Subject: Meeting dates, and a scientific challenge
From: strauss@astro.Princeton.EDU
Submitted: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:29:48 -0500 (EST)
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Executive summary:
-We'll have a phonecon, Monday, December 9, 2-4 PM East Coast Time.
Please send suggested agenda items!
-We'll provisionally meet at the AAS 10-1:30, and perhaps 3:30 to
5:30, Thursday, January 9; Chris Stubbs will check whether
a room is available
-What are the scientific drivers for 10-second exposures?
Hello all,
Many apologies for being slow to set the dates for our next meeting;
I've been inundated with getting an NSF proposal out the door.
Thank you all for indicating your availability for the next
meetings. As we discussed earlier, the idea would be to have a phone
conference in a few weeks, to be followed by a face-to-face meeting at
the AAS, which most of us are planning to attend. For the phone
conference, the date that involves the fewest conflicts is Monday,
December 9, from 2-4 PM East Coast Time. I know that doesn't work for
Steve Larson, Kem Cook, or Dave Monet; sorry guys, but it is literally
true that this is the least conflicted time for everybody over the
full three weeks from November 25-December 13. I will get call-in
information soon and let you all know. If anyone else has a conflict
at that time, please let me know!
I would like calls for agenda items for this meeting. The idea is
that there will be progress reports from our various groups trying to
put together coherent scientific cases for the LSST science projects;
I hope that people will post results, questions, random thoughts,
etc., to this mailing list. (For example, Tony, you said you were
about to send something around on weak lensing...)
As for the AAS, the schedule is now out; check out:
http://www.aas.org/meetings/aas201/program/program.html
The schedule of the meeting is heavily front-loaded, with most of
the invited talks and the town meetings in the first few days. The
regular oral sessions are held between 10-11:30, and 2-3:30, each day,
with poster sessions of course lasting all day. This actually gives
us some flexibility.
Our own Chris Stubbs is speaking Thursday morning bright and early,
in an invited talk from 8:30-9:20 AM. There is a special oral LSST
session from 2 to 3:30 that afternoon. Some of us were planning to
leave that evening. Therefore, let me suggest that we plan to meet
for the middle of the day, say from 10 AM to 1:30 PM. That will mean
that we will have to miss one oral session on Thursday morning.
Chris, as our local contact, does this make sense to you? Can we find
a room in which to meet? Can we have pizza or sandwiches brought in?
If we find ourselves with more stuff to discuss than we can cover in
3.5 hours, we could consider reconvening after the LSST oral session
at 3:30, say continuing the discussion for another two hours. Chris,
please get back to us whether this will work.
As I've pleaded with you all before, let's use the lsst-general
e-mail exploder (just send e-mail to lsst-general@astro.princeton.edu)
to discuss the scientific issues before us. Let start with a
provocative question: it has been claimed by some that the LSST
science requires being able to go to r=24 (5-sigma, point source) in
10 seconds, while others claim that there is no science driver that
requires this in less than 30 seconds. Could people please explain
the relevant science drivers they have in mind?
-Michael Strauss
P.S. Many apologies for getting Al Harris' e-mail address wrong in my
last e-mail posting. The correct e-mail address is:
harrisaw@colorado.edu
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