heatherprince commented 1 year ago

DESC Science Requirements Document: The Update

Decide what to include in the DESC Science Requirements Document (SRD) update and make a plan for execution.

Location and Zoom Links

Wednesday 11am Physical room: 2246 Randall Zoom room: DESC 5: 949 2579 9346

Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning Physical room: 3246 Randall Zoom room: DESC 2: 973 3462 5376

Contacts: Heather Prince and Eric Gawiser Day/Time: Mon, Tues at 1-4pm; Weds 11-12 and 1-3; Thursday 10am-12pm

Main communication channel: #desc-requirements GitHub repo: https://github.com/LSSTDESC/Requirements DESC SRD v1: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.01669

Monday 1-4pm: overview

Tuesday 1-4pm: 1-2 Supernovae & Strong Lensing 2-3 Augur 3-4 Firecrown & supernovae

Wednesday 11-12 and 1-3: 11am-12pm Firecrown 1-2pm: clusters and covariances 2-3 or 3:30pm: 3x2pt

Thursday 10am-12pm: wrap up and make a plan

Our goals are

to obtain input from across the collaboration on the DESC SRD update,
decide what should be included in version 2,
evaluate what systematics to prioritize for the updated forecasts and error budgeting for each dark energy probe, and
determine if further code development is needed to enable these forecasts.

Deliverables:

A list of prioritized updates to the DESC SRD, together with a plan and timeline for completing them.

Please join us if you can offer any of the following:

interest in the cosmological constraints we will reach with DESC
understanding of the analysis methods and systematics for one of the dark energy probes: 3x2pt (weak lensing & galaxy clustering), galaxy clusters, supernovae, and strong lensing
interest in/familiarity with DESC codes for forecasting, covariances, likelihoods etc

mishakb commented 1 year ago

times above are in (EST)

rmandelb commented 1 year ago

I'll be happy to join tomorrow morning's session via Zoom.