SKACH Spring Meeting 2024

10 Jun 2024, 09:00 → 11 Jun 2024, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

TN E0.58 (ZHAW School of Engineering)

Joanna Jermini-Howard, Carolyn Crichton

We are pleased to invite you to participate to the SKACH Spring Meeting hosted by our collaborators at the ZHAW School of Engineering. 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, 10 June

09:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee

Opening Session

Convener: Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)

1 Welcome to the SKACH Spring Meeting

Speaker: Elena Gavagnin (ZHAW)

2024_06_10_Consortium_SpringMeeting_Welcome.pdf

2 Welcome to ZHAW

Speaker: Prof. Dirk Wilhelm (ZHAW)

SoE-Presentation-SKACH.pdf

3 SKACH Mid-Year Update

Speaker: Carolyn Crichton

SKACH Spring Meeting Update.pdf

SKACH Outreach and Communications

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

4 SKACH: Reaching out

Speaker: Mrs Tanya Petersen (EPFL)

SKACH Spring Meeting Communications Update 03062024.pptx

SKAO Regional Centers (SRCs)

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

5 SRCNet Vision and Engagement

Speaker: Rohini Joshi (FHNW)

SRCNet Project Update

6 Road to SRCNet v0.1

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

Road To SRCNet v0.1.pdf

12:00 Lunch (Group photo)

HPC

Convener: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

7 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure Program Update

Speaker: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

Computing_Platforms_and_Infrastructure_Program_Update.pdf

8 Streamlining solution for the hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS

Speaker: Dino Conciatore (ETHZ/CSCS)

Hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS - SKACH.pdf

9 Versatile software-defined scientific clusters on CSCS' flagship infrastructure Alps

Speaker: Miguel Gila (ETHZ/CSCS)

2024.06.10 - SKACH Spring meeting v2.pdf

10 Scaling Sustainable Computing: New Methods for Enhancing Efficiency in the SKA Regional Data Centers

Speaker: Dr Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu (ESL/EPFL)

2024_June10-SKACH-Spring-Meeting-Denisa.pdf

Data Science & Simulations

Convener: Darren Reed (University of Zurich)

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

Speaker: Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

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

12 EMBER-2: mapping HI from dark matter-only simulations over cosmic time

Speaker: Mauro Bernardini (Institute of Computational Sciences)

slides_mauro_bernardini.pptx

13 Generative AI for hydrodynamical simulations: 2D, 3D, or 6D galaxies?

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

24/06/10

240610_GenAI_2D_3D_6D_compressed.pdf

15:15 Coffee Break

Data Science & Imaging

Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

14 Scattering-transform-based Galaxy Classification and Image Generation

Speaker: Markus Bredberg (EPFL)

SKACHs24 - ST Generation-2.pdf

15 Use of Foundation Models for Source Finding in Radio Images

Speaker: Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

SKACH_Summer24_Lastufka.pdf

16 Bluebild Imaging Plus Plus (BIPP)

Speaker: Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

Bluebild Imaging Plus Plus

17 Radio Halo Detection with MWA Data

Speaker: Ashutosh Kumar Mishra (EPFL)

SKACH24-Halo_Detection2.pdf

SKA Data Challenge 3b - Inference - Discussion

Convener: Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)

18 SKA Data Challenge 3b - Inference

Speaker: Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)

SKACH_SDC3b_240611.pdf

17:40 Closing Remarks

17:45 Apero

Tuesday, 11 June

SKACH Science (Part 1)

Convener: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

19 Faint Solar Transient Emission from SKA

Speaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

Faint-Solar-Transient-Emission-from-SKA_rohit.pptx

20 BAO Cosmology with HIRAX

Speaker: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

BAO Cosmology with HIRAX

HIRAX BAO SKACH Spring.pdf

21 Improving HI cosmology analysis with field-level inference: forecasts and machine learning

Speaker: Andrej Obuljen

Obuljen_Winterthur.pdf

22 Charting Cosmic Evolution: UV Background and the Persistence of HI in Post-EoR Simulations

Speaker: Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)

Charting Cosmic Evolution: UV Background and the Persistence of HI in the Post-EoR Simulation

movie_HI_EoR2Post.avi

09:50 Coffee Break

SKACH Science (Part 2)

Convener: Dr Miroslava Dessauges (Unige)

23 First Results of the Phoebos Simulation: Galaxy Sizes during the Early Universe

Speaker: Ms Floor van Donkelaar

SKACH spring meeting.pptx

24 Radio-SEDs of low-z Analogs of the Sources of Reionization

Speaker: Dr Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

Radio-SEDs of low-z Analogs of the Sources of Reionization

25 Evolution of the neutral interstellar medium during low-z galaxy mergers

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

pres_MTSargent_110624.pdf

Instrumentation

Convener: Gilles Feusier (EPFL)

26 Status of SKA-MIDband 6 instrumentation work

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

FINAL_20240611_SKACH_spring_meeting-inst_status_v0.3[2].pdf

27 Fast, high-resolution correlations on RFSoC devices with White Rabbit synchronisation

Speaker: Etienne Lyard (UNIGE)

SKASpringMeetingRFSoC22.pdf

12:00 Closing Remarks

12:05 Lunch

13:05 FLARE Planning Meeting (Invitation only)

13:05 SNSF Project Grant Planning Meeting (Invitation only)

14:05 SKACH Board Meeting (Invitation only)