This week: the Vera Rubin Observatory‘s Community Workshop, 2025. In which the program scientists (including foreign contributors/collaborators) share their current status and coming plans. This year, unlike last, the body of experts has real meat on the table. Their agenda:
https://project.lsst.org/meetings/rubin2025/program/agenda
And of that agenda, my fraction of small-body items (Rubin’s ‘Solar System Investigation’):
Monday
Plenary: Rubin Status Update
Science Advisory Committee Meeting
Michael Strauss
Data Preview 1: Data Access and Analysis
Christina Williams and Andrés Alejandro Plazas Malagón
Alerts, Brokers, and Follow-Up Systems
Bryan Miller, Eric Bellm
Rubin and Euclid Synergies
Leanne Guy, Vincenzo Petrecca
Tuesday
Plenary: LSST-DA, Lightning Stories, and Flash Talks
Early Science Program
Leanne Guy
In-kind software and data products, IDACs, and You
Steve Margheim, Knut Olsen, Sierra Villareal
-Meg Schwamb and Tim Lister Running solar system calculations at the CRO-RBI Bura HPC Center
Rubin Science Platform: Current Features and Future Roadmap
Jeff Carlin, Frossie Economou
…the week continues…