LSST:UK Confluence page with workshop summary
Monday 25th of September:
10:00 - 10:55 Registration & Coffee
10:55 - 11:00 Welcome & Logistics (Manda Banerji)
SESSION 1: LSST SCIENCE COLLABORATION OVERVIEW (Chair: Graham Smith)
11:00 - 11:40 LSST AGN Science Overview (Niel Brandt)
11:40 - 12:20 LSST Galaxies Science Overview (Harry Ferguson)
SESSION 2: INFRA-RED SURVEYS
12:20 - 12:40 The VISTA Extragalactic Imaging Surveys (Manda Banerji)
12:40 - 13:00: Bright, High-Redshift Galaxies from Deep Wide Optical + NIR Surveys (Rebecca Bowler)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 2: INFRA-RED SURVEYS (Chair: Manda Banerji)
14:00 - 14:20 Searching for 7.0 < z < 8.0 quasars with LSST+Euclid (Rhys Barnett)
14:20 - 14:40 The Spitzer SERVS and DeepDrill Surveys and LSST (Dave Clements)
14:40 - 15:00 Multi-wavelength Data Fusion for the Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project (Seb Oliver)
15:00 - 15:45 Discussion on multi-wavelength SED-fitting and photometric redshifts (led by Rebecca Bowler & Will Hartley)
15:45 - 16:15 Coffee
SESSION 3: DEEP DRILLING FIELDS AND COMMISSIONING
16:15 - 16:45 LSST Project Update: Deep Drilling Fields Definition & Mini-Surveys (Melissa Graham via Skype)
16:45 - 17:30 Discussion on Deep Drilling Fields (led by Matt Jarvis, Stephen Smartt) & Commissioning Plans (led by Graham Smith)
Tuesday 26th of September
SESSION 4: X-RAYS AND AGN (Chair: David Alexander)
09:00 - 09:20 LSST-Athena Synergy (Mike Watson)
09:40 - 10:00 Galaxy Clusters in XCS+DES (Kathy Romer)
10:00 - 10:20 Lensed Quasars in Wide-Field Optical Surveys (Cameron Lemon)
10:20 - 10:40 Following up extreme AGN variables (Andy Lawrence)
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee
SESSION 5: TRANSIENT SCIENCE (Chair: Stephen Smartt)
11:10 - 11:30 TiDES - The Time-Domain Extragalactic Survey with 4MOST (Sebastian Hoenig)
11:30 - 11:50 Simultaneous Observations of Transients with LSST and Euclid: Implications for the Deep Drilling Fields (Isobel Hook)
11:50 - 12:10 The Time Domain in Clusters of Galaxies (Alastair Edge)
12:10 - 13:00 Discussion on Data Fusion Algorithms + Computational Requirements (led by Richard McMahon & Seb Oliver)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
SESSION 6: MILLIMETER AND RADIO WAVELENGTHS (Chair: Seb Oliver)
14:00 - 14:20 The ALMA-LSST Synergy (Gary Fuller)
14:20 - 14:40 Deep-Drilling Fields: Current & Future Radio Data (Matt Jarvis)
14:40 - 15:00 Multi-wavelength Cosmology from LSST and SKA (David Bacon)
15:00 - 15:20 SKA-LSST Synergies (Alkistis Pourtsidou)
15:20 - 15:50 Coffee
16:30 - 17:30 Begin planning Phase B Funding Proposal(s)
19:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner at Clare Hall College
Wednesday 27th of September
SESSION 7: MULTI-WAVELENGTH CATALOGUES, PHOTOMETRIC REDSHIFTS (Chair: Matt Jarvis)
09:30 - 09:50 Data Fusion for Galaxy Clusters (Graham Smith)
09:50 - 10:10 The UKIDSS-UDS DR11 Multi-wavelength Catalogue (Will Hartley)
10:10 - 10:30 Improving Photometric Redshift Estimation using GPZ (Zahra Gomez)
10:30 - 10:50 Using HI Intensity Mapping to Calibrate LSST Photometric Redshifts (Steve Cunnington)
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee
11:20 - 12:30 Phase B Funding Proposals & Wrap-up (All)
DEPARTMENTAL COLLOQUIUM (IN SACKLER LECTURE THEATRE):
16:00 - 17:00 A Good Hard Look at Cosmic Supermassive Black Hole Growth (Niel Brandt)