DM Leadership Team Meeting 2015-11-23

Per Victor Krabbendam

The following dates have been identified as good windows to hold the 3-day NSF Status Review:

February 8, 9, 10, 2016 &

February 15, 16, 17, 2016

We do not have a charge but we expect that the PMCS and associated EVM processes will be a key focus. There will be general technical status too but the discussions with the NSF about the review have centered on drill downs in the PMCS.

Given the topics, the current key participants are:   

Kahn, Willman, Krabbendam, Calabrese, Gessner, Long, Angeli, Claver, Kantor, K-T, Gressler, Jacoby, Kurita (1 day or virtual), Selvy, Richardson (CAS Manager and expected to be key participant for PMCS drilldown). Please indicate if you would be available for the proposed dates in Tucson. 

This is not an exhaustive list but the minimum expected for in-person participation. As the charge and agenda develop there may be others identified for presentations. Zeljko and subsystem scientists participation is also welcome but optional.  Remote connections will be supported and would be a good method to participate. 

Jeff Kantor

Based on last T/CAM focus meeting, we determined that the "official" risk register would be maintained by Kian-Tat Lim, Mario Juric, Jeff Kantor, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann as before we got the T/CAMs involved. The T/CAMs and Kian-Tat Lim, Jeff Kantor, Mario Juric will come up with a lower level, cycle-focused risk vehicle as necessary. Occasionally, we expect risk to "bubble up" from the lower level to the "official" risk register.

DONE/DEBRIEF:

• IVOA Interop 20151030 - 1101 Sydney Australia Unknown User (ciardi)
• K2 SciCon 20151102 - Santa Barbara, CA Unknown User (ciardi)
• 47th DPS Annual Meeting (LSST Workshop 2015112, Survey and Solar System Science), 20151108-13, National Harbor, MD Mario Juric
• Future Challenges in Shear Estimation, 20151109-11, Philadelphia, PA Jim Bosch
• National Academy of Sciences, Physics and Astronomy Board, 20151110, Irvine CA Frossie Economou
• Supercomputing15 20151115 - 20 Austin, TX Unknown User (jalt), Donald Petravick (maybe)
• MPS Open Data Workshop #1: Gauging the Impact of Requirements for Public Access to Data Produced by NSF-funded Research 20151119-20, Arlington, VA Mario Juric
• LSST observing strategy retreat 20151119-20 Tucson (no DM attendees)

UPCOMING:

• NSF CI Facilities Workshop 20151201 - 2, Arlington, VA Donald Petravick, Mario Juric
• NSF Status Review of LSST 20151203 - 04 Online/Tucson Jeff Kantor
• Foreground Physical Effects on LSST Weak Lensing Science, 20151214-15, Davis, CA Jim Bosch, Gregory Dubois-Felsmann
• U.S. Radio Futures Conference 20151215 - 17 Chicago
• AAS 227 20160104 - 8 Kissimmee FL (LSST Town Hall 20150108, Hack Day 20160108, LSST at Job Fair 20160105) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Unknown User (nidever), Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Jonathan Sick
• Python in Astronomy 2016, 20160321 - 25 University of Washington Mario Juric, Jonathan Sick (pending approval by organizers)
• Essential Cosmology for Next Generation 20160110-16 Iberostar Tucan/Quetzal, Cancun
• LSST Joint Technical Meeting 20160222 - 24, Santa Cruz, CA (All, registration is open https://project.lsst.org/meetings/jtm2016/)
• Community Astrophysics with WFIRST: Guest Observer and Archival Science 20160229-0302, Pasadena, CA
• 2^nd Annual US-Chile Education Summit 20160308 - 10, Chile
• XLDB 2016 Conference and Workshop 201605-24 - 26 SLAC Jacek Becla
• Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, 20160606 - 10 Carnegie Mellon University
• .Astronomy 8, 20160620 - 23, Oxford, UK Jonathan Sick?

• LSST@Europe2 conference 20160620 - 24 Belgrade, Serbia

• SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 20160626 - 0701 Edinburgh ( ABSTRACTS DUE  14 Dec 2015  )
• LSST 2016 Project & Science Workshop 20160815 - 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 information (scope, budget, schedule of MREFC project).