DM Leadership Team Meeting 2015-12-07

Amendment executed:

• IPAC
• Princeton
• SLAC

Amendment drafted, out for signature:

• UW
• NCSA
• UC Davis

Amendment sent for review:

• FIU

Amendment in work:

• FY16 procurement amendment

Jeff Kantor

Kevin Long imported to PMCS, linked Milestones to activities. Kevin Long and Jeff Kantor produced pdf files for review, due 15 Dec 2015 .

As of today, a few changes have been submitted by T/CAMs. Submit changes in December for January baseline.

Jeff Kantor

Gregory Dubois-Felsmann

Resumed meetings covering LHN Network Operations and Management and End-to-End Testing. Starting work on LCR to align International and US links plan in PMCS to latest contract developments.

LCR in work for LSE-78, waiting on edits to align with Camera requests.

RECENT PAST, DEBRIEF TO BE POSTED TO DISCOURSE:

• NSF CI Facilities Workshop 20151201 - 2, Arlington, VA Donald Petravick, Mario Juric

UPCOMING:

• Next generation VLA 20151208 - 09 Socorro Jeff Kantor
• 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
• Essential Cosmology for Next Generation 20160110-16 Iberostar Tucan/Quetzal, Cancun
• NSF Status Review of LSST 201602?? Tucson Jeff Kantor
• LSST Joint Technical Meeting 20160222 - 24, Santa Cruz, CA (All, registration is open https://project.lsst.org/meetings/jtm2016/)
• 2^nd Annual US-Chile Education Summit 20160308 - 10, Chile
• Python in Astronomy 2016, 20160321 - 25 University of Washington Mario Juric, Jonathan Sick (pending approval by organizers)
• XLDB 2016 Conference and Workshop 201605-24 - 26 SLAC Jacek Becla
• Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, 20160606 - 10 Carnegie Mellon University
• .Astronomy8 20160620 - 23, Oxford Jonathan Sick?

• LSST@Europe2 conference 20160620 - 24 Belgrade, Serbia Mario Juric, Unknown User (ciardi)

• SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 20160626 - 0701 Edinburgh ( ABSTRACTS DUE  14 Dec 2015  Must be listed on centralized Confluence page) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness
• 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 with science content), post in Interactions Database on project.lsst.org for any outside communications/papers/presentations that have programmatic information (scope, budget, schedule of MREFC project).

Reminder: Expect early request for Monthly Progress Report inputs due to Christmas holiday season 14 Dec 2015 

Kian-Tat Lim and Jeff Kantor informed Victor Krabbendam DM would probably not send entire team to JTM Santa Cruz. Victor Krabbendam trying to organize agenda to have some days relevant to entire project. Travel requests temporarily on hold for people not on DMLT or directly involved in inter-subsystems work until further guidance this week.

Unknown User (nidever) requests acceleration of certain processing middleware "fixes", e.g. more granular logging, workflow. Kian-Tat Lim says would have to prioritize over other tasks currently planned, since we don't have full staff.

DM Information Security Program update is due by end of January. Request coming for T/CAMs to review current plans. Donald Petravick and others will be contacting with specific requests.