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, 6 September 2023 (09:00) to Friday, 8 September 2023 (17:05)

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

09:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
10:00 Opening Session (Day 1)
Opening Session (Day 1)
10:00 - 12:20
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

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

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

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

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

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

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

11:40 KEYNOTE: The Murchison Widefield Array, Precursor for the low frequency SKA - Steven Tingay (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)
12:20 Lunch (Group photo)
Lunch (Group photo)
12:20 - 13:20
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
13:20 SKACH Communications Update
SKACH Communications Update
13:20 - 14:10
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

13:20 The SKA Observatory’s communications strategy - Mathieu Isidro (SKA Organisation)

13:45 Prior SKACH Communications Initiatives - Tanya Petersen (EPFL)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
13:20 - 15:35
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

13:20 SRC Cheat Sheet - André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

13:25 High Performance Radio astronomy at Pawsey: past, present and future - Ugo Varetto (CSIRO)

13:50 SRCNet Infrastructure updates for CHSRC - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

14:10 SRCSC WG6: Science User Engagement - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)

14:30 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

14:50 Renku: a platform for sustainable data science - Rok Roškar (ETHZ)

15:05 EuroScienceGateway: robust, scalable, and integrated open infrastructure for data-driven research within EOSC - Volodymyr Savchenko (EPFL)

15:20 Astro-Ordas - Carlo Ferrigno (UniGe)
14:10 Workshop: SKAO Communications in Switzerland
Workshop: SKAO Communications in Switzerland
14:10 - 15:35
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02

15:35 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
15:35 - 16:05
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
16:05 Demo: SKACH Science Tools
Demo: SKACH Science Tools
16:05 - 16:55
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

16:05 PMT: Power Measurement Toolkit - Stefano Corda (EPFL)

16:30 Using KARABO for SKA Science Cases - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)
Precursor Science
Precursor Science
16:05 - 18:35
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

16:05 The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

16:30 CHORD and HIRAX Instrumentation and Calibration Techniques - Hsin Cynthia Chiang (McGill University)

16:55 FRBs as Probes of Cosmology and Fundamental Physics - Sievers Jonathan (McGill University)

17:20 Update on MeerKAT - Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

17:45 The HI intensity mapping power spectrum: insights from recent measurements - Hamsa Padmanabhan

18:10 Unveiling the Physics of the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionisation in the SKA era - Florent Mertens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institut)
16:55 Co-design
Co-design
16:55 - 18:10
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

16:55 Co-design for the SDP: now, AA2 and beyond - Shan Mignot (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, OCA, Laboratoire Lagrange)

17:20 SKA LOW Self-Calibration Benchmarking - Stefano Corda (EPFL)

17:45 SKA SDP Benchmark Suite - Stefano Corda (EPFL) Manuel Stutz (FHNW)
18:10 Observations Management and Controls
Observations Management and Controls
18:10 - 18:35
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

18:10 Cosylab Switzerland: Contribution to SKA Control System - Ivana Novak (Cosylab Switzerland)
18:35 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
18:35 - 18:40
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01

18:40 Tranport to Apero - Lake Side
Tranport to Apero - Lake Side
18:40 - 19:10

19:10 Apéro at Lake Side
Apéro at Lake Side
19:10 - 22:10

22:10 Return to Hotels - no transport provided
Return to Hotels - no transport provided
22:10 - 22:40
Thursday, 7 September 2023

09:00 Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07

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

10:15 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 PolyCLEAN: A polyatomic CLEAN-like algorithm for sparse Bayesian imaging. - Adrian Jarret (EPFL)

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

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

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

10:15 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 Science Motivation and Performance Update - Tyler Bourke (SKA Observatory)

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

11:00 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 Ranging to deep-space missions for gravitational waves and dark matter - Prasenjit Saha (University of Zurich)

11:40 Open Discussion
12:20 Lunch
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
13:20 Astro Science (Part 1)
Astro Science (Part 1)
13:20 - 15:30
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

13:20 Science with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory - Anna Bonaldi (SKA organization)

13:45 Radio Continuum Observations of analogues of the Sources of Cosmic Reionization - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

14:10 The properties of HI discs and their evolution across cosmic time - Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

14:35 Trajectory Based RFI Subtraction and Calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

15:00 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
13:20 - 15:30
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

13:20 Introduction to the Mid-band-6 Instrumentaton Workshop - Stefan Kögl (KOEGL Space)

13:25 Design of the SKA-Mid Band 345(6) Feed-package - Angela Taylor (University of Oxford)

13:45 A status about Swiss Elegant Breadboard for SKA MID band 6: disrupting without disturbing? - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

14:05 Band-Pass Filter Design For MID-6 Receiver - Mohammad Reza KHALVATI (HES-SO/HEIG-VD) Mohammad Azadifar (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

14:25 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)

14:45 Open Discussion
15:30 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
15:30 - 15:35
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01

15:35 Transport to Lindt (transport provided)
Transport to Lindt (transport provided)
15:35 - 16:40

16:40 Lindt Tour
Lindt Tour
16:40 - 19:00

19:00 Return to Hotels - Transport to city center provided (to Rennweg)
Return to Hotels - Transport to city center provided (to Rennweg)
19:00 - 19:20
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Friday, 8 September 2023

09:00 Coffee & Networking
Coffee & Networking
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07

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

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

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

10:55 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 IAU CPS SatHub: assessing and mitigating the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy - Mike Peel (SatHub)

11:45 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 - 12:10
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

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

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

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

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

11:40 Final Discussion and Reflection
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Mensa BIN-1-E.07
13:10 Astro Science (Part 2)
Astro Science (Part 2)
13:10 - 15:15
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-0-K.02
Contributions

13:10 Phoebos and SKA - Floor van Donkelaar

13:30 The robustness of machine learning for 21cm foreground removal - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

13:50 Field level model for HI: mocks and applications - Andrej Obuljen

14:10 Bayesian inference from all-sky searches for radio technosignatures - Claudio Grimaldi (EPFL)

14:30 BEoRN: a fast and flexible framework to simulate the epoch of cosmic dawn reionization - Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)

14:50 First Observational Campaigns of the Mapper of the IGM Spin Temperature (MIST) - Raul Alberto Monsalve Jara (Berkeley University)
Data Science & Simulations
Data Science & Simulations
13:10 - 15:15
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01
Contributions

13:10 Deep learning domain adaption between mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

13:35 Simulating HI Intensity Mapping for MeerKAT/SKA Mid - Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

14:00 Emulating Baryonic fields from cosmic to galaxy scales with Generative Deep Learning - Robert Feldmann (University of Zurich)

14:25 Fast Simulation of Cosmological Neutral Hydrogen with a Halo model approach - Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)

14:50 Open Discussion
15:15 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
15:15 - 15:30
Room: Oerlikon Campus - BIN-1-B.01