A focused, sprint-style meeting for the LSST DESC Forecasting and Intrinsic Alignments (IA) groups. Forecasting here means building and running pipelines that predict science performance from upcoming Rubin/LSST data, quantify systematic impacts, and guide analysis choices. Intrinsic alignments are correlated galaxy shapes caused by large-scale tidal fields; they bias weak-lensing measurements if not modeled. Together we'll harden forecasting workflows, integrate and test IA models, run end-to-end mocks, and prepare comparison notebooks and a short-term roadmap feeding directly into the CAROLINA workshop the following week.
