DES Algorithms Meeting
DES Algorithms Meeting
May 10-11, 2010
LMU, Munich
Meeting Agenda and Schedule
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We will have talks in the morning and early afternoon, followed
by a discussion session next day on some focussed topics. We hope to set aside
plenty of time for discussions.
A tentative list of topics/speakers for this meeting is as follows :
* Overview of current data quality and comparison to Data Quality
Requirements (Shantanu, Bob, Joe)
* Detrending overview and photometric repeatability tests (Joe, Bob)
* Masking details
o Bright star/bleed trails/cosmic ray (Shantanu)
o Satellite trails (Nacho/Santi)
o Masking while building coadds (Bob, Joe, ?)
* Astrometric refinement with SCAMP (Emmanuel)
* Photometric calibration
o Photometric standard module (Douglas)
o Zeropoints when building coadds (Bob)
o Global photometric calibration (Douglas)
* Building PSF homogenized coadds (Emmanuel)
* Cataloging with model fitting (Emmanuel)
* Large scale structure masks (Molly)
* Weak lensing codes (Gary B)
* Discussion of high hurdles and next steps
o Dealing with deblending (Emmanuel leads discussion)
o Optimal ways of estimating galaxy colors (Huan leads discussion)
o Dealing with variations in color corrections when
building/calibrating coadds (Jim or Douglas)
o ???
A full agenda can be found here
There is no formal registration or registration fee for this meeting. If you
like to attend this meeting send an email to
Joe Mohr or/and Shantanu Desai
Wireless access will be available throughout the meeting.
Here is the list of confirmed attendees.
The meeting will take place in one of the seminar rooms at
Universitaets-Sternwarte Muenchen, Scheinerstrasse in Muenchen.
The university is about a 15 minute bus ride from Hotel Occam
on Bus 54, when you catch in Muenchner Freiheit. Muenchner
Freiheit is conveniently located three blocks from Hotel Occam next to Muenchen Freihart
subway station. The bus stop for USM is "Galileiplatz". One way fare is 2 euro 40 cents.
Detailed maps shall soon be posted.
We have reserved blocks of rooms at special group rates at
Hotel Occam
whose address is as follows
Occamstrasse 7
80802 Munich
Please let Uta Leguay know of your dates of arrival/departure in
Munich and she will take care of your hotel bookings. Instructions on how to reach the hotel from the airport
can be found here. One way
fare from the airport is about 9.60 Euros. A taxi costs about 40 euros. More instructions from Joe are
available here . See also this link for everythng you wanted to know
about Munich subway.
The conference dinner will take place on Monday at
7:00 pm at Altes Hackerhaus
Altes Hackerhaus
Sendlinger Strasse 14
80331 Munchen
Tel. 2605026
Local Organizing Committee
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- Joe Mohr
- Shantanu Desai
- Uta LeGuay
- Bob Armstrong
- Gurvan Bazin
- Alfredo Zenteno