Programme

Timezone: all times in the programme are CET.

* Denotes remote speakers

Day 0 - Monday, 22nd January
17:00 - 19:00   Registration and beer & brezen reception
Day 1 - Tuesday, 23rd January
08:30 Registration
09:00 Welcome & Introduction
SESSION 1 - LSST OVERVIEW
09:15 Invited Status update for the Rubin Observatory Construction Project Zeljko Ivezic, University of Washington
09:50 Invited The Vera C. Rubin Observatory International In-kind Program Aprajita Verma, University of Oxford
10:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 1  
10:30 Coffee break
SESSION 2 - ESO OVERVIEW
11:00 Invited

 

ESO facilities in the next decade

 

Bruno Leibundgut, ESO
11:25 Invited Ferdinando Patat, ESO
11:50 Invited Marina Rejkuba, ESO 
12:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 2   
12:30 Lunch
SESSION 3 - EXTRAGALACTIC SCIENCE
14:00 Contributed Lightning talks - block 3a  
14:15 Invited Extreme AGN Variability in LSST and Synergies with ESO facilities DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10581626 Matthew Temple, Universidad Diego Portales
14:40 Contributed Lightning talks - block 3b  
14:55 Invited Supernovae and extragalactic transients in the LSST era Kate Maguire, Trinity College Dublin
15:20 Contributed Lightning talks - block 3c  
15:30 Coffee break
SESSION 4 - GALACTIC SCIENCE
16:00 Invited Variable Stars in the era of Rubin's LSST DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10607352 Richard Anderson, EPFL
16:25 Invited Radially Pulsating Stars: Insights from Theoretical Framework in the Gaia and Rubin-LSST Era Giulia De Somma, INAF
16:50 Invited Population studies of accreting white dwarfs with the Vera Rubin Observatory and ESO DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10731084 Anna Francesca Pala, European Space Agency
17:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 4   
Day 2 - Wednesday, 24th January
SESSION 5 - LSST BROKERS AND SYSTEMS
09:00 Invited The ALeRCE astronomical alert broker Francisco Forster, Universidad de Chile
09:15 Invited AMPEL: LSST alerts, photometric classifications and how to build your own real-time workflow Jakob Nordin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
09:30 Invited The ANTARES Time-Domain Event Broker Gautham Narayan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
09:45 Invited BABAMUL - what do brokers dream of Matthew J.  Graham*, Caltech
10:00 Invited A community driven broker for the Rubin era DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10561436 Emille Ishida, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
10:15 Invited Lasair, the UK alert broker Roy Williams, University of Edinburgh
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Invited The Pitt-Google Community Alert Broker DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10571807 Michael Wood-Vasey, University of Pittsburgh
11:15 Invited TOMs and Telescope Networks for Time-Domain and Transient Targeting DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10561487 Tim Lister, Las Cumbres Observatory
11:30 Invited An observer’s perspective on the Astronomical Event Observatory Network (AEON) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10561434 Carrie Holt, Las Cumbres Observatory
11:45 Invited NOIRLab's Time Domain Capabilities DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10571461 Bryan Miller, Gemini Observatory/NSF's NOIRLab
12:05 Invited Power of many - BHTOM telescope network for time-domain astronomy DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10571539 Lukasz Wyrzykowski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory
12:30 Lunch
SESSION 6 - SOLAR SYSTEM AND YSO SCIENCE
14:00 Invited Small Bodies, Big Survey: Solar System Science with LSST DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10561075 Max Mahlke, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
14:25 Invited LSST's potential to study transient phenomena in small solar system bodies Jessica Agarwal, TU Braunschweig
14:50 Invited The physics of young stellar objects across the wavelength and time domains Laura Venuti*, SETI Institute
15:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 5   
15:30 Coffee break
SESSION 7 - DEI
16:00 Session introduction (Sara Bonito, Laura Inno)  
16:05 Invited Embedding DEI principles in ESO's mission DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10604239 Francesca Primas, ESO
16:25 Invited DEI @ NOIRLab and Rubin Operations DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10560664 Alysha Shugart, Rubin Observatory / NOIRLab
16:45 Panel discussion  
17:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 6  
19:30 Social dinner at Der Pschorr - Viktualienmarkt 15 - 80331 Munich
Day 3 - Thursday, 25th January
SESSION 8 - FUTURE FACILITIES & PROJECTS
09:00 Invited The new SOXS instrument for the ESO NTT: overview and status of the project Paolo D'Avanzo, INAF - Brera Astronomical Observatory
09:25 Invited The 4MOST Time Domain Extragalactic Survey (TiDES) Isobel Hook, Lancaster University
09:50 Invited The Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope (WST) and its synergies with Rubin/LSST DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10607374 Richard Anderson, EPFL
10:15 Contributed Lightning talks - block 7  
10:30 Coffee break
SESSION 9 - LESSONS FROM PAST SURVEYS
11:00 Invited Gaia Photometric Science Alerts: current status and cataclysmic variable discovery Elmé Breedt, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
11:25 Invited Lessons from ePESSTO+ for coordinated LSST follow-up Janet Ting-Wan Chen, Institute of Astronomy, National Central University
11:50 Contributed Lightning talks - block 8   
12:15 Preparation for breakout sessions, information about rooms for afternoon, etc. SOC/LOC
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Breakout sessions - discussion on ways to proceed with coordinated projects & proposals  
15:30 Coffee break
16:00

Breakout sessions - discussion on ways to proceed with coordinated projects & proposals

 

Day 4 - Friday, 26th January
SESSION 10 - VARIOUS CONTRIBUTED TALKS & PROJECTS
09:00 Contributed

SNAD: enabling discovery in the era of big data DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10637548

Maria Pruzhinskaya, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
09:15 Contributed Transient Classifiers for Fink: glimpses from  the ELAsTICC data challenge Etienne Russeil, Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont
09:30 Contributed Astro-COLIBRI: An Advanced Platform for Real-Time Multi-Messenger Astrophysics DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10567446 Fabian Schussler, IRFU, CEA Paris-Saclay
09:45 Contributed Science with the Danish 1.54m telescope in the era of LSST Christa Gall, Niels Bohr Institute, UCPH
10:00 Contributed The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10810560 Thomas Killestein, University of Turku
10:15 Contributed Bridging the Spectrum: from Optical to Radio Transients DOI:10.5281/zenodo.10604084 Iris de Ruiter*, Anton Pannekoek Institute
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Summaries of breakout discussions and conclusions of meeting  Discussion leads and SOC
12:00 End of workshop