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Rubin Science Assemblies

Thursday mornings at 9:00am Pacific.

Connection info: Rubin Science Assemblies Zoom link request form

Weekly virtual sessions on learning to use the Rubin data products, pipelines, and services, run by the Rubin Community Science team (CST). All are welcome; students are especially encouraged. New to Rubin? Drop in and let Rubin staff help you get started.

Format

Alternates between tutorials and drop-in office hours, with the occasional presentation.

  • Tutorial - A hands-on demonstration of data analysis in the Rubin Science Platform.
  • Drop-in office hour - Get help, ask questions, or co-work with Rubin staff and attendees.
  • Presentations - A talk, typically without a hands-on component.

Assemblies with tutorials or presentations are recorded (links below).

Schedule and recordings for 2026

  • Jan 15, drop-in office hour
  • Jan 22, presentation: The Plan for Early Science in 2026
  • Jan 29, drop-in office hour
  • Feb 5, tutorial: TBD

Past assemblies

2025

  • Jan 09, DP0 tutorial: How to join user-uploaded tables in RSP
  • Jan 23, DP0 presentation: Data Preview 0 Review: Thank You Delegates!
  • Feb 06, DP0 presentation: Looking forward to Data Preview 1
  • Feb 20, DP0 tutorial: How to use the Portal and Firefly's DS9-like functions
  • Mar 06, DP0 tutorial: How to use the ANTARES Alert Broker
  • Mar 20, DP1 prep tutorial: Dark Energy
  • Mar 27, DP1 prep tutorial: Strong Lensing
  • Apr 03, DP1 prep tutorial: Galaxies
  • Apr 10, DP1 prep tutorial: Time Domain
  • Apr 17, DP1 prep tutorial: Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Apr 24, DP1 prep tutorial: Solar System
  • May 01, DP1 prep tutorial: Stars & Milky Way
  • May 8, drop-in: Discussion and Q&A on Community Filters
  • May 15, presentation: Hyrax: A Package for Scalable ML & Unsupervised Discovery in the Rubin Era, Aritra Ghosh
  • May 29, presentation: Predictions for the Detectability of Milky Way Satellite Galaxies and Outer-Halo Star Clusters with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, Kabelo Tsiane
  • Jun 12, presentation: Citizen Science with Rubin Observatory, Clare Higgs
  • Jun 26, presentation: Get your RSP account ready for DP1
  • Jul 10, DP1 tutorial: Choose your own DP1 adventure
  • Jul 24, DP1 tutorial: Image reprocessing - source detection and forced photometry
  • Sep 18, DP1 tutorial: Galaxy photometry and shape measurements
  • Oct 2, DP1 tutorial: Cross-match to user-uploaded tables
  • Oct 16, DP1 tutorial: Astrometry and the WCS
  • Oct 30, DP1 tutorial: Stellar science with DP1
  • Nov 13, DP1 tutorial: Weak lensing with Abell 360

2022, 2023, 2024

Go to recordings of assemblies from 2022, 2023, and 2024.

Go to the Rubin Observatory YouTube playlist for all assemblies.

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