SKACH Spring Meeting

from Thursday, 1 June 2023 (09:00) to Friday, 2 June 2023 (17:30)
University of Geneva, Geneva Observatory (Aula )

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
1 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023
AM
09:30 --- Registration & Welcome Coffee ---
10:00
Thursday morning - Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL) (until 11:00) (Aula )
10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Spring Meeting - Prof. Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva)   (Aula )
10:15 --- Q&A ---
10:20 SKACH Mid-Year Review - Carolyn Crichton   (Aula )
10:35 --- Q&A ---
10:40 An Interactive Interferometer for Outreach - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)   (Aula )
10:55 --- Q&A ---
11:00
Thursday morning - André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW)) (until 12:20) (Aula )
11:00 Updates on Swiss SRC prototyping activities - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)   (Aula )
11:15 --- Q&A ---
11:20 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)   (Aula )
11:35 --- Q&A ---
11:40 SKA Science Platform: Vision and Progress - Arpan Das (Scientific IT & Application Support, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)   (Aula )
11:55 --- Q&A ---
12:00 SRCSC WG6: Science User Engagement - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)   (Aula )
12:15 --- Q&A ---
09:00
Friday Morning - Darren Reed (University of Zurich) (until 10:40) (Aula )
09:00 Sky Simulations update - Darren Reed (University of Zurich)   (Aula )
09:15 --- Q&A ---
09:20 First results of the Phoebos Simulation - Floor van Donkelaar   (Aula )
09:35 --- Q&A ---
09:40 Field level model for HI: mocks and applications - Andrej Obuljen   (Aula )
09:55 --- Q&A ---
10:00 Deep learning image-to-image translation for cosmological simulations and SKA mock observations - Dr Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)   (Aula )
10:15 --- Q&A ---
10:20 Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)   (Aula )
10:35 --- Q&A ---
10:40 --- Coffee Break & Discussion ---
11:00
Friday Morning -Prof. Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva) (until 12:30) (Aula )
11:00 Radio Continuum Observations of analogues of the Sources of Cosmic Reionization - Dr Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)   (Aula )
11:15 --- Q&A ---
11:20 The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)   (Aula )
11:35 --- Q&A ---
11:40 21cm foreground removal with machine learning - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)   (Aula )
11:55 --- Q&A ---
12:00 Headline science in band 6 - Dr Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))   (Aula )
12:15 --- Q&A ---
PM
12:20 --- SRC Discussion ---
12:50 --- Lunch ---
13:50
Thursday afternoon - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL) (until 14:30) (Aula )
13:50 SKA Data Challenge 3: Foreground removal update from SKACH team - Dr Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)   (Aula )
14:05 --- Q&A ---
14:10 Towards more realistic radio simulations - Chris Finlay (UNIGE) Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)   (Aula )
14:25 --- Q&A ---
14:30
Thursday afternoon - Emma Tolley (EPFL) (until 15:50) (Aula )
14:30 Conditional Denoising Diffusion Reconstruction of Radio Astronomical Images - Mariia Drozdova (UNIGE)   (Aula )
14:45 --- Q&A ---
14:50 Self-Supervised Learning for MeerKAT Images - Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)   (Aula )
15:05 --- Q&A ---
15:10 Bluebild: a next generation radio interferometric imager - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)   (Aula )
15:25 --- Q&A ---
15:30 HVOX: Scalable Interferometric Synthesis and Analysis of Spherical Sky Images - Sepand Kashani (AudioVisual Communications Laboratory (EPFL)) Dr Joan Rue Queralt (EPFL Center for Imaging) Dr Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)   (Aula )
15:45 --- Q&A ---
15:50 --- Coffee Break & Discussion ---
16:10
Thursday afternoon - Simon Felix (FHNW) (until 17:50) (Aula )
16:10 Simulating radio observations with KARABO - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)   (Aula )
16:25 --- Q&A ---
16:30 Simulating HI Intensity Mapping for MeerKAT/SKA Mid - Jennifer Studer   (Aula )
16:45 --- Q&A ---
16:50 How Karabo supports Science users - Simon Felix (FHNW)   (Aula )
17:05 --- Q&A ---
17:10 A GPU-accelerated and Python-wrapped update of the C2Ray radiative transfer code for Cosmic Reionization Simulations - Patrick Hirling (EPFL)   (Aula )
17:25 --- Q&A ---
17:30 SKA HPC Co-design - Dr Stefano Corda (EPFL)   (Aula )
17:45 --- Q&A ---
17:50
Closing remarks (until 17:55) (Aula )
18:00 --- Apero ---
12:30 --- AstroSignals Signals Sinergy Discussion ---
13:00 --- Lunch & Closing ---
14:00
Board Meeting (until 17:30) (Aula )