2025 DESC Sprint Week at Princeton and Cambridge (multi-site and hybrid)

More information, including the full schedule, the registration form, and sprint proposal form are available in Confluence.

Schedule

Overview

• Monday 11/3 - Sprint Pitches, Sprints
• Tuesday 11/4 - Sprints
• Wednesday 11/5 - Sprints
• Thursday 11/6 - Sprints
• Friday 11/7 - Sprint Closeouts

Local Organizing Committee (Princeton)

Erfan Nourbakhsh (Chair)
Alexandra Amon
Angela Lewis
Jamie McCullough
Justin Myles
Stephanie Reif
Masaya Yamamoto

Local Organizing Committee (Cambridge)

Hiranya Peiris (Co-Chair)
Stephen Thorp (Co-Chair)
Joanna Carruthers
Matt Grayling
Anik Halder
Erin Hayes
Madalina Tudorache

DESC Sprint Coordinators

Arun Kannawadi (Duke)
Erwin Lau (Nara Women’s University, Japan)

Location

Princeton University (US)

Princeton University at the Lewis Science Library. An interactive map of Princeton campus is available here.

University of Cambridge (UK)

The sprint will be hosted by the Institute of Astronomy (IoA), with some days on the IoA’s Madingley Road site, and some days hosted at the nearby Postdoc Academy (PdA) in Eddington. An interactive map of Cambridge is available here.

Registration

The deadline for in-person registration is October 21, 2025, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. Registration is open to DESC members and members of the host institutions.

This will be a hybrid meeting: opening and closing sessions can be attended via Zoom, and Zoom rooms will be available for remote sprints or participation in sprints with in-person attendees. Remote attendees must register by October 31, 2025, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

All participants are required to agree to abide by the DESC Meeting Code of Conduct.

Contact us

Please post questions on the #desc-hack-sprint and #desc-sprint-hotline Slack channels in the LSST Discovery Alliance workspace.