Subject: LSST SWG meeting in Seattle; send agenda items!

From: strauss@astro.Princeton.EDU

Submitted: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 12:58:05 -0500 (EST)

Message number: 47 (previous: 46, next: 48 up: Index)

Hello all,
  As you know, the LSST Science Working Group will be meeting on
Thursday, January 9, at the AAS meeting.  As Sidney Wolff has already
announced, we will meet at the Menzies Suite on the 6th floor of the
Grand Hyatt Seattle (next to the hotel where the AAS will be taking
place); we will start at 10 AM (i.e., we'll walk over leisurely after
Chris Stubbs' presentation that morning).   We will have lunch brought
to us, and we will work until 1:30.  From 2-3:30 is a session on LSST
at the AAS itself, which several of us will be giving presentations
at.  We will make the decision during the meeting from 10-1:30 whether
we have enough stuff to talk about to continue our discussions from
3:30 to 5:30.  

  I would like to call for agenda items, and volunteers to lead
discussion.  Our phone meeting a few weeks ago (and indeed our e-mail
exchanges on lsst-general) have been heavily weighted towards
discussion of the weak lensing science and the near-Earth asteroid
search.  That's wonderful, and we should continue to talk about these
things, but I would also like to get further discussion this time of:
	   The Kuiper belt
	   Supernova Science
	   The variable universe

  Our aim is to move towards a Design Reference Mission, i.e., a
specific quantitative set of requirements on the LSST to carry out
specific scientific goals.  I would like to have some open discussion
in each of our major areas of science (NEOs, KBO's, variable universe,
supernovae, weak lensing, astrometric studies, and the high-redshift
universe) to see how to get these specific science programs hammered
out.  (Again, volunteers are needed to lead the discussion, although
not necessarily to prepare a formal presentation).  

  I would then like to have a discussion on how we can integrate these
different plans.  Chris Stubbs has long been an advocate of the
general idea that the LSST science drivers naturally mesh together,
and I would like to ask him to lead this discussion. 

  Other items for us to touch upon:
	-What's new on the tsunami hazard?  Has anyone had further
   contact with Jay Melosh?  The NASA NEO Hazards committee is meeting
   the next day; any gossip about what will be covered there? 

        -Status of on-line documentation: What's new at NOAO,
	lsst.org, and Pan-Starrs? 

       -News about the LSST corporation. 

       -A next meeting in Tucson in March? 

I believe that the following SWG members are planning to attend the
meeting; please let me know if this is incorrect: 

Michael Strauss
Chris Stubbs
Andy Connolly
Al Harris
Dave Jewitt 
Gary Bernstein (may be late)
Mike Shara
Nick Kaiser
David Morrison
Dave Monet
Kem Cook
Tony Tyson
Steve Larson
Daniel Eisenstein
Peter Garnavich

Not attending:
Dennis Zaritsky
Alan Stern
Fiona Harrison

      Non-SWG members are welcome to attend the meeting, but should
let me know if they wish to do so, so that such details as lunch can
be arranged.  

	  Happy New Year to all; see you in a week!

			       -Michael Strauss

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