Sessions

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1	Title	Abstract	Chair	Scribe	Pre-Recorded Component?	Presenters	Zoom room	Slack channel	Duration	Date	Time

2	Director's open	Live			No	Steve K
3	Plenary 1	Pre-recorded On-Demand Plenary. Live Q&A. This plenary talk will provide an overview of construction progress over the last 12 months. It will briefly touch on the impact of Covid-19, outlining recovery plans if known at the time and provide an update on parts of the project that have been able to continue work. Additional topics include an overview on progress made on adopting our new name, activities and actions in the area of work place culture; Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; community engagement through the algorithms workshop. And finally, a summarized update on the actions taken to mitigate the impact of satellite constellations on Rubin science.	Victor & Steve		pre-recorded plenary	Victor & Tony				Monday	1
4	Plenary 2	Pre-recorded On-Demand Plenary. Live Q&A. In this plenary the Operations team will update the community on preparations for Survey Operations including serving data during pre-operations (simulated data, commissioning and science verification data), as well as an overview on data facilities and data rights. Attendees will also be updated on international In-kind partnerships, the Rubin-Euclid Derived Data Products Working Group and the Survey Cadence Optimization Committee. Finally, the team will discuss its commitment to improving Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion within the Rubin enterprise, providing information on initial actions that can be built into operations plan, including ways in which Rubin will support underserved groups in research.	Bob (and Zeljko will provide SCOC part)		pre-recorded plenary	Bob & Zeljko				Tuesday	1
5	Plenary 3	Science Collaboration Report	Federica Bianco		yes, pre-recorded contributions from the SCs	SCs				Thursday	1
6	Plenary 4	Science Keynote (Invited Speaker TBD)								Wednesday	1
7	Lightning stories 1	3x5min pre-recorded presentations	Amanda B			TBD				Tuesday	pre-1
8	Lightning stories 2	3x5min pre-recorded presentations	Amanda B			TBD				Wednesday	pre-1
9	Breakout Summaries	Breakout summaries.								Friday	3
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12	Rubin Research Bytes	We are organizing Rubin Research Byte sessions in lieu of a poster session, to be comprised of ~3 minute flash talks followed by questions. Students and postdocs are especially encouraged to participate. Registration by Fri Jul 24 is necessary to contribute a flash talk to a Rubin Research Byte session. If you answer "yes" to the question about a Byte talk in your registration form, you will be contacted at a later date to submit a title and abstract.	Pat Burchat and Federica Bianco			students			~60 min	Tue	2
13	An Introduction to the Rubin Observatory: Systems, Jargon, and Acronyms	For anyone new to the Rubin Observatory or seeking a refresher on the observatory's systems (telescope and site, camera, data management, and education and public outreach), this session will place a special emphasis on jargon and acronyms.	Melissa Graham and Jim Annis		could just be entirely pre-recorded video with no PCW session, but a Q&A might be nice	volunteer system reps (TBD)			~60 min	Monday	2
14	Rubin Commissioning and Science Validation	The Project will provide updates on the schedule, progress, and plans for science verification and validation in commissioning, and discuss these activities with the community. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Keith Bechtol and Chuck Claver			project staff, mainly			~60 min	Tue	3
15	Community Preparations for Early Science with Rubin	Science during year one is a priority for Rubin Observatory operations. In this session the Project will provide an update about options and plans for enabling early science, and community contributions are solicited regarding, e.g., survey strategy, candidate fields, and template generation. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Leanne Guy and Bob Blum		potentially	DM & Operations staff, mainly				Wed	3
16	Community Alert Brokers	The development of community brokers which will process the LSST alert stream and enable user science with alerts is well underway. In this session the Project will provide an update on the broker selection process and host a Q&A for developers and the broader user community. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Eric Bellm and Melissa Graham		potentially pre-recorded update from the project, and possibly broker developers could make short update videos as well	Eric Bellm, Broker Team Reps			~60 min	Thur	2
17	Community Evaluation of Rubin Survey Strategies	The Project survey simulations team will provide an update on Operations Simulations (OpSim) and their Metric Analysis Framework (MAF), and host a Q&A on topics related to the community's evaluation of these survey strategies. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Peter Yoachim and Lynne Jones		expressed interest in a pre-recorded presentation to leave more Q&A time	Peter, Lynne, and community members TBD			~60 min	Wed	2
18	Rubin Algorithms Workshop Follow-up: Answers to Community Questions	This session will follow-up on open issues emerging from the Rubin Observatory Algorithms Workshop in March 2020 (ls.st/law). The DM team will solicit questions from the community in advance and prepare responses, which will be presented and discussed in this session. Additional questions regarding the Data Management algorithms and pipelines are also solicited; please submit questions to DM Scientist Leanne Guy at your earliest convenience.	Leanne Guy and Colin Slater		potentially	mix of project and community presentations			~60 min	Mon	2
19	External Synergies for Rubin Community Science	A community-led series of presentations and discussions surrounding opportunities for enabling new science by combining data from Rubin and other facilities, such as Euclid (including potential derived data products shared between the Rubin and Euclid communities), the Roman Space Telescope, SPHEREx, CMB experiments, etc. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Sam Schmidt, Jeff Newman, and Tim Eifler		potentially	community members			~60 min	Thur	3
20	Stack Club	Stack Club develops tutorial notebooks for user science analyses in the Rubin Science Platform. In this session, members will present their recent work, with a focus on notebooks prepared by students of the 8-week Stack Club Course. All are welcome to attend for an update on Stack Club activities.	Alex Drlica-Wagner and Greg Madejski		probably not	Stack Club members			~60 min	Fri	2
21	Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	This session will focus on recent efforts and actionable next steps to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity within the Rubin Observatory Project, Science Collaborations, and broader user community. We aim to produce a roadmap to guide progress for each segment of the Rubin ecosystem, at whichever stage they currently find themselves. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Federica Bianco and Keith Bechtol		possibly	TBD			~60 min	Fri	1
22	Community Support for Science with Rubin Observatory	The Rubin Observatory Community Engagement Team (CET) within the System Performance department is responsible for providing support for science users of Rubin data products and services. In this session the CET will present their vision and core initiatives: providing resources for crowd-sourced problem solving and sharing documentation and tutorials; serving as an interactive interface between project and community; and coordinating expertise to respond to issues that may arise. The CET will facilitate an open discussion regarding community needs and expectations; all are encouraged to participate.	Melissa Graham and Jeff Carlin		potentially	pre-ops CET			~45-60 min	Mon	3
23	Low Surface Brightness Science and Robust Sky Estimation	The potential for low surface brightness (LSB) science to flourish with Rubin Observatory data is vast, but not without pitfalls. Traditional sky estimation techniques tend to compromise or destroy LSB light. This session will cover current and emerging techniques for estimating robust sky levels with Rubin data, highlighting successes and reviewing future challenges. Anyone with questions, suggestions for discussion topics, or who would like to contribute content to this session is encouraged to contact the SOC Chair.	Lee Kelvin and Sugata Kaviraj		Possibly	DM Staff mainly				Mon	3
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26	Education and Public Outreach: Interacting with Data in the Browser	In the past year, EPO has built many browser-based tools for directly interacting with real data. Currently, these tools have been applied specifically to the formal classroom activities we have developed. In this session, EPO will present an update on these tools and invite participants to try them for themselves. We look to brainstorm new ways we can use these tools for communicating Rubin science or for feedback on the classroom investigations themselves. This hands-on session will be responsive to the interest of the participants.	Amanda Bauer			EPO team				Thur	2
27	Building Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion into New LSSTC Programs	What if you could re-write the rules of academia? What would you change to make research more joyous for black scientists, women, and other groups that are underrepresented in STEM? LSSTC has received support from a private foundation to address just such questions as we design a suite of major new programs related to research with Rubin Observatory LSST. Please join us for a brief panel discussion about this opportunity followed by some fun, interactive activities. All are welcome.	LSSTC			LSSTC				Fri	2
28	Help Guide LSSTC's Fundraising Efforts	One of LSSTC's core activities is seeking funding from private donors and foundations for programs that enable or relate to research with Rubin Observatory LSST (such as the Data Science Fellowship Program, the Enabling Science small-grants program, and workshops with seed funding). Astronomers at our member institutions help to prioritize and shape the programs for which we seek support. During this interactive session, we want to hear what you think we should be fundraising for. The session may begin with a panel discussion about funding priorities that have been identified by some Science Collaborations. Members of all Science Collaborations are encouraged to attend.	LSSTC			LSSTC				Thur	3
29	In-Kind Proposal Workshop	Walkthrough of the Full Proposal template, how the proposals will be reviewed, and how the content of the in-kind proposals will be used downstream. To include small-group breakouts to enable peer-based learning and question generation.	Phil Marshall			Phil, Bob, Greg M			~60 min	Wed - 2	May need to offer multiple (2-3?) sessions to span the time zones and the large number of groups.
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38	Robust Sky Estimation for Low Surface Brightness Science	Separating true astrophysical light from background noise has long been an important task in the field of astronomy. As we enter an era of increasingly deep wide-area survey imaging, the potential for low surface brightness (LSB) science to flourish is vast, however, the potential pitfalls are also significant. Traditional sky estimation techniques tend to perform poorly with such data, compromising LSB light or, at worst, destroying it. In this session we discuss current and emerging techniques toward estimating robust sky levels in an era of LSB survey imaging, highlighting successes and reviewing further challenges ahead.
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