LSST@Europe 6
La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
16-20 September 2024
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Mon 16 Sep

  • 8:00am - 9:00am Registration

  • 9:00am - 11:00am Welcome and Rubin status report, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Nacho Sevilla

    • 9:00 - 9:30. Welcome

    • 9:30 - 10:00. Rubin Observatory Construction Status. Zeljko Ivezic(University of Washington, invited)

    • 10:00 - 10:30. The LSST Discovery Alliance. Dan Peluso (LSST DA, invited, 20')

    • 10:30 - 10:50. Status of System Integration. Kevin Reil (SLAC, invited, 20')

  • 11:00am - 11:30am Coffee Break

  • 11:30am - 1:00pm Plenaries La Palma, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Johan Knapen

    • 11:30 - 12:15. The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and the Canary Islands Observatories: Past, Present and Future. Valentín Martínez-Pillet (Director, IAC, invited, 45')

    • 12:15 - 1:00. The 2022 eruption of the Tajogaite Volcano in La Palma. Nemesio Pérez (Coordinator of the Instituto de Volcanología de Canarias, INVOLCAN, invited, 45')

  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch

  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm Rubin-Euclid discussion, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Leanne Guy

    • 2:30 - 2:40: Overview of Joint Processing. Aaron Meisner, NOIRLab / Rubin Observatory

    • 2:40 - 2:55 Update from the Rubin-Euclid DDP Implementation Working Group. Eric Jullo (Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille, remote)

    • 2:55 - 3:10. A Euclid-like addition to the Rubin+Roman simulation.: Axel Guinot (Carnegie Mellon University, remote)

    • 3:10 - 3:30. Rubin Cutout Service tutorial. Christina Williams (NOIRLab/Rubin Observatory, remote)

  • 3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break

  • 4:00pm - 5:40pm Rubin status, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Kevin Reil

    • 4:00 - 4:20. Preparing the community for early science. Leanne Guy (Rubin Observatory, invited)

    • 4:20 - 4:40. Bringing Rubin to the World: Education and Public Outreach and Citizen Science. Clare Higgs (NSF's Noirlab/Rubin Observatory, invited)

    • 4:40 - 5:00. It's happening! Rubin Operations is coming soon. Bob Blum (Rubin Observatory, invited, remote)

    • 5:00 - 5:20. Status of Rubin Alert Production. Eric Bellm (University of Washington, invited, remote)

    • 5:20 - 5:40. Survey Strategy. Lynne Jones (University of Washington, invited)

Tue 17 Sep

  • 9:00am - 10:30am In-kind Contribution talks, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Aprajita Verma

    • 9:00 - 9:15. In-kind Program Update. Aprajita Verma (U.Oxford)/Steve Margheim (NOIRLab) (invited)

    • 9:15 - 9:35. The Gran Telescopio CANARIAS and its place in the in-kind programme. Romano Corradi (Director GTC) / Johan Knapen (IAC) (invited)

    • 9:35 - 9:50.Updates on the SER-SAG-S2 in-kind contribution to follow-up observations with 1.4m Milankovic telescope. Dragana Ilic (University of Belgrade)

    • 9:50 - 10:05. The Timedomes in-kind project: a status update. Maurizio Paolillo (Università di Napoli Federico II, remote)

    • 10:05 - 10:25. Atmospheric transparency variations and photometric corrections with AuxTel. Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne (IJCLab/IN2P3/CNRS, remote) and Martín Rodríguez-Monroy (Instituto de Física Teórica de Madrid)

  • 10:30am - 10:50am Coffee Break

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm In-kind Contribution talks, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Steve Margheim

    • 11:00 - 11:20. The PIC data center and its involvement in the in-kind program. Jorge Carretero and Ramon Sanfeliu (Port d'Informació Científica, invited)

    • 11:20 - 11:35. Rubin LSST Optical Followup with South African Facilities. David Buckley (SAAO, 15')

    • 11:35 - 11:50. An overview of the Polish in-kind program and the Polish IDAC. Agnieszka Pollo and Krzysztof Nawrocki (NCBJ & UJ)

    • 11:50 - 12:05. Low surface brightness science with LSST--the opportunities and the dangers. Aaron Watkins (University of Hertfordshire)

    • 12:05 - 12:20. SER-SAG-S1 directable software in-kind contribution: LSST pre-operational update. Andjelka Kovacevic (University of Belgrade)

    • 12:20 - 12:35. In-kind contribution ITA-INA-S25: third release and updates of the TRILEGAL simulations of the Rubin/LSST stellar content. Giada Pastorelli (University of Padova/ INAF)

    • 12:35 - 12:50. Exploiting macauff cross-matches with two new Rubin software packages: birnam and banquo. Tom J. Wilson (University of Exeter)

    • 12:50 - 1:05. M2 integration. Rodolfo Canestrari (INAF - IASF - Palermo)

  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch

  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm Panel: Lowering Barriers to Participate in Rubin Science, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Nacho Sevilla

    • Panelists: Beth Willman, Dragana Ilic, Steve Margheim, Sara Bonito (remote)

  • 3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break

  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm IDACs Discussion session, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Knut Olsen

    • 4:00 - 4:10. Introduction

    • 4:15 - 4:30. Supercomputer ’Bura’ as a Croatian software processing centre for Rubin/LSST- related science. Tomislav Jurkic (University of Rijeka)

    • 4:30 - 5:30. Discussion

  • 5:30pm - 5:45pm Group picture

  • 7:00pm - 8:30pm Public lectures (in Spanish) in Teatro Chico, Santa Cruz de La Palma

Wed 18 Sep

  • 9:00am - 10:30am Galaxies, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Sugata Kaviraj, Simona Mei, Ignacio Trujillo - Contributed talks: 12+2 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:20. Introduction to the Galaxies SC. Simona Mei & Sugata Kaviraj

    • 9:20 - 9:34. 11. The properties of AGN in dwarf galaxies identified via SED fitting: AGN frequency and the role of environment in black-hole triggering. Brian Bichanga

    • 9:34 - 9:48. 12. Using galaxy star formation histories to trace the coevolution of galaxies and cosmic structure with LSST. Charlotte Olsen

    • 9:48 - 10:02. 39. Unusual metallicity gradient and star formation efficiency in the giant low surface brightness galaxy Malin 1. Junais. (remote)

    • 10:02 - 10:16. 63. Complete Spitzer Survey of Stellar Structure in Galaxies (CS4G): Disc galaxy extension and surface brightness profiles. P. M. Sánchez-Alarcón

    • 10:16 - 10:30. 1. Simulated vs. observed cluster dwarf galaxies: New Horizon and the Fornax Cluster. Aaron Watkins

  • 9:00am - 10:30am DESC, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Elisa Chisari, Nacho Sevilla - Contributed talks: 12+3 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:05. Introduction to DESC and this session. Nacho Sevilla

    • 9:05 - 9:20. 17. The LSST DESC static analysis roundtable. Elisa Chisari

    • 9:20 - 9:35. 53. Observational systematics for galaxy clustering: transitioning from DES to LSST-DESC. Martín Rodríguez Monroy

    • 9:35 - 9:50. 28. Impacts on uncertain foreground contamination to cosmological measurements in DESC. Hui Kong

    • 9:50 - 10:05. 37. Templates from FORS2 observations to improve photometric redshifts estimation at higher z. Joseph Chevalier

    • 10:05 - 10:20. 70. YOLO for CLuster detection: machine learning and cluster detection + Photometric redshift estimation from galaxy images with machine learning. Simona Mei

    • 10:20 - 10:30. Discussion and wrap-up.

  • 10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm SLSC, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Aprajita Verma

    • 11:00 - 11:10 LSST Strong Lensing SC status. Aprajita Verma and SLSC co-chairs (in-person & remote).

    • 11:10 - 11:15 Investigating the Redshift Evolution of Lensing Galaxy Density Slopes via Model-Independent Distance Ratios in the Era of LSST. Shuaibo Geng.

    • 11:15 - 11:30 From Simulations to Surveys: Fine-tuning a Transformer Encoder for SGL Detection. Margherita Grespan.

    • 11:30 - 11:45 Discovering lensed SNe through deep learning multi-epoch LSST imaging data. Satadru Bag.

    • 11:45 - 12:00 Cluster-lensed supernovae as cosmological probes with the Roman and Rubin. Tanja Petrushevska.

    • 12:00 - 12:15 Deep learning based search of lenses at all mass scales for time-delay cosmography. Stefan Schuldt.

    • 12:15 - 12:30 Lensed type Ia supernovae in light of SN Zwicky and iPTF16geu. Ana Sainz de Murieta.

    • 12:30 - 13:00 Discussion

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm TVS, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Vincenzo Petrecca, Andreja Gomboc - Contributed talks: 12+3 mins.

    • 11:00 - 11:20. Introduction to TVS. Vincenzo Petrecca & Adreja Gomboc & Sara Bonito & Igor Andreoni (hybrid remote/in-person).

    • 11:20 - 11:35. 6. Young Stellar Objects in the Carina Nebula: Insights from DECam Data and Implications for Rubin LSST. Alessandro Salvatore Tramuto

    • 11:35 - 11:50. 7. Revealing stellar variability in the Galactic bulge: insights from DECam observations. Alonso Luna

    • 11:50 - 12:05. 27. Unveiling Luminous Red Novae in LSST from their archival progenitors and precursor lightcurves. Hugo Tranin

    • 12:05 - 12:20. 67. Fast Transient Discovery: LSST Survey Strategy Metrics and ZTF Continuous-Readout Findings. Shar Daniels

    • 12:20 - 12:35. IAC projects on astrophysical transients and plans for the Vera Rubin LSST. I. Pérez-Fournon

    • 12:35 - 12:40. 5. Teaching and learning astrophysical techniques with the IAC80, INT, Las Cumbres Observatory, and, soon, with the Vera Rubin LSST. I. Pérez-Fournon

    • 12:40 - 12:45. 3. Bullseye! What is flaring in galactic nuclei?. Eduardo Concepción

    • 12:45 - 12:50. 4. SIREN: A New Spectroscopic Classifier for Transients in the Era of Rubin. Edward Charleton

    • 12:50 - 1:00. Discussion.

  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch

  • 2:30pm - 9:00pm Excursion

Thu 19 Sep

  • 9:00am - 10:30am Galaxies, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Sugata Kaviraj, Simona Mei - Contributed talks: 12+2 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:14. 31. The morphological mix of dwarf Galaxies in The nearby Universe. Ilin Lazar

    • 9:14 - 9:28. 41. Can we hunt for indications of dust properties in Galaxies using LSST-like optical data?. Katarzyna Malek

    • 9:28 - 9:31. Dust attenuation and star formation histories at intermediate redshift. Mahmoud Hamed

    • 9:31 - 9:34. The Evolution of the Galaxy Stellar Mass Function in Sunyaev-Zel’dovich Selected Galaxy Clusters from ACT DR5. Damien Cole Ragavan

    • 9:34 - 9:48. 21. Surface brightness fluctuations: measurements and models with LSST. Gabriele Riccio

    • 9:48 - 10:02. 29. LSST 10-year coadded images: a preview with the LIGHTS survey. Ignacio Trujillo

    • 10:02 - 10:16. 24. A new era in galaxy edge characterisation with ultra-deep imaging. Giulia Golini

    • 10:16 - 10:30. Predictions of Galaxy Evolution Scaling Relations for Euclid. Cressida Cleland

    • 10:30 - 10:35. LSBGs, galaxy mergers, and other extragalactic sources: on the way to the LSST. Agnieszka Pollo

  • 9:00am - 10:30am TVS, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Vincenzo Petrecca, Andreja Gomboc, Shar Daniels - Contributed talks: 12+3 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:15. 23. Enhanced Stellar Pulsation Models to Pave the Road to the Rubin-LSST Revolution. Giulia De Somma

    • 9:15 - 9:30. 30. Synthetic Cepheid period-luminosity relations in Rubin-LSST filters. Ilaria Musella

    • 9:30 - 9:45. 49. Type II Cepheids as distance indicators: theoretical predictions in the Rubin-LSST filters. Marcella Marconi

    • 9:45 - 10:00. 78. Type II Cepheids in the Rubin LSST era. Teresa Sicignano

    • 10:00 - 10:30. Discussion

  • 10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm AGN, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Andjelka Kovacevic, Dragana Ilic, Jose Acosta Pulido - Contributed talks: 10+3 mins.

    • 11:00 - 11:15. 84. The 2024 State of the LSST AGN Science Collaboration and Its European Connections. William N. Brandt (remote)

    • 11:15 - 11:40. 82. AGILE: An empirical simulation pipeline to provide realistic LSST catalog-level data including AGN, galaxies and stars. Akke Viitanen (invited)

    • 11:40 - 11:53. 14. Scavanger hunt: finding obscured AGN via optical variability. Demetra De Cicco

    • 11:53 - 12:06. 83. Ensemble power spectral density of quasars in UV/optical bands. Vincenzo Petrecca

    • 12:06 - 12:19. 75. AGN in nearby dwarf galaxies selected via variability in the VST-COSMOS survey. Sugata Kaviraj

    • 12:19 - 12:32. 72. Quasar Outflows Imprinted in a Protocluster Halo at z=2.8. Sofia Gallego

    • 12:32 - 12:45. 54. Extreme AGN Variability in LSST and Follow-up Challenges. Matthew Temple

    • 12:45 - 1:00. Discussion and wrap-up.

  • 11:00am - 1:00pm ISSC, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Mireia Montes - Contributed talks: 15+5 mins.

    • 11:00 - 11:20. 25. DES to HSC: Detecting LSBGs in Abell 194 with Transformers via Transfer Learning. Hareesh Thuruthipilly

    • 11:20 - 11:40. 85. Tracing the change in star-formation rate throughout observed mergers. William Pearson

    • 11:40 - 12:00. 64. Inferring stellar population properties with simulation-based inference in the LSST era. Patricia Iglesias Navarro

    • 12:00 - 12:20. 69. Classifying Transients and Variables with distance metrics: DistClassiPy. Siddharth Chaini

    • 12:20 - 12:40. 87. NEural Engine for Discovering Luminous Events (NEEDLE): identifying rare transient candidates in real time from host galaxy images. Xinyue Sheng

    • 12:40 - 1:00. 20. Echoes of Light. Federica Bianco

  • 1:00pm - 2:30pm Lunch

  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm Rubin Synergies, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Kevin Reil

    • 2:30 - 2:45. Unlocking new studies of Dwarf Galaxies via fusing Rubin Observatory Optical and VISTA Near-Infrared Data. Elham Saremi

    • 2:45 - 3:00. Euclid transient search and synergy with LSST. Maria Teresa Botticella

    • 3:00 - 3:15. Gaia: Mapping the Milky Way a partner in science for the Vera Rubin Observatory surveys. Nic Walton

    • 3:15 - 3:30. Discussion

  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm GTC proposal hands-on session, San Miguel room (small), Chair(s): Johan Knapen

    • A session to guide through the proposal steps for GTC

  • 2:30pm - 3:30pm ML across science collaborations, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Ilin Lazar, Patricia Iglesias-Navarro

  • 14:30 – 14:35 Agnieszka Kryszczynska (Solar System Science Collaboration)

  • 14:35 - 14:40 Karlo Mrakovcic (Stars, Milky Way and Local Volume Science Collaboration)

  • 14:40 - 14:45 Federica Bianco (Transients and Variable Stars Science Collaboration)

  • 14:45 - 14:50 Andjelka Kovacevic (Active Galactic Nuclei Science Collaboration)

  • 14:50 - 14:55 Thuruthipilly Hareesh (Galaxies Science Collaboration)

  • 14:55 - 15:00 Stefan Schuldt (Strong Lensing Science Collaboration)

  • 15:00 - 15:05 Simona Mei (Dark Energy Science Collaboration)

  • 15:05 - 15:30 Discussion: Possible future paths and collaborations between SCs

  • 3:30pm - 4:00pm Coffee Break

  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm Rubin First Look, Communications & EPOLas Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Ranpal Gill, Clare Higgs

  • 4:00pm - 5:30pm Optimizing the data reduction pipeline to maximize LSST’s scientific returns, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Mireia Montes, Aaron Watkins

  • 7:00pm - 11:00pm Conference dinner

Fri 20 Sep

  • 9:00am - 10:00am TVS, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Vincenzo Petrecca, Andreja Gomboc, Alessandro Tramuto - Contributed talks: 12+3 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:15. 20. Superluminous Supernovae. Frédérick Poidevin

    • 9:15 - 9:30. 56. Predicting stellar mergers with LSST. Nadejda Blagorodnova

    • 9:30 - 9:45. 58. Rubin and Einstein Telescope: lessons learned from a kilonova ToO study. Nandini Hazra (remote)

    • 9:45 - 10:00. Wrap-up.

  • 9:00am - 10:00am SSSC, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Colin Orion Chandler, Dagmara Oszkiewicz - Contributed talks: 10+3 mins.

    • 9:00 - 9:15. Introduction to SSSC.

    • 9:15 - 9:28. 4. Asteroid taxonomic classification via multi-filter photometry and machine learning techniques. Agnieszka Kryszczynska

    • 9:28 - 9:41. 35. The Critical Role of 10-m Class Telescope Follow-up in the LSST era: the case of the 10.4m GTC telescope. Javier Licandro

    • 9:41 - 9:54. 38. Predicted Discoveries and Characterisations of Centaurs in the Age of LSST. Joseph Murtagh

    • 9:54 - 10:00. Wrap-up.

  • 10:00am - 10:30am Coffee Break

  • 10:30am - 12:00pm Galaxies, Las Nieves room (large), Chair(s): Sugata Kaviraj, Simona Mei, Katarzyna Malek - Contributed talks: 12+2 mins.

    • 10:30 - 10:44. 45. Tracing the intra-halo light with deep Hyper Suprime-Cam images. Lucía Paz Garate Nuñez

    • 10:44 - 10:58. 43. Measuring the intracluster light fraction using machine learning. Louisa Canepa

    • 10:58 - 11:12. 8. Characterising Tidal Features Around Galaxies in Cosmological Simulations. Aman Khalid

    • 11:12 - 11:26. 46. Galaxy merger Features concealed in The background. Luis Suelves

    • 11:26 - 11:40. 81. Probing the environmental dependence of low surface brightness galaxy properties using marked statistics. Unnikrishnan Sureshkumar (remote)

    • 11:40 - 11:54. 36. Using the low surface brightness galaxy imaging to be provided by LSST to constrain the nature of dark matter. Jorge Sanchez Almeida

    • 11:54 - 12:00. Wrap-up

  • 10:30am - 12:00pm SMWLV, Teneguía room (medium), Chair(s): Giada Pastorelli - Contributed talks: 10 + 2 mins.

    • 10:30 - 10:35. Introduction to SMWLV. Giada Pastorelli

    • 10:35 - 10:49. Early Galactic Science with LSST. Aarya Patil

    • 10:49 - 11:03. 60. Metal-poor very low-mass stars and brown dwarfs in Rubin LSST and Euclid. Nicolas Lodieu

    • 11:03 - 11:17. 55. Modeling long-period variability in evolved stars for Rubin-LSST. Michele Trabucchi

    • 11:17 - 11:31. 48. Light curve’s recovery with Rubin-LSST: II. Unveiling the darkness of the galactic bulge with RR Lyrae. Marcella Di Criscienzo

    • 11:31 - 11:45. 40. PhotoD with the LSST. Lovro Palaversa

    • 11:45 - 11:59. 44. Accelerating Stellar Photometric Distance Estimates with Neural Networks. Karlo Mrakovcic

    • 11:59 - 12:00. Wrap-up.

  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm Wrap-Up, Las Nieves room (large)

  • 12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch

  • 2:00pm - 8:30pm Excursion