Swiss SKA Days 2023
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Europe/Zurich
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01 (UZH - University of Zurich)
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 Zürich
Joanna Jermini-Howard
(EPFL),
Jean-Paul Kneib
(EPFL)
Description
We are pleased to invite you to participate to the seventh edition of the Swiss SKA days. During this exciting 3-day event we will discuss the ambitious SKA radio-astronomy project at the forefront of advanced technology and computing.
The Square Kilometer Array Observatory (SKAO) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over one square kilometer of collecting area in South Africa and Australia. The SKA Days 2023 will discuss the Swiss interest and participation in this ambitious project.
The seventh Swiss SKA meeting will take place from 6-8 September 2023 at UZH (University of Zurich) in Zurich at the Oerlikon Campus.
ATTENTION : We have been informed that some attendees have sensitivities to strong scents. We encourage all participants to refrain from wearing perfume or cologne for this event. Thank you for your understanding.
Participants
Adrian Jarret
Adrien Saada
Alexandre Refregier
Alexey Boyarsky
Ali Mohammed
Andrej Obuljen
André Csillaghy
Angela Taylor
Anna Bonaldi
Arpan Das
Aurel Schneider
Carlo Ferrigno
Carolina Lindqvist
Carolyn Crichton
Chiheb Sakka
Chris Finlay
Christoph Witzig
Claudio Grimaldi
Conor Slater
Daniel Schaerer
Darren Reed
Davide Piras
Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu
Devin Crichton
Dominique Bovey
Douglas Potter
Edmund Humenberger
Elena Gavagnin
Elizabeth Rembelska
Emma Tolley
Erica Lastufka
Etienne Orliac
Evangelos Makris
Evelina Breschi
Federico Di Vruno
Felix Eberli
Floor van Donkelaar
Florent Mertens
Florian Cabot
Florina Ciorba
Francesca Lepori
Francesca Stocker
Frank-Peter Schilling
Gilles Cibiel
Hamsa Padmanabhan
Hariharan Krishnan
Hiroshi Imai
Hsin Cynthia Chiang
Ian Hastings
Ivana Novak
Jaiyul Yoo
Jean-guillaume Piccinali
Jean-Paul Kneib
Jennifer Studer
Jindra Gensior
Joan Rue Queralt
Joanna Jermini-Howard
Joel Bovier
John Conway
Jonathan Coles
Jozef Bucko
Kaito Kawakami
Kelley Hess
Kenda Knowles
Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro
Luca Cervigni
Lucas Marquis
Lucio Mayer
Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle
Lukas Schmidt
Manuel Stutz
Marc Audard
Maria Oreshenko
Mariia Drozdova
Mark Sargent
Mathieu Isidro
Matthieu Simeoni
Michael Gerber
Michael Schaepman
Michel Hübner
Michele Bianco
Mike Peel
Mikko Kotiranta
Miroslav Pantaleev
Miroslava Dessauges
Mohammad Azadifar
Mohammad Reza KHALVATI
Mudit Garg
Natalia Archinard
Noah Kubli
Omkar Bait
Osman Seckin Simsek
Pablo Fernandez
Pablo Llopis Sanmillan
Pascal Hitz
Paul Dyson
Paul Hurley
Pedro Capelo
Philipp Denzel
Prasenjit Saha
Rafael Garrido Haba
Raul Monsalve
Rebekka Coles-Bieri
Robert Feldmann
Rohit Sharma
Rok Roškar
Ruben Cabezon
Sebastian Keller
Sepand Kashani
Shan Mignot
Shreyam Krishna
Simon Berger
Simon Felix
Simon Frasch
Slava Voloshynovskiy
Stefan Kögl
Stefano Corda
Steven Tingay
Susanne Wampfler
Takeru Murase
Tanya Petersen
Thibaut Roger
Thomas Schildknecht
Tianyue Chen
Timothée Schaeffer
Tomasz Kacprzak
Tomoaki Oyama
Tony Mroczkowski
Tyler Bourke
Ugo Varetto
Utz-Uwe Haus
Victor Holanda Rusu
Vincent Python
Vincenzo Timmel
Viraj Nistane
Vitaliy Kinakh
Vitaliy Kinakh
Volodymyr Savchenko
Yasumasa Yamasaki
Yosuke Shibata
Yves Wiaux
Yvonne Marie-Jeanne Bemelmans
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09:30
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10:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee 30m Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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10:00
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12:20
Wednesday Morning: Opening Session (Day 1) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)-
10:00
Welcome to Swiss SKA Days 10m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Prof. Lucio Mayer (UZH) -
10:10
Switzerland’s Perspective on the SKA Radio-Astronomy Project 10m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Michael Gerber (SERI) -
10:20
Advancements within the SKACH Consortium 15m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Carolyn Crichton (EPFL) -
10:35
The SKA Observatory 9 months on from the official start of construction on site 25m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Mathieu Isidro (SKA Observatory) -
11:00
Welcome to UZH 15m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Prof. Michael Schaepman (UZH) -
11:15
Doing business with the SKAO 25m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Mr Ian Hastings (SKAO) -
11:40
KEYNOTE: The Murchison Widefield Array, Precursor for the low frequency SKA 40m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Speaker: Prof. Steven Tingay (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)
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Lunch (Group photo) 1h Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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14:10
Wednesday Afternoon: SKACH Communications Update Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Tanya Petersen (EPFL)-
13:20
The SKA Observatory’s communications strategy 25mSpeaker: Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation)
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13:45
Prior SKACH Communications Initiatives 25mSpeaker: Tanya Petersen (EPFL)
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15:35
Wednesday Afternoon: SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))-
13:20
SRC Cheat Sheet 5mSpeaker: André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))
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13:25
High Performance Radio astronomy at Pawsey: past, present and future 25mSpeaker: Ugo Varetto (CSIRO)
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13:50
SRCNet Infrastructure updates for CHSRC 20mSpeaker: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)
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14:10
SRCSC WG6: Science User Engagement 20mSpeaker: Marc Audard (University of Geneva)
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EuroScienceGateway: robust, scalable, and integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research within EOSC 15mSpeaker: Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL)
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Wednesday Afternoon: Workshop: SKAO Communications in Switzerland Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Tanya Petersen (EPFL) -
15:35
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16:05
Coffee Break & Discussion 30m Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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16:55
Wednesday Afternoon: Demo: SKACH Science Tools Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Simon Felix (FHNW)-
16:05
PMT: Power Measurement Toolkit 25mSpeaker: Dr Stefano Corda (EPFL)
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16:30
Using KARABO for SKA Science Cases 25mSpeaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)
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18:35
Wednesday Afternoon: Precursor Science Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)-
16:05
The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status 25mSpeaker: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)
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16:30
CHORD and HIRAX Instrumentation and Calibration Techniques 25mSpeaker: Hsin Cynthia Chiang (McGill University)
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16:55
FRBs as Probes of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics 25mSpeaker: Sievers Jonathan (McGill University)
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17:20
Update on MeerKAT 25mSpeaker: Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)
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17:45
The HI intensity mapping power spectrum: insights from recent measurements 25mSpeaker: Hamsa Padmanabhan
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18:10
Unveiling the Physics of the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation in the SKA era 25mSpeaker: Florent Mertens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institut)
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Wednesday Afternoon: Co-design Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)-
16:55
Co-design for the SDP: now, AA2 and beyond 25mSpeaker: Shan Mignot (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, Laboratoire Lagrange)
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17:20
SKA LOW Self-Calibration Benchmarking 25mSpeaker: Dr Stefano Corda (EPFL)
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SKA SDP Benchmark Suite 25mSpeakers: Dr Stefano Corda (EPFL), Mr Manuel Stutz (FHNW)
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Wednesday Afternoon: Observations Management and Controls Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Carolyn Crichton (EPFL)-
18:10
Cosylab Switzerland: Contribution to SKA Control System 25mSpeaker: Ivana Novak (Cosylab Switzerland)
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Wednesday Afternoon: Closing Remarks Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 ZürichConvener: Joanna Jermini-Howard (EPFL) -
18:40
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19:10
Tranport to Apero - Lake Side 30m
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19:10
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22:10
Apéro at Lake Side 3h Lake Side - Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zürich
Lake Side - Bellerivestrasse 170, 8008 Zürich
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22:10
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22:40
Return to Hotels - no transport provided 30m
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09:30
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Coffee & Networking 1h Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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10:00
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10:15
Thursday Morning: Welcome (Day 2) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 ZürichConvener: Carolyn Crichton -
10:15
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12:20
Thursday Morning: Data Science & Imaging Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)-
10:15
Learning how to clean deep and fast, with R2D2: Residual-to-Residual DNN series for high-Dynamic range imaging in radio astronomy 25mSpeaker: Prof. Yves Wiaux (Heriot-Watt Edinburgh)
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10:40
PolyCLEAN: A polyatomic CLEAN-like algorithm for sparse Bayesian imaging. 25mSpeaker: Adrian Jarret (EPFL)
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11:05
Radio-astronomical Image Reconstruction with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Model 25mSpeaker: Mariia Drozdova (UNIGE)
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11:30
HVOX: Scalable Interferometric Synthesis and Analysis of Spherical Sky Maps 25mSpeaker: Dr Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)
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11:55
Bluebild - A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager 25mSpeaker: Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)
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Thursday Morning: Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Science Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Dr Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))-
10:15
From sunspots to the birth of Earth-like planets and the earliest galaxies: status update on the SKACH band 6 white paper 15mSpeaker: Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))
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10:30
Science Motivation and Performance Update 15mSpeaker: Dr Tyler Bourke (SKA Observatory)
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10:45
Continuous frequency coverage from SKA MID to ALMA 15mSpeaker: Tony Mroczkowski (ESO)
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11:00
Astrochemistry - a key science driver for a high frequency extension of the SKA 15mSpeaker: Susanne Wampfler (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)
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11:15
Break 10m
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11:25
Ranging to deep-space missions for gravitational waves and dark matter 15mSpeaker: Prasenjit Saha (University of Zurich)
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11:40
Open Discussion 40m
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Lunch 1h Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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15:30
Thursday Afternoon: Astro Science (Part 1) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky (University of Geneva)-
13:20
Science with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory 25mSpeaker: Anna Bonaldi (SKA organization)
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13:45
Radio Continuum Observations of analogues of the Sources of Cosmic Reionization 25mSpeaker: Dr Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)
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14:10
The properties of HI discs and their evolution across cosmic time 25mSpeaker: Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)
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14:35
Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration 25mSpeaker: Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
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15:00
Why Open Science in the SKA era? 25mSpeaker: Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC))
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Thursday Afternoon: Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Instrumentation Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Stefan Kögl (KOEGL Space)-
13:20
Introduction to the Mid-band-6 Instrumentaton Workshop 5mSpeaker: Stefan Kögl (KOEGL Space)
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13:25
Design of the SKA-Mid Band 345(6) Feed-package 20mSpeaker: Angela Taylor (University of Oxford)
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13:45
A status about Swiss Elegant Breadboard for SKA MID band 6: disrupting without disturbing? 20mSpeaker: Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)
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14:05
Band-Pass Filter Design For MID-6 Receiver 20mSpeakers: Mohammad Reza KHALVATI (HES-SO/HEIG-VD), Mohammad Azadifar (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)
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Design of wideband receiver system for Mid-band 6 and investigation of the higher-order mode effect of waveguide on its beam pattern 20mSpeaker: Yasumasa Yamasaki (Osaka Metropolitan University)
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Open Discussion 45m
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Thursday Afternoon: Closing Remarks Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 ZürichConvener: Joanna Jermini-Howard (EPFL) -
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Transport to Lindt (transport provided) 1h 5m
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Lindt Tour 2h 20m Lindt Home of Chocolate, Schokoladenplatz 1 8802 Kilchberg
Lindt Home of Chocolate, Schokoladenplatz 1 8802 Kilchberg
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Return to Hotels - Transport to city center provided (to Rennweg) 20m Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 Zürich
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Coffee & Networking 1h Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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10:00
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10:15
Friday Morning: Welcome (Day 3) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 ZürichConvener: Prof. Lucio Mayer (UZH) -
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Friday Morning: Dark & Quiet Skies Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)-
10:15
Updates on the protection of the Dark and Quiet Skies 15mSpeaker: Federico Di Vruno (SKAO)
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10:30
Dark and Quiet Skies at UNCOPUOS – Sustainable Use of Outer Space 25mSpeaker: Thomas Schildknecht (University of Bern)
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10:55
The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) - Advocating for the protection of radio astronomy from harmful interference in Europe & South Africa 25mSpeaker: Susanne Wampfler (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)
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11:20
IAU CPS SatHub: assessing and mitigating the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy 25mSpeaker: Mike Peel (SatHub)
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11:45
Development of a Dark and Quiet Skies module for the Space Sustainability Rating 25mSpeakers: Mr Vincent Python, Adrien Saada (Space Sustainability Rating)
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Friday Morning: Workshop: SKA Data Science Challenge Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
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10:15
SKACH Data Science Challenge Results 20mSpeaker: Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)
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10:35
Point Source Subtraction in visibility space 20mSpeaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)
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10:55
Instrumental Systematics for SDC3A-Foregrounds 20mSpeakers: Shreyam Krishna (EPFL), Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
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11:15
Code Demonstration 25mSpeaker: Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)
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11:40
Final Discussion and Reflection 30m
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Lunch 1h Mensa BIN-1-E.07
Mensa BIN-1-E.07
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Friday Afternoon: Astro Science (Part 2) Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Convener: Prof. Daniel Schaerer (University of Geneva)- 13:10
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The robustness of machine learning for 21cm foreground removal 20mSpeaker: Tianyue Chen (EPFL)
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Field level model for HI: mocks and applications 20mSpeaker: Andrej Obuljen
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Bayesian inference from all-sky searches for radio technosignatures 20mSpeaker: Claudio Grimaldi (EPFL)
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BEoRN: a fast and flexible framework to simulate the epoch of cosmic dawn reionization 20mSpeaker: Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)
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First Observational Campaigns of the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature (MIST) 25mSpeaker: Raul Alberto Monsalve Jara (Berkeley University)
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Friday Afternoon: Data Science & Simulations Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Convener: Darren Reed (University of Zurich)-
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Deep learning domain adaption between mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations 25mSpeaker: Dr Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)
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Simulating HI Intensity Mapping for MeerKAT/SKA Mid 25mSpeaker: Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)
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Emulating Baryonic fields from cosmic to galaxy scales with Generative Deep Learning 25mSpeaker: Robert Feldmann (University of Zurich)
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Fast Simulation of Cosmological Neutral Hydrogen with a Halo model approach 25mSpeaker: Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)
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Open Discussion 25m
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Friday Afternoon: Closing Remarks Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
UZH - University of Zurich
Binzmühlestrasse 14 8050 ZürichConvener: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)
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