Research Inclusion Group

The Rubin Research Inclusion Group is actively promoting diversity, equity, inclusion, and access across the broad Rubin community in the following ways.

Presence at conferences.

The group helps organize Rubin's participation at international conferences, to enable personal contact with potential new members of the Rubin community.

Identifying a cohort of researchers at small and underserved institutes.

The group reaches out individually via email to initiate contact and invite further communication with faculty at small and underserved institutes who are interested in engaging in Rubin-related research.

One-on-one support and engagement.

Virtual one-on-one meetings between Rubin staff and community members of this cohort are arranged to provide dedicated time for individual Q&A, and to identify further opportunities for custom support.

Custom virtual seminars for Data Preview 0.

A common request from the cohort is for undergraduate-level custom seminars, or tutorials that provide an accelerated learning experience with the DP0 data set for summer students. Find out more about requesting a custom DP0 seminar.

Financial support for travel to the Rubin Community Workshop (RCW).

Rubin Observatory has been able to provide financial support to a limited number of cohort members to enable their participation in-person at the annual RCW.

Collaboration

The group is working to provide other forms of support in collaboration with the LSST Discovery Alliance.

Research Inclusion Group Members

The Rubin Research Inclusion group includes representatives from across the Rubin community. The group meets monthly to discuss, coordinate, and support research inclusion initiatives.