Name: Swiss SKA Days 2023
Start: 2023-09-06T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-08T17:05:00+02:00
Location: UZH - University of Zurich

Swiss SKA Days 2023

from Wednesday, September 6, 2023 (9:00 AM) to Friday, September 8, 2023 (5:05 PM)

Monday, September 4, 2023
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

9:30 AM Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
10:00 AM Opening Session (Day 1)
Opening Session (Day 1)
10:00 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

10:00 AM Welcome to Swiss SKA Days - Lucio Mayer (UZH)

10:10 AM Switzerland’s Perspective on the SKA Radio-Astronomy Project - Michael Gerber (SERI)

10:20 AM Advancements within the SKACH Consortium - Carolyn Crichton (EPFL)

10:35 AM The SKA Observatory 9 months on from the official start of construction on site - Mathieu Isidro (SKA Observatory)

11:00 AM Welcome to UZH - Michael Schaepman (UZH)

11:15 AM Doing business with the SKAO - Ian Hastings (SKAO)

11:40 AM KEYNOTE: The Murchison Widefield Array, Precursor for the low frequency SKA - Steven Tingay (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)
12:20 PM Lunch (Group photo)
Lunch (Group photo)
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
1:20 PM SKACH Communications Update
SKACH Communications Update
1:20 PM - 2:10 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

1:20 PM The SKA Observatory’s communications strategy - Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation)

1:45 PM Prior SKACH Communications Initiatives - Tanya Petersen (EPFL)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
1:20 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

1:20 PM SRC Cheat Sheet - André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

1:25 PM High Performance Radio astronomy at Pawsey: past, present and future - Ugo Varetto (CSIRO)

1:50 PM SRCNet Infrastructure updates for CHSRC - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

2:10 PM SRCSC WG6: Science User Engagement - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)

2:30 PM Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

2:50 PM Renku: a platform for sustainable data science - Rok Roškar (ETHZ)

3:05 PM EuroScienceGateway: robust, scalable, and integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research within EOSC - Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL)

3:20 PM Astro-Ordas - Carlo Ferrigno (UniGe)
2:10 PM Workshop: SKAO Communications in Switzerland
Workshop: SKAO Communications in Switzerland
2:10 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02

3:35 PM Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
3:35 PM - 4:05 PM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
4:05 PM Demo: SKACH Science Tools
Demo: SKACH Science Tools
4:05 PM - 4:55 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

4:05 PM PMT: Power Measurement Toolkit - Stefano Corda (EPFL)

4:30 PM Using KARABO for SKA Science Cases - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)
Precursor Science
Precursor Science
4:05 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

4:05 PM The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

4:30 PM CHORD and HIRAX Instrumentation and Calibration Techniques - Hsin Cynthia Chiang (McGill University)

4:55 PM FRBs as Probes of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics - Sievers Jonathan (McGill University)

5:20 PM Update on MeerKAT - Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

5:45 PM The HI intensity mapping power spectrum: insights from recent measurements - Hamsa Padmanabhan

6:10 PM Unveiling the Physics of the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation in the SKA era - Florent Mertens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institut)
4:55 PM Co-design
Co-design
4:55 PM - 6:10 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

4:55 PM Co-design for the SDP: now, AA2 and beyond - Shan Mignot (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, Laboratoire Lagrange)

5:20 PM SKA LOW Self-Calibration Benchmarking - Stefano Corda (EPFL)

5:45 PM SKA SDP Benchmark Suite - Stefano Corda (EPFL) Manuel Stutz (FHNW)
6:10 PM Observations Management and Controls
Observations Management and Controls
6:10 PM - 6:35 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

6:10 PM Cosylab Switzerland: Contribution to SKA Control System - Ivana Novak (Cosylab Switzerland)
6:35 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
6:35 PM - 6:40 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01

6:40 PM Tranport to Apero - Lake Side
Tranport to Apero - Lake Side
6:40 PM - 7:10 PM

7:10 PM Apéro at Lake Side
Apéro at Lake Side
7:10 PM - 10:10 PM

10:10 PM Return to Hotels - no transport provided
Return to Hotels - no transport provided
10:10 PM - 10:40 PM
Thursday, September 7, 2023

9:00 AM Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07

10:00 AM Welcome (Day 2)
Welcome (Day 2)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
10:15 AM Data Science & Imaging
Data Science & Imaging
10:15 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

10:15 AM Learning how to clean deep and fast, with R2D2: Residual-to-Residual DNN series for high-Dynamic range imaging in radio astronomy - Yves Wiaux (Heriot-Watt Edinburgh)

10:40 AM PolyCLEAN: A polyatomic CLEAN-like algorithm for sparse Bayesian imaging. - Adrian Jarret (EPFL)

11:05 AM Radio-astronomical Image Reconstruction with Conditional Denoising Diffusion Model - Mariia Drozdova (UNIGE)

11:30 AM HVOX: Scalable Interferometric Synthesis and Analysis of Spherical Sky Maps - Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)

11:55 AM Bluebild - A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)
Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Science
Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Science
10:15 AM - 12:20 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

10:15 AM From sunspots to the birth of Earth-like planets and the earliest galaxies: status update on the SKACH band 6 white paper - Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))

10:30 AM Science Motivation and Performance Update - Tyler Bourke (SKA Observatory)

10:45 AM Continuous frequency coverage from SKA MID to ALMA - Tony Mroczkowski (ESO)

11:00 AM Astrochemistry - a key science driver for a high frequency extension of the SKA - Susanne Wampfler (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)

11:25 AM Ranging to deep-space missions for gravitational waves and dark matter - Prasenjit Saha (University of Zurich)

11:40 AM Open Discussion
12:20 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:20 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
1:20 PM Astro Science (Part 1)
Astro Science (Part 1)
1:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

1:20 PM Science with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory - Anna Bonaldi (SKA organization)

1:45 PM Radio Continuum Observations of analogues of the Sources of Cosmic Reionization - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

2:10 PM The properties of HI discs and their evolution across cosmic time - Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

2:35 PM Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

3:00 PM Why Open Science in the SKA era? - Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC))
Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Instrumentation
Workshop: Mid-band 6 - Instrumentation
1:20 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

1:20 PM Introduction to the Mid-band-6 Instrumentaton Workshop - Stefan Kögl (KOEGL Space)

1:25 PM Design of the SKA-Mid Band 345(6) Feed-package - Angela Taylor (University of Oxford)

1:45 PM A status about Swiss Elegant Breadboard for SKA MID band 6: disrupting without disturbing? - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

2:05 PM Band-Pass Filter Design For MID-6 Receiver - Mohammad Reza KHALVATI (HES-SO/HEIG-VD) Mohammad Azadifar (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

2:25 PM Design of wideband receiver system for Mid-band 6 and investigation of the higher-order mode effect of waveguide on its beam pattern - Yasumasa Yamasaki (Osaka Metropolitan University)

2:45 PM Open Discussion
3:30 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
3:30 PM - 3:35 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01

3:35 PM Transport to Lindt (transport provided)
Transport to Lindt (transport provided)
3:35 PM - 4:40 PM

4:40 PM Lindt Tour
Lindt Tour
4:40 PM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM Return to Hotels - Transport to city center provided (to Rennweg)
Return to Hotels - Transport to city center provided (to Rennweg)
7:00 PM - 7:20 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Friday, September 8, 2023

9:00 AM Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07

10:00 AM Welcome (Day 3)
Welcome (Day 3)
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
10:15 AM Dark & Quiet Skies
Dark & Quiet Skies
10:15 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

10:15 AM Updates on the protection of the Dark and Quiet Skies - Federico Di Vruno (SKAO)

10:30 AM Dark and Quiet Skies at UNCOPUOS – Sustainable Use of Outer Space - Thomas Schildknecht (University of Bern)

10:55 AM The Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies (CRAF) - Advocating for the protection of radio astronomy from harmful interference in Europe & South Africa - Susanne Wampfler (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)

11:20 AM IAU CPS SatHub: assessing and mitigating the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy - Mike Peel (SatHub)

11:45 AM Development of a Dark and Quiet Skies module for the Space Sustainability Rating - Vincent Python Adrien Saada (Space Sustainability Rating)
Workshop: SKA Data Science Challenge
Workshop: SKA Data Science Challenge
10:15 AM - 12:10 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

10:15 AM SKACH Data Science Challenge Results - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

10:35 AM Point Source Subtraction in visibility space - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

10:55 AM Instrumental Systematics for SDC3A-Foregrounds - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL) Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

11:15 AM Code Demonstration - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

11:40 AM Final Discussion and Reflection
12:10 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
1:10 PM Astro Science (Part 2)
Astro Science (Part 2)
1:10 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

1:10 PM Phoebos and SKA - Floor van Donkelaar

1:30 PM The robustness of machine learning for 21cm foreground removal - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

1:50 PM Field level model for HI: mocks and applications - Andrej Obuljen

2:10 PM Bayesian inference from all-sky searches for radio technosignatures - Claudio Grimaldi (EPFL)

2:30 PM BEoRN: a fast and flexible framework to simulate the epoch of cosmic dawn reionization - Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)

2:50 PM First Observational Campaigns of the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature (MIST) - Raul Alberto Monsalve Jara (Berkeley University)
Data Science & Simulations
Data Science & Simulations
1:10 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

1:10 PM Deep learning domain adaption between mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

1:35 PM Simulating HI Intensity Mapping for MeerKAT/SKA Mid - Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

2:00 PM Emulating Baryonic fields from cosmic to galaxy scales with Generative Deep Learning - Robert Feldmann (University of Zurich)

2:25 PM Fast Simulation of Cosmological Neutral Hydrogen with a Halo model approach - Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)

2:50 PM Open Discussion
3:15 PM Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01