ritz (Rubin Project Scientist) to hear about the event!
Images from Dr. Steve Ritz's presentation (slide)
Abstracts, slides, and link to videos of the talks and sessions can be found on our Abstract Booklet, along with links to videos. Navigate the booklet (organized by speaker's first name)
unconferences: crowded field photometry | issc-planning collaborations | YSO follow up | European stack club planning | radio-synergy | Rubin intro for early career scientists
234 participants registered from 27 countries including 18 European countries. Of the registered participants, 85% were affiliated with one or more Science Collaborations, 36.5% of the participants were Early Career scientists (Postdoc, Graduate, or Undergraduate students) and 43% of the speakers were Early Career scientists. Over 50% of the participants were participating fully in-person and 65% in person on at least one day.
5,560 messages were exchanged on our meeting's Slack, with connections and conversations lasting well past the meeting itself.
Word cloud of slack channel #hello-my-name-is
Excerpt from the #hello-my-name-is channel on slack
LSST@Europe4 Participants on the main scalae of Academia Lincei
We thank you all!
our amazing plenary speakers, contributed speakers, moderators and organizers of parallel sessions, and all of the participants who made this event a memorable opportunity to gather again to plan the future of Rubin LSST in Europe!
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