SKACH Winter Meeting

22 Jan 2024, 09:00 → 23 Jan 2024, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Room 328, 3rd floor (HES-SO/HE-Arc - Neuchâtel)

Joanna Jermini-Howard, Carolyn Crichton

We are pleased to invite you to participate to the SKACH Winter Meeting hosted by our collaborators at the HES-SO/HE-Arc in Neuchâtel. This event will focus on consortium-wide updates, and updates from the five SKACH programs: Comms & Outreach, Instrumentation, Computing Platforms & Infrastructure, Data Science & Simulations and Science (AstroSignals).

SKACH is primarily funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), and is responsible for managing the Swiss contribution to the SKAO. SKACH also leverages funding from external grants such as AstroSignals SINERGIA, SNF Bilateral, PASC, InnoSuisse, and Horizon Europe.

This endeavor is lead by a strong contingent of Swiss institutions; including, Universität Basel (UniBas), Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Universität Zürich (UZH), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), Université de Genève (UniGE), Haute École spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO), Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS) and the International Space Science Institute in Bern (ISSI Bern).

 

 

Monday, 22 January

09:30 → 10:00 Registration and Welcome Coffee

10:00 → 10:40 Monday morning: Opening Session

Convener: Evelina Breschi (HES-SO)

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Winter Meeting

Speaker: Evelina Breschi (HES-SO)

2024_01_22_Consortium_Winter_MTG_Welcome_SAM [Lecture seule].pptx

10:20 SKACH 2023 Update and Future Planning

Speaker: Carolyn Crichton

SKACH Update.pdf

10:40 → 11:00 Monday morning: SKACH Outreach and Communications

Convener: Mrs Tanya Petersen (EPFL)

10:40 SKACH Outreach and Communications

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Petersen (EPFL)

SKACH Winter Meeting Communications Update 21012024(2).pptx

11:00 → 12:00 Monday morning: SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)

Convener: André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

11:00 SKAO and SRCNet

Speaker: Rohini Joshi

SKAO and the SRCNet, SKACH Winter Meeting '24, RJ .pdf

11:15 Updates on SRCNet infrastructure prototyping work

Speakers: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL), Carolina Lindqvist (EPFL)

SKACH winter days update.pdf

11:30 Results of the SRCNet review

Speaker: André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

SKACH winter meeting 24 seac review.pdf

11:35 Discussion: Connections between SRCNet and SKACH

Speaker: André Csillaghy (University of Applied Sciences North Western Switzerland (FHNW))

SKACH and SRC - discussion notes winter 24.pdf

SRCNET & SKACH winter meeting 24.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch (Group photo)

13:00 → 14:00 Monday afternoon: HPC

Convener: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

13:00 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure Program Update

Speaker: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

Computing_Platforms_and_Infrastructure_Program_Update.pdf

13:20 Quantum Computing & Radio Astronomy

Speaker: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

QC_Radio.pdf

13:40 Compression for Extreme-Scale Computing: A Case Study of SPH-EXA's I/O architecture

Speaker: Yiqing Zhu (Univeristy of Basel)

2024-01-22-Compression-for-Extreme-Scale-Computing.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Monday afternoon: Data Science & Simulations

Convener: Darren Reed (University of Zurich)

14:00 Map-to-map translation of simulated galaxies with conditional GANs

Speaker: Dr Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

Map-to-map translation of simulated galaxies with conditional GANs

phdenzel_skach_winter24_compressed.pdf

14:20 Forward Modeling of 21cm Intensity Mapping: Updates from the ETHZ Cosmology Group and the FHNW

Speaker: Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

ETHZ_FHNW_Updates.pdf

ETHZ_FHNW_Updates.pptx

14:40 Model and Exploratory Analysis of HI Content in the Halo Occupancy Method

Speaker: Dr Michele Bianco (EPFL)

WinterSwissSKADay_HIRAX_240122.pdf

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 16:30 Monday afternoon: Data Science & Imaging

Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

15:30 Bluebild: A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager

Speaker: Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

SKACH Winter Meeting 2024_ Bluebild.pdf

15:50 Self-Supervised Learning for MeerKAT Images

Speaker: Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

SKACH_Winter24_Lastufka.pdf

16:10 STAR (STochastic Astronomical TURBO)

Speaker: Mariia Drozdova (University of Geneva)

SKACH_winter_meeting_final.pdf

16:30 → 18:00 Monday afternoon: SKACH Data Challenge - Results and Future Plans

16:30 SKACH Date Challenge - Results

Speaker: Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

WinterSwissSKADay_sdc3_240122.pdf

16:50 SKACH Data Challenge - Future Plans

Speaker: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

Data Challenges.pdf

18:00 → 18:05 Closing Remarks

18:05 → 19:30 Apero

Tuesday, 23 January

09:00 → 10:40 Tuesday morning: SKACH Science

Convener: Prof. Daniel Schaerer (Obsevatoire de Geneve)

09:00 Probing the Sources of Reionization using Radio Observations

Speaker: Dr Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

Omkar_SKACH_Winter_meeting_2024.pdf

09:20 New constraints on HI cosmology and galaxy evolution at z < 0.5 from SKA precursors

Speaker: Francesco Sinigaglia (Université de Gèneve)

SKACH_2024_neuchatel_presentation_sinigaglia.pdf

09:40 The WISDOM of power spectra: how the galactic gravitational potential impacts the structure of a galaxy's central gas reservoir

Speaker: Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

Gensior_SKACHWM24_WISDOMofPowerSpectra.pdf

10:00 CosmoPower-JAX: high-dimensional Bayesian inference with differentiable cosmological emulators

Speaker: Davide Piras (davide.piras@unige.ch)

Neuchatel_1200s_presentation.pptx

10:20 ESO-SKA synergies for extragalactic survey science

Speaker: Dr Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))

presMTSargent_230124.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Coffee Break

11:10 → 12:10 Tuesday morning: Swiss MWA Planning

Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

11:10 Status outlook and discussion

Swiss_MWA_Planning.pdf

12:10 → 13:10 Lunch

13:10 → 14:10 Tuesday afternoon: Instrumentation

Convener: Stefan Kögl (FHNW)

13:10 Status of the SKACH Instrumentation programme and presentation of some RF/front-end aspects

Speaker: Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

20240123_SKACH_winter meeting_MB6_status_v0.5.pdf

13:30 100 Gbps data acquisition system prototyping

Speaker: Alberto Dassatti (HES-SO)

20240123_SKACH_REDS.pdf

13:50 Equipment and method for SKA-lo calibration

Speakers: Alexandra Andersson (HES-SO Valais-Wallis), Joseph Moerschell (HES_SO Valais-Wallis)

2024_01_22_SKACH_Winter_Calibration.pdf

14:10 → 14:15 Closing Remarks

14:30 → 16:30 Board Meeting: Board Members only