Name: LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2013-12-04T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2013-12-06T18:00:00-05:00
Location: University of Pittsburgh

LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration Meeting

from Wednesday, 4 December 2013 (08:00) to Friday, 6 December 2013 (18:00)

Monday, 2 December 2013
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Wednesday, 4 December 2013

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Ballroom B Foyer
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: 419 Allen Hall
Contributions

09:30 Task H-2--cluster lensing simulations - Ian Dell'Antonio (Brown)
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Gold Room
Current Mocks
Current Mocks
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Conf. Room B
Contributions

09:30 Building mock catalogs using machine learning techniques - Shirley Ho

09:50 Simulated Galaxy Catalogs - Risa Wechsler

10:10 SUNGLASS - Alina Kiessling

10:30 ABC mock catalogs - Salman Habib
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Ivy Room
Contributions

09:30 Welcome - Jeff Newman

09:35 Photo-z PDF multi-technique estimation, storage and applications - Matias Carrasco-Kind

09:55 The Likelihood Ratio Method - Jean-Stephane Ricol

10:10 Filter shape effects in photo-z estimation - Adeline Choyer

10:25 Discussion
09:30 - 10:50
Room: 319 Allen Hall
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

09:30 Recent Progress in Non-Canonical WL Statistics - Morgan May

09:55 Can we use galaxies to improve our knowledge of the PSF? - Debbie Bard

10:20 Data management updates - Jim Bosch
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10

11:10

11:10 - 12:30
Room: 419 Allen Hall

11:10 - 12:30
Room: Gold Room
Mock Reqs.
Mock Reqs.
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Conf. Room B
Contributions

11:10 Validation - Joanne Cohn

11:30 ImSim Inputs - Simon Krughoff

11:50 Working Group Requests - Debbie Bard
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ivy Room
Contributions

11:10 Summary of current simulation tools - Alex Abate Sam Schimdt

11:20 Simulations - Eda Gjergo

11:40 Microtasking - Carlos Cunha Jeff Newman
11:10 - 12:30
Room: 319 Allen Hall
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

11:10 More about using the wavefront information - Michael Schneider

11:40 Bayesian Shear Estimation with the Bernstein-Armstrong method - Erin Sheldon

12:10 Update on GREAT3 and its relevance for LSST DESC - Rachel Mandelbaum
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 2nd floor lobby
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: 419 Allen Hall
Contributions

13:30 Current status of simulations
ImSim Hands-On
ImSim Hands-On
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Conf. Room B
Contributions

13:30 CatSim/PhoSim - Debbie Bard
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Ivy Room

13:30 - 15:00
Room: 319 Allen Hall
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Gold Room
Contributions

13:30 Combining photometric surveys with spectroscopic ones - Sarah Bridle

13:40 Magnification estimator - Michael Schneider

14:00 Updates from members

14:15 Discussion on software tools

14:35 Discussion on combining probes
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

13:30 N_eff estimate from comparison of ground / space data - Will Dawson

14:10 Update on studies of chromatic effects on weak lensing - Josh Meyers
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 17:30
Room: 419 Allen Hall
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Gold Room
Contributions

15:30 Survey Depth and Randoms - Eduardo Rozo (KIPAC)

15:45 Mode-projection Tests for LSST - Anthony Pullen (JPL)

16:00 Machine Learning, Systematics, and LSS - Matias Carrasco-Kind (Illinois)

16:15 Probing the Early Universe using Large Scale Structure - Nishant Agarwal (CMU)

16:30 Fast, Accurate Galaxy Power Spectra with Cosmic Emulation - Juliana Kwan (Argonne)

16:45 Big Dithers are Crucial for LSST Survey Uniformity - Eric Gawiser (Rutgers)
15:30 - 17:30
Room: 319 Allen Hall
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

15:30 Update on deblending studies - David Kirkby

16:00 To shoot or not to shoot. In-depth comparison between RTM and FTM - James Jee
16:00 Microtasking
Microtasking
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Conf. Room B
Contributions

16:00 Illinois

16:01 Arizona
16:30 With photo-z
With photo-z
16:30 - 17:30
Room: Conf. Room B
Contributions

16:30 Photo-zs' needs: short and long term - Carlos Cunha

16:40 Impact of SED uncertainty in cosmological constraints - Sam Schimdt

16:55 Simulations: present and future - Katrin Heitmann
16:30 - 18:30
Room: Ivy Room
Thursday, 5 December 2013

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Ballroom B foyer
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

09:30 Welcome from U. Pittsburgh

09:35 Welcome from CMU

09:40 Practical information

09:45 State of the Collaboration - B Jain

09:55 Proposed Governance Plan and Membership Policy; Timeline for Future Elections - F Gilman P Burchat

10:15 Governance: Open Time for Feedback - P Burchat

10:35 Computing resources & models - R Dubois
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

11:10 Software Framework - S Dodelson

11:30 Highlight Projects: Computing

11:40 Highlight Projects: Analysis - J Newman

12:25 Parallel Plans
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 2nd floor lobby
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Gold Room
Contributions

13:30 Intrinsic alignment simulations - Michael Schneider

13:50 Intrinsic alignments in hydro simulations - Ananth Tenneti

14:10 Self-calibrating the intrinsic alignment signal: methods for indirect measurement - Michael Troxel

14:30 Intrinsic alignments observations with SDSS-III - Sukhdeep Singh
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Ivy Room

13:30 - 15:00
Room: Conference Room B
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Conference Room A
Contributions

13:30 Photo-z simulations - Eda Gjergo

13:40 Photo-z simulations - A Abate

13:50 Simulations Discussion - A Abate

14:10 Synergies Discussion - Michael Wood-Vasey
15:00 Coffee
Coffee
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Cross software working group meeting/user center
Cross software working group meeting/user center
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Conference Room A
Contributions

15:30 ImSim on Demand Concept

15:45 PanDA status

15:55 LSST & DES data

16:10 OpsSim

16:25 CatSim & DM

16:35 Mission Computing at NERSC
PhoSim Power Users
PhoSim Power Users
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Gold Room
Contributions

15:30 Features of PhoSim You Might Not Know - Wei Cui

15:50 Validation and Predictions of Chromatic Effects in PhoSim - Josh Myers

16:10 Star/Galaxy Separation and the PhoSim Recipe Book - Debbie Bard

16:30 Atmosphere Model Exploration - Michael Schneider

16:50 What do we miss when we ray-trace? - James Jee

17:10 Validation of Sensor Features in PhoSim - Andrei Nomerotski
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Ivy Room
Modified Gravity
Modified Gravity
15:30 - 17:00
Room: Conference Room B
Contributions

15:30 Gravity on Cosmic Scales and LSST - Eric Linder

16:00 Effect of massive neutrinos and dynamical dark energy on large scale structure - Rahul Biswas

16:30 Discussion on modified gravity requirements for simulations
18:00 Banquet
Banquet
18:00 - 21:00
Room: Ballroom B
Friday, 6 December 2013

08:30 Breakfast
Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30
Room: Ballroom B foyer
09:30
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Ivy Room
Contributions

09:30 Katrin Heitmann: State of the Art with N-Body

09:50 Andrew Zentner: Baryonic Effects on Dark Energy Constraints from Lensing & Mitigation Strategies

10:10 Tim Eifler: Mitigating Baryonic Effects using Principal Component Analysis

10:30 Discussion
CatSim -> PhoSim -> DM Stack hands-on demonstration
CatSim -> PhoSim -> DM Stack hands-on demonstration
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

09:30 Videos from Simon Krughoff, text from Debbie Bard - S Krughoff
With photo-z: Cross-correlations, magnification, etc.
With photo-z: Cross-correlations, magnification, etc.
09:30 - 10:50
Room: Conference Room B
Contributions

09:30 Dan Matthews: The cross-correlation technique and lensing magnification

09:50 Mubdi Rahman: Unleashing the power of clustering redshifts

10:00 Sam Schmidt: The CIB from Planck using cross-correlations

10:10 Anthony Pullen: Interloper bias in emission line surveys
10:50 Coffee
Coffee
10:50 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ballroom B
Contributions

11:10 Cosmology Dependent Covariances with Cosmic Emulators - Juliana Kwan (ANL)

11:30 Dynamics Driving non-Gaussian Covariance & ALPT Mocks - Mark Neyrinck (JHU)

11:50 How many simulations do we need to generate covariance matrices for LSST? - Kiessling Alina (JPL)

12:10 Cosmology-dependent covariances - Michael Schneider (LLNL)
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Conference Room B

11:10 - 12:30
Room: Ivy Room

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: 2nd floor lobby
13:30
13:30 - 14:55
Room: Conference Room A
Contributions

13:30 Governance Comments - B Jain

13:35 Governance vote - R Pain

13:45 Report from Workshop on Precision Astronomy with Fully Depleted CCDs - A Nomerotski

14:00 Updates on DM, PhoSim, and Catsim - S Krughoff

14:15 Updates on OpSim - S Ridgeway

14:25 Update on CosmoSims & WG report - K Heitmann

14:40 Weak Lensing report

14:45 Theory / Joint Probes Report

14:50 Supernovae Report
14:55 Coffee
Coffee
14:55 - 15:10
15:10
15:10 - 16:30
Room: Conference Room A
Contributions

15:10 Strong Lensing Report

15:15 Photo-z Report

15:20 LSS Report

15:25 Clusters Report

15:30 Updates from the Technical Coordinator - C Stubbs

15:45 Report of the LSST Director / FDR Feedback - S Kahn

16:05 Closing