Name: SKACH Spring Meeting
Start: 2023-06-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-06-02T17:30:00+02:00
Location: University of Geneva, Geneva Observatory

SKACH Spring Meeting

from Thursday, 1 June 2023 (09:00) to Friday, 2 June 2023 (17:30)

Monday, 29 May 2023
Tuesday, 30 May 2023
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Thursday, 1 June 2023

09:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Aula
10:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Aula
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Spring Meeting - Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva)

10:20 SKACH Mid-Year Review - Carolyn Crichton

10:40 An Interactive Interferometer for Outreach - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)
11:00 SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
11:00 - 12:20
Room: Aula
Contributions

11:00 Updates on Swiss SRC prototyping activities - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

11:20 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

11:40 SKA Science Platform: Vision and Progress - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch) Arpan Das (Scientific IT & Application Support, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

12:00 SRCSC WG6: Science User Engagement - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)
12:20 SRC Discussion
SRC Discussion
12:20 - 12:50
Room: Aula

12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 13:50
Room: Aula
13:50 SKA Data Science Challenge
SKA Data Science Challenge
13:50 - 14:30
Room: Aula
Contributions

13:50 SKA Data Challenge 3: Foreground removal update from SKACH team - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

14:10 Towards more realistic radio simulations - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL) Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
14:30 Data Science & Imaging
Data Science & Imaging
14:30 - 15:50
Room: Aula
Contributions

14:30 Conditional Denoising Diffusion Reconstruction of Radio Astronomical Images - Mariia Drozdova (UNIGE)

14:50 Self-Supervised Learning for MeerKAT Images - Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

15:10 Bluebild: a next generation radio interferometric imager - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

15:30 HVOX: Scalable Interferometric Synthesis and Analysis of Spherical Sky Images - Sepand Kashani (AudioVisual Communications Laboratory (EPFL)) Joan Rue Queralt (EPFL Center for Imaging) Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)
15:50 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
15:50 - 16:10
Room: Aula
16:10 Science Enabling Tools
Science Enabling Tools
16:10 - 17:50
Room: Aula
Contributions

16:10 Simulating radio observations with KARABO - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

16:30 Simulating HI Intensity Mapping for MeerKAT/SKA Mid - Jennifer Studer

16:50 How Karabo supports Science users - Simon Felix (FHNW)

17:10 A GPU-accelerated and Python-wrapped update of the C2Ray radiative transfer code for Cosmic Reionization Simulations - Patrick Hirling (EPFL)

17:30 SKA HPC Co-design - Stefano Corda (EPFL)
17:50

17:50 - 17:55
Room: Aula

18:00 Apero
Apero
18:00 - 19:30
Room: Outside Aula
Friday, 2 June 2023
09:00 Data Science & Simulations
Data Science & Simulations
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Aula
Contributions

09:00 Sky Simulations update - Darren Reed (University of Zurich)

09:20 First results of the Phoebos Simulation - Floor van Donkelaar

09:40 Field level model for HI: mocks and applications - Andrej Obuljen

10:00 Deep learning image-to-image translation for cosmological simulations and SKA mock observations - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

10:20 Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
10:40 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Outside Aula
11:00 SKACH Science
SKACH Science
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Aula
Contributions

11:00 Radio Continuum Observations of analogues of the Sources of Cosmic Reionization - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

11:20 The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

11:40 21cm foreground removal with machine learning - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

12:00 Headline science in band 6 - Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))
12:30 AstroSignals Signals Sinergy Discussion
AstroSignals Signals Sinergy Discussion
12:30 - 13:00
Room: Aula

13:00 Lunch & Closing
Lunch & Closing
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Outside Aula

14:00 Board Members Only
Board Members Only
14:00 - 17:30
Room: Aula