1 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 LSST Communication to Scientists - New Developments and Plans Looking Ahead Suzanne Jacoby, Communications Manager Beth Willman, LSST Deputy Director Scientific Advisory Committee November 16, 2015

2 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 Communication Tools Websites: Information and Tools Public, Project, Corporation Launched July 2015 community.lsst.org Introduced at LSST 2015 Mailing Lists Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly push; translation Social Media Facebook, Twitter, YouTube Channel Meetings Organized by LSST and others Small Staff Efficiency, automation, reuse/recycle Balance construction and communication

3 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 Website Additions of Value to Scientists Presentations added to Gallery Simulation datasets and documentation can be found at News page has links to WebCam, FB page Publications added to public website, including searchable list of Project Documents V11.0 of the LSST Stack (aka Summer 2015) is available at

4 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 Upcoming Meetings with LSST/LSSTC* November 16, 2015LSST Science Advisory Committee (SAC) Meeting, Tucson, AZSAC November 19-20, 2015LSST Observing Strategy Retreat, Tucson, AZ November 19-21, 2015Towards Science in Chile with LSSTTowards Science in Chile with LSST*, La Serena, Chile December 14-15, 2015Foreground Physical Effects on Weak Lensing Science*,Foreground Physical Effects on Weak Lensing Science*, UC Davis January 7, 2016LSST Town Hall, 227, Kissimmee, FLAAS 227 February 22-24, 2016LSST Joint Technical Meeting, Santa Cruz, CA March 7-11, 2016LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) meeting, SLAC March 8-10, nd Annual US-Chile Education Summit, ChileUS-Chile Education Summit April 11-13, 2016LSSTC Board Meeting* in Washington, DC May 24-26, 2016XLDB 2016 Conference and Workshop, SLAC June 20-24, Belgrade, Serbia June 28-July 1, 2016SPIE Astronomical Telescopes & InstrumentationSPIE Astronomical Telescopes & Instrumentation, Edinburgh, Scotland July 18-22, 2016LSST DESC meeting, at Oxford, UK August 15-19, 2016LSST 2016 Project & Science Workshop

5 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 Community Engagement - Communication Healthy communication to stakeholders outside the project is a priority − We have heard from the SAC and Science Chairs: The Project should communicate to and engage with astronomy community more − Recent Actions and Follow-up: Increased accessibility of key project information at DPS Town Hall in November 2015 AAS Town Hall in January 2016 Weekly – Anyone can subscribe exploder anyone can subscribe to [soon] Community study of Observing Strategy, with a white paper to be on arXiv [~end 2015/early 2016]

6 Scientific Advisory Committee Tucson, AZ November 16, 2015 Community Engagement – Science Ambassadors The LSST Science Ambassadors (SAs) will be a set of people who commit to keeping up-to-date with LSST activities to engage their community with LSST- related topics. SAs could keep up-to-date by reading the weekly exploder, reading a [not yet ready] updated FAQ. SAs might engage their community by meeting one visiting speaker a month, giving public talks, developing/implementing/sharing LSST-related curricula, including a few slides in their seminars and colloquia about LSST. SAs will be self-selected scientists at LSSTC member institutions, on the SAC, in Science Collaborations, and on the Project Contact Beth Willman if you are interested to