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Australian LSST Workshop 2020


2020 has been a pivotal year for the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), to be carried out by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. A virtual half-day workshop was held on Monday 14 Dec 2020 at which Australian Science Lead for the LSST, Prof. Sarah Brough updated the community on the in-kind proposal process underway to secure data access rights for at least 35 Australian PIs (and up to 4 Junior Researchers each). Following that was a series of short presentations about work that Australian researchers and their groups are currently involved in that relate to the LSST, the various LSST Science Collaborations, or that in some way will help add value to our LSST engagement. A transcript of the Q&A via Zoom Chat following some of the talks is also available.

 Workshop program
Time (AEDT)
Time (AWST)
Speaker
Title
12:00
09:00
Stuart Ryder (AAL)
Welcome & housekeeping
12:05
09:05
Sarah Brough (UNSW)
Australia & LSST Update (+ introduction to the LSST broker Fink by Anais Möller)
12:20
09:20
Yuan-Sen Ting (Princeton/ANU)
Weak lensing & cosmology with LSST
12:35
09:35
Rachel Webster (U. Melbourne)
Microlensing Quasars
12:50
09:50
Tara Murphy (U. Sydney)
Radio transients in the LSST era
13:05
10:05
Karl Glazebrook (Swinburne)
Strong lensing with LSST
13:20
10:20
Ilya Mandel (Monash)
LSST transient observations as probes of binary evolution
13:35
10:35
Timothy Holt (USQ)
Using Astrocladistics to analyse LSST Solar system objects
13:50
10:50
            
Break
14:00
11:00
Amanda Karakas (Monash)
Theoretical rates of white-dwarf transients
14:15
11:15
Daniel Zucker (Macquarie)
Stellar Streams in the Halo of the Milky Way
14:30
11:30
Krzysztof Bolejko (U. Tasmania)
Studying dark matter with cosmic voids 
14:45
11:45
Cristina Martinez-Lombilla (UNSW)
Unveiling the diffuse light in galaxy groups with Hyper Suprime-Cam 
15:00
12:00
Luca Casagrande (ANU)
Photometric stellar parameters and stellar populations with LSST filters
15:15
12:15
Sarah Brough (UNSW)
Workshop summary and plans for 2021
15:20
12:20
        
Workshop ends
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