Speaker
Description
The LSST Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) Science Collaboration (SC), currently composed of 230 members spanning the globe (with about 18 UK members), aims to lead many of the large-scale LSST investigations of growing supermassive black holes in AGNs. I will briefly summarize the membership and organization of the AGN SC. I will then highlight its recent and ongoing activities, including gathering and analyzing preparatory data sets (e.g., in the Deep-Drilling Fields) to allow strong early science, contributing to survey cadence optimization, forecasting science results with simulations, serving on key working groups, and performing outreach to the scientific community and general public. I will emphasize the AGN SC's early science plans and describe how interested members of the UK, European, and worldwide astronomical community can become involved.
