DM Leadership Team Meeting 2016-01-19

Amendment waiting on signatures:

• FY16 procurement amendment

Kian-Tat Lim

Refer to topics page: DM Agenda for Joint Technical Meeting 2016-02-22 to 24

Overall theme is middleware, trying to set three parts: 2 hacking sessions, fixing issues, rapid prototyping of potential solutions; 1 session on long-standing issues. Need additional suggestions for hacking sessions.

No new information

AMCL will receive full presentations using December data, need December EV data, T/CAMs know if they are missing any information.

RECENT PAST, DEBRIEF TO BE POSTED TO DISCOURSE, LSST Project category, conference-report tag

Tim Jenness taking over DM bibliography, using ADS and local database, include any talk, poster, paper that was presented for LSST or DM, especially if travel, fees paid by LSST. Upload location for copy of talk TBD. List can be found at https://github.com/lsst-dm/dm-publications

• NSF CI Facilities Workshop 20151201 - 2, Arlington, VA Donald Petravick, Mario Juric
• Next generation VLA 20151208 - 09 Socorro Jeff Kantor (debrief posted)
• U.S. Radio Futures Conference 20151215 - 17 Chicago

• AAS 227 20160104 - 8 Kissimmee FL (LSST Town Hall 20160108, Hack Day 20160108, LSST at Job Fair 20160105) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Unknown User (nidever), Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Jonathan Sick, Unknown User (ciardi)

UPCOMING

• AMCL Meeting 20160122 Washington, DC - Jeff Kantor, Kian-Tat Lim (remote)
• NSF Status Review of LSST 20160208 - 10 plus PMCS EV verification 20150211 - 12 Tucson Jeff Kantor, Kian-Tat Lim, Mario Juric, selected T/CAMs
• 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 (Beth Willman is invited speaker; Gregory Dubois-Felsmann, Jim Bosch, Peter Melchior, likely others from IPAC)
• LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration Meeting 20160307 - 11, SLAC Jim Bosch (and likely others)
• Fluent conference at SF, CA 20160307 - 10 Unknown User (xiuqin) Trey Roby, Unknown User (zhang), Tatiana Goldina, Loi Ly
• 2^nd Annual US-Chile Education Summit 20160308 - 10, Chile
• Python in Astronomy 2016, 20160321 - 25 University of Washington Mario Juric, Tim Jenness
• IVOA Interop Meeting 2016, 20160508 - 13, Cape Town John Swinbank Unknown User (ciardi)
• Cross-correlation Spectacular with LSST: Exploring Synergies Between LSST and External Datasets to Discover Fundamental Physics, 20160523 - 25, BNL & SUNY Stony Brook
• XLDB 2016 Conference, 201605-24 - 26 SLAC Jacek Becla
• Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy VI, 20160606 - 10 Carnegie Mellon University
• .Astronomy8 20160620 - 23, Oxford

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

• SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation 20160626 - 0701 Edinburgh ( ABSTRACTS DUE  14 Dec 2015 Must be listed on centralized Confluence page) Frossie Economou, Tim Jenness, Jeff Kantor, Trey Roby
• DESC Collaboration Meeting 20160718 - 22, Oxford, UK
• LSST 2016 Project & Science Workshop 20160815 - 19 Tucson (no need to indicate attendance now)
• Hot-wiring the Transient Universe V, 20161010 - 14, Villanova, PA, John Swinbank
• ADASS XXVI, 20161016 - 20, Trieste, Italy (Talk Abstracts due:  31 May 2016)
• Astroinformatics 16, 20161019 - 25, Sorrento, Italy Jacek Becla (OC)
• IVOA Interop Meeting, 20161021 - 23, Trieste, Italy

REMINDER: 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).

Reminders:

Monthly Progress Report input due to Jeff Kantor by close of business Wednesday 20 Jan 2016 

DM Information Security Program update is due by end of January, Jeff Kantor working on information requests