Plenary Talks

Chair: Luiz N. da Costa 

Rubin Overview  by Robert Blum, Director for LSST Operations (slides, video)

Rubin construction status by Jacques Sebag, Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIV) Manager (slides, video)

Chair: Rogerio Rosenfeld

Rubin Education and Public Outreach by Alan Strauss, Head of Education and Public Outreach at Vera C. Rubin Observatory (slides, video)

Chair: Yasna Ordenes

LSST Camera by Kevin Reil, Rubin Observatory Scientist

Overview of LSST Activities in LATAM Countries

Chair: Mariano Dominguez

Video 

Chile: Timo Anguita, Franz Bauer (Slides)

Mexico: Alma González (Slides)

Chair: Rogerio Rosenfeld

Video

Argentina: Mariano Dominguez and Diego Garcia Lambas.

Chair: Yasna Ordenes

Brazil: Luiz Nicolaci da Costa and Rogerio Rosenfeld.

Science Collaboration Overviews

Chair: Julia Gschwend

Galaxies: Simona Mei (APC - Paris) (slides,video)

Chair: Alma Gonzalez

Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume:  Kristen Dage (Michigan State University) (slides, video)

Chair: Ana Chies Santo

Solar System: Meg Schwamb (Queen's University - Belfast)

Chair: TBA

Transients and Variable Stars: Rosaria Bonito (INAF - Palermo)

Chair: Octavio Valenzuela

Active Galactic Nuclei: Matthew Temple (Durham University) 

Chair: Alma Gonzalez

Strong Lensing: Timo Anguita (Universidad Andrés Bello, Santiago) and Narayan Khadka (Stony Brook University)

Chair: Ignacio Reyes

Informatics and Statistics: François Lanusse (Flatiron Institute)

Chair: Rogerio Rosenfeld

Dark Energy: Chris Walter (Duke University)

Sessions

Chair: Alma González 

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Chair: Rodrigo Boufleur

Photo-z Session 

• BRA-LIN S4 - Software development and advanced data products to support Rubin's Photometric Redshifts production by Julia Gschwend (Postdoc, LINEA)

• Semi-supervised learning for Photo-z by Alvaro Callejas (PhD Student, UNAM)

 Chair: Rodrigo Boufleur

Brokers and Follow-ups Session 

• The ALeRCE broker: a Rubin Community Broker by Francisco Förster (Senior Faculty, Universidad de Chile) -> ISSC?

• Science with the ALeRCE community broker by Alejandra Muñoz (Postdoc, MAS/CMM)

• New machine learning models of the ALeRCE broker by Ignacio Reyes (Junior Faculty, ALERCE)

• The Astronomical Observatory Network (AEON):a follow up ecosystem for the LSST Era by Cesar Briceno (NOIRLAB)

Chair: Timo Anguita

IDACs Session 

•  DAC/IDAC introduction by Knut Olsen (NOIRLab)

• Mexico IDAC by Octavio Valenzuela (Senior Faculty, UNAM))

• Brazilian IDAC for LSST by Carlos Adean de Souza (Senior Faculty, LINEA)

• Discussion about use of the Chilean Facility by Francisco Forster ( Senior Faculty, CMM/MAS)

Chair: Julia Gschwend

Contributed Talks I 

Video Slides 

• Morphological Classification of Galaxies Through Structural and Non-structural Parameters Using Machine Learning by Jose Vazquez (Postdoc, UNAM)

• CHANCES: Chilean Galaxy Evolution Survey with 4MOST and its synergies with LSST by Yara Yaffe (Senior Faculty, U. Técnica Federico Santa María)

• Studying galaxy clusters with 4MOST-CHANCES and LSST by Cristopher Haines (Faculty, U. Atacama)

• The formation and properties of the Intracluster Light by Rebecca Mayes (Postdoc, ULS)

Chair: Alma González

Contributed Talks II 

• Globular cluster systems as probes of the build-up of galaxies and their environments in the LSST era by Ana Chies Santos (Senior Faculty, UFRGS) 

• Characterizing stellar haloes of dwarf galaxies by Elissa Tau (PhD Student, ULS)

• Kinematics  of the NGC 4945 diffuse stellar halo with MUSE by Camila Beltran (PhD Student, ULS) 

• Neighbourhood Watch: A Survey of Baryonic Substructures in the Nearby Universe by Rohan Rahatgaonkar (PhD Student, PUC)

Chair: Ana Chies Santo

Contributed Talks III 

• LSST forecast of ultra-faint dSph orbits by Eric D’Antona (LIneA, remote)

• The LIneA Solar System Portal: A New Paradigm in Occultation Predictions in the Big Data Era by Rodrigo Boufleur (Postdoc, LIneA)

• The Large-Scale Structure of the Universe: The Norma Bridge Project Fernanda Milla (PhD Student, ULS)

• Theoretical characterization of Fossil groups using hydrodynamical simulations by Mary Verdugo (PhD student, ULS) 

Chair: Timo Anguita

Contributed Talks IV 

• Non gaussianity and relativistic contributions in cosmological simulations by Miguel Vargas (Postdoc, UNAM)

• Bayesian Analysis of Cluster Weak Lensing by Caio Lima de Oliveira (PhD student, U. Londrina)

• Super sample covariance matrix effects on cosmological constraints by Henrique Lettieri (PhD student, U. Londrina)

Chair: TBA

Contributed Talks V 

• Optical Variability of Local X-ray Selected AGN, by Priscilla Behar ( PhD Student, PUC)

• Revealing the effects of environment on  galaxy bars: the case of the Virgo cluster by Virginia Cuomo ( Postdoc, U. Atacama)

• Towards a robust framework for identifying the intracluster light in hydrodynamic simulations and observations by Daniel Esteban Montenegro-Taborda (PhD student, IRyA, UNAM)

Chair: Antonio Vazquez

Contributed Talks VI

• Studying  the Variability of Quasars as a function of rest-frame wavelength by Priyanjali Patel (PhD student, Universidad de Chile)

• Constraining Quasar photometric redshifts using variability in the era of large surveys by Sarath Satheesh Sheeba (PhD student, U. Andres Bello) 

• Exploring the potential for Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) emission line delays using LSST by Swayamtrupta Panda (Postdoct, LNA)

• Eruptive Young Stellar Object in the Large-Scale Survey Era, by Zhen Guo (Junior Faculty , U. Valparaiso)

Chair: Alma Gonzalez

Contributed Talks VII 

• The last stand before Rubin: assembly, tagging, modeling, and applications of a large compilation of SL systems with ground-based images by Martin Makler (ICAS/ICIFI/UNSAM&CONICET and CBPF)

• Machine Learning for Strong Gravitational Lens Detection by Rene Parlange (PhD Student, UASLP)

• Artificial intelligence algorithms for time delay estimation by Juan C. Cuevas Tello (Senior Faculty, UASLP)

•  Enhanced Time-Delay Estimation via Data Preprocessing by Luis Leon (Postdoc, UNAM)

Chair: Ignacio Reyes

Contributed Talks VIII 

• Characterizing Stochastic 1D and 2D Signals with deep learning, by Luan Orion Barauna (PhD Student, INPE)

• ELEPHANT: ExtragaLactic alErt Pipeline for Hostless AstroNomical Transients by Rafael S. de Souza (Senior Faculty, University of Hertfordshire)

• Revealing the central engine of AQMES quasars via ZTF monitoring, by Hygor Benati Gonçalves (MsC Student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS)

• Select changing-look AGN and resolving accretion disks with ZTF and in the future LSST, by Marcelo Camaran Lucas (Junior Faculty, RIO)

 Chair: TBA

Contributed Talks IX

• Galaxy Evolution in Compact Groups: Revealing the peculiar population and Major Structural Influences by Gisel Montaguth (PhD Student, ULS)

• Global morphological perturbations as a probe of galaxy formation, evolution and environment by Arianna Dolfi (Posdoc, ULS)

• Analysis of Galactic Halos Hydrodynamical Simulations and CNN by Alex Vera (PhD Student, ULS)

Zoom assistants from the University of La Serena

Monday morning     - Gissel Pardo

Monday afternoon   - Arianna Dolfi

Tuesday morning    - Camila Beltrand

Tuesday afternoon  - Elisa Tau

Thurday morning     - Hugo Méndez

Thursday afternoon - Ciria Lima Dias

Friday morning        - Pamela Marchant

Friday afternoon      - Marcos Bugueño