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

More information, including the full schedule, the registration form, and the sprint proposal form, is available to DESC members on Confluence and to host-institution members via the institutional Slack channels below:

2025 DESC Sprint Week at Princeton
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2025 DESC Sprint Week at Cambridge
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Schedule

Overview

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 satellite site will be hosted by the Institute of Astronomy (IoA) and Kavli Institute for Cosmology (KICC), with some days on the IoA’s Madingley Road site, and some days hosted at the nearby Postdoc Academy (PdA) in Eddington. Support for this site has been provided by the hosts and LSST:UK. We acknowledge support provided by STFC for UK participation in LSST through grant ST/X001334/1, and are grateful for the support of the Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge, which is sponsoring this event. 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 in the #desc-hack-sprint and #desc-sprint-hotline Slack channels in the LSST Discovery Alliance workspace, or in the host-institution channels, #desc-sprint2025-princeton (Princeton) and #desc-sprint2025-cambridge (Cambridge).