On July 9, 2018 the science staff will meet in the auditorium (14:00) to discuss proposals for workshops and smaller meetings to be held at STScI in 2019.

Proposers should provide basic information on their meeting below; template headings are provided that you can fill in.

You can post your presentation slides below; please do so by July 3.  They should include:

• Workshop title and proposer/PI
• What makes this topic compelling right now?
• What makes the topic compelling for STScI, our missions, and our staff?  (This is not a requirement for a workshop.)
• What similar meetings are known at this time?
• Who will be on the SOC?
• What are key subjects and potential speakers?
  
  

TESS Data Workshop  (Doing science with TESS)

Proposers

Susan Mullally and Jeff Valenti

Preferred dates (optional), with comments

2019 Feb 11-14

Presentation slides

Q & A:

• Q: How much TESS data will be released at the end of 2018 (and hence be available for workshop)?
  • A: Six "sectors" of data, which is approximately 1/4 of the sky. Thereafter, one additional sector will be released every 27 days. TESS will tile the sky with 26 sectors.
• Q: Are members of the SOC listed in the slides?  (Jeff Valenti only showed and spoke to Slide 2 at the meeting)
  • A: Yes, current SOC+LOC members are listed on slide 13. One update: Giovanni is leaving in September to work on CHEOPS, so he will not remain on the LOC. We may add 2-3 more external members before the SOC meeting next week.

Python in Astronomy Conference 2019 at STScI

Proposers:

Erik Tollerud, Josh Peek, Iva Momcheva

Preferred dates (optional), with comments

April 29 - May 3.

The workshop is typically held the first week of May but there is some flexibility.

Presentation slides

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Enabling Multi-Messenger Astrophysics in the Big Data Era

Proposer:

Gautham Narayan

Preferred dates (optional), with comments

Book-ended with 2019 Spring Symposium.
This workshop was planned together with the Spring Symposium and we feel there are many scientific and logistical advantages to running both symposium and workshop back-to-back, though both stand on their own.

Presentation slides

Link to Keynote Version (82 MB)

Q & A:

• Q: Laura Watkins: The symposium is 3.5 days while the workshops are normally 2.5 days, and the week is only 5 days, so does running both together detract from both the symposium and the workshop? + Joel Green: Is the plan 3.5 days + 2.5 days = 6 or ?
  
  
  • A: No, I don't believe so. There's clear intersection and overlap between the symposium (defines the science goals) and the workshop (start to build infrastructure and connect a disparate, patchwork ecosystem together to achieve those science goals). I feel it's beneficial to hold both back-to-back as this really connects the scientific questions with how the science can practically be accomplished with the terabyte-scale streams of alerts that we are now getting from projects like ZTF. This has not historically been the case in the transient community, and as a result, some of the standards and APIs developed in this field are disconnected from the science needs, and we have scientists who have questions that they are keen to answer but are unaware of the resources available, or need relatively simple extensions to existing infrastructure. I believe that running the workshop with the symposium will help address these disconnects.
    
    I'll also note that the symposium organizers have always been aware of the plan to run a workshop right after it, and the agenda was designed accordingly. The 3.5 day symposium agenda always included a last half-day discussion on future plans and infrastructure needs. The 2 day workshop turns that 1/2 day discussion into two hack-days with short presentations, and an emphasis on building infrastructure. A subset of the LOC is common between the symposium to make the transition smooth, and we expect that some of the participants in the workshop will also be here for the symposium. As such, the delineation between the two is artificial, and we expect productive discussions and infrastructure work to begin informally during the symposium itself. The two were designed to complement each other, and bring together people who work in the same field but have very different expertise and do not talk to each other nearly enough. This back-back scheduling also reduces the logistical burden on STScI staff while neatly still leaving three slots for other workshops (i.e. you can vote for it, and it still doesn't cost any of the other excellent proposals! ).
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Constraining Structure in the Low Density Universe

Proposer

Karl Gordon & Ravi Sankrit & Low Density Universe Group

Preferred dates (optional), with comments

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Grism Spectroscopy Workshop

Proposer: Ivelina Momcheva

Preferred dates (optional), with comments: Fall 2019

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Testing galaxy transition using observations and simulations in the era of JWST

Proposer: Kate Rowlands (JHU) & Katey Alatalo (STScI)

Preferred dates (optional), with comments: Summer 2019

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