Name: SKACH Winter Meeting
Start: 2024-01-22T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-01-23T17:30:00+01:00
Location: HES-SO/HE-Arc - Neuchâtel

SKACH Winter Meeting

from Monday, 22 January 2024 (09:00) to Tuesday, 23 January 2024 (17:30)

Monday, 22 January 2024

09:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
10:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Winter Meeting - Evelina Breschi (HES-SO)

10:20 SKACH 2023 Update and Future Planning - Carolyn Crichton
10:40 SKACH Outreach and Communications
SKACH Outreach and Communications
10:40 - 11:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

10:40 SKACH Outreach and Communications - Tanya Petersen (EPFL)
11:00 SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

11:00 SKAO and SRCNet - Rohini Joshi

11:15 Updates on SRCNet infrastructure prototyping work - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL) Carolina Lindqvist (EPFL)

11:30 Results of the SRCNet review - André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

11:35 Discussion: Connections between SRCNet and SKACH - André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))
12:00 Lunch (Group photo)
Lunch (Group photo)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
13:00 HPC
HPC
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

13:00 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure Program Update - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

13:20 Quantum Computing & Radio Astronomy - Emma Tolley (EPFL)

13:40 Compression for Extreme-Scale Computing: A Case Study of SPH-EXA's I/O architecture - Yiqing Zhu (Univeristy of Basel)
14:00 Data Science & Simulations
Data Science & Simulations
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

14:00 Map-to-map translation of simulated galaxies with conditional GANs - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

14:20 Forward Modeling of 21cm Intensity Mapping: Updates from the ETHZ Cosmology Group and the FHNW - Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

14:40 Model and Exploratory Analysis of HI Content in the Halo Occupancy Method - Michele Bianco (EPFL)
15:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Data Science & Imaging
Data Science & Imaging
15:30 - 16:30
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

15:30 Bluebild: A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

15:50 Self-Supervised Learning for MeerKAT Images - Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

16:10 STAR (STochastic Astronomical TURBO) - Mariia Drozdova (University of Geneva)
16:30 SKACH Data Challenge - Results and Future Plans
SKACH Data Challenge - Results and Future Plans
16:30 - 18:00
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

16:30 SKACH Date Challenge - Results - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

16:50 SKACH Data Challenge - Future Plans - Emma Tolley (EPFL)
18:00 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
18:00 - 18:05
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor

18:05 Apero
Apero
18:05 - 19:30
Room: 3rd Floor
Tuesday, 23 January 2024
09:00 SKACH Science
SKACH Science
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

09:00 Probing the Sources of Reionization using Radio Observations - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

09:20 New constraints on HI cosmology and galaxy evolution at z < 0.5 from SKA precursors - Francesco Sinigaglia (Université de Gèneve)

09:40 The WISDOM of power spectra: how the galactic gravitational potential impacts the structure of a galaxy's central gas reservoir - Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

10:00 CosmoPower-JAX: high-dimensional Bayesian inference with differentiable cosmological emulators - Davide Piras (davide.piras@unige.ch)

10:20 ESO-SKA synergies for extragalactic survey science - Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))
10:40 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
11:10 Swiss MWA Planning
Swiss MWA Planning
11:10 - 12:10
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

11:10 Status outlook and discussion
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
13:10 Instrumentation
Instrumentation
13:10 - 14:10
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor
Contributions

13:10 Status of the SKACH Instrumentation programme and presentation of some RF/front-end aspects - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

13:30 100 Gbps data acquisition system prototyping - Alberto Dassatti (HES-SO)

13:50 Equipment and method for SKA-lo calibration - Alexandra Andersson (HES-SO Valais-Wallis) Joseph Moerschell (HES_SO Valais-Wallis)
14:10 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
14:10 - 14:15
Room: Room 328, 3rd floor

14:30 Board Members only
Board Members only
14:30 - 16:30