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Goals
  • Weekly coordination meeting to discuss and resolve management items, project communications, external contacts, etc.

Discussion items

 

Item
Who
Notes

W16 Plan

Jeff Kantor

W16 epics imported to PMCS, meeting 20150929 9am PT with T/CAMs and Kevin Long to validate schedule and resource loading

FY16 Budgets
Jeff Kantor
FY16 contract amendments, Letters of Authorization to Proceed in work, should have letters out before 9/30/15 and draft amendments out this week.
PST Debrief

Mario Juric

New PST meeting format, once per quarter, longer working meetings, make them more productive per trip. This meeting was 2 days long.  Robert Lupton and Mario Juric presented on hybrid focal plane, little impact except on image differencing and templates. Different responses in u-band. Need different templates, built more often, still okay to have hybrid, but prefer homogeneous. No DM actions yet. Steve Ritz working on document, ultimately an LCR will be prepared.

Also discussed retention of data releases on disk in operations (all, not just last 2 releases). Unknown User (jalt), Kian-Tat Lim started analyzing cost impact with sizing model, ticket is in. Jacek Becla says may change value of shared scans. Robert Lupton volume of data on disk is what is important, SDSS (Szalay) experience is that access of older releases is occasional, e.g. when need to reproduce a paper. Kian-Tat Lim says there will probably be several cadences, fast, medium, slow.

According to Victor Krabbendam:

Good PST meeting last week. Some key discussions included:

  • Progress continues with System wide parameters database : George will be working on a Project-wide SE workshop to coordinate between subsystems
  • Plans are being made to do an update to the SRD: all changes are expected to be clarifications
  • Report on hybrid focal plane is forthcoming will focus on  preference for single-vendor focal plane, but hybrid focal plane is acceptable.
  • Discussion of filter performance measurements seemed to stay an open issue but lots of good discussion about all of calibration
  • There was more but I will look at minutes this week to see what is necessary to pass along.
Boot CampKian-Tat Lim

Dates changed to October 5 - 7, Kian-Tat Lim published revised agenda, logistics:

https://community.lsst.org/t/dm-boot-camp-announcement/249?u=ktl

DMLT wil be pushed up to 8:30am PT next week.

Upcoming conferencesJeff Kantor
  • Worldwide Telescope Workshop, 20150928 UA

  • Astro Hack Week 2015 Edition 20150928 - 1002 New York University

  • AstroInformatics 2015 20151005 - 09 Dubrovnik
  • National Data Service Workshop 20151019 - 21 San Diego Supercomputing Center
  • Society of Women Engineers Annual Meeting 20151022 - 24 Nashville
  • ADASS XXV 20151025 - 29 Sydney, Australia Tim Jenness, Unknown User (xiuqin), Unknown User (ciardi), Mario Juric
  • IVOA Interop 20151030 - 1101 Sydney Australia Unknown User (ciardi)
  • DPS 47 20151108-13 Washington, DC (LSST Workshop Survey and Solar System Science)
  • Supercomputing15 20151115 - 20 Austin, TX Jason Alt, Don (maybe)
  • Gauging the Impact of Requirements for Public Access to Data Produced by NSF-funded Research 2015119-20 Arlington, VA
  • LSST observing strategy retreat 20151119-20 Tucson
  • NSF CI Facilities Workshop 20151201 - 2, Arlington, VA Donald Petravick, Mario Juric
  • U.S. Radio Futures Conference 20151215 - 17 Chicago
  • AAS 227 20160104 - 8 Kissimmee FL (LSST Town Hall) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness
  • AstroPy 2016 20160321 - 25 University of Washington Mario Juric
  • Essential Cosmology for Next Generation 20160110-16 Iberostar Tucan/Quetzal, Cancun
  • XLDB 2016 Conference and Workshop 201605-24 - 26 SLAC Jacek Becla
  • Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, 20160606 - 10 Carnegie Mellon University
  • SPIE Telescopes and Optics 20160626 - 0701 Edinburgh
  • LSST 2016 20150815 - 19 Tucson (no need to indicate attendance now)

IMPORTANT: Need to get prior approval with publications board (not oral presentations or posters, only papers), post in Interactions Database on project.lsst.org for any outside communications/papers/presentations that have programmatic .

MiscellaneousJeff Kantor

Future meetings will be limited to 30 minutes. No walk-on items, send agenda items to Jeff Kantor by Friday before.

Reminder: T/CAMs need to provide variance narratives for August in eCAM tool  

Reminder: Risk Register Inputs were due  

Reminder: Got pointers to institutional procurement policies for auditors, forwarded to business office.

NSF Annual Status Review of LSST will be videocon on  -  

Other businessJeff KantorSimon Krughoff knows via Rachel Bean that DESC is working on roadmap, has data challenges, wanted to know about synchronizing data challenges with DM plans. Kian-Tat Lim discussed with Rachel Bean what datasets we plan to use for verification. Unknown User (nidever) is/should be in contact. Rachel Bean is supposed to give Kian-Tat Lim access to DESC roadmap. Frossie Economou says most SQuaRE tests are more limited, do not need full-blown data challenge. Gregory Dubois-Felsmann there are workflow, tool-chain validation reasons to do data challenges. Robert Lupton data challenges also show what you need to do to validate the data. Kian-Tat Lim is the "official" voice of DM in this area.

 Action items