Name: SKACH Spring Meeting 2024
Start: 2024-06-10T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-06-11T17:30:00+02:00
Location: ZHAW School of Engineering

SKACH Spring Meeting 2024

from Monday, 10 June 2024 (09:00) to Tuesday, 11 June 2024 (17:30)

Monday, 10 June 2024

09:30 Registration and Welcome Coffee
Registration and Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
Room: TN E0.58
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Spring Meeting - Elena Gavagnin (ZHAW)

10:20 Welcome to ZHAW - Dirk Wilhelm (ZHAW)

10:40 SKACH Mid-Year Update - Carolyn Crichton
11:00
11:00 - 11:20
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

11:00 SKACH: Reaching out - Tanya Petersen (EPFL)
11:20
11:20 - 12:00
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

11:20 SRCNet Vision and Engagement - Rohini Joshi (FHNW)

11:40 Road to SRCNet v0.1 - Carolina Lindqvist (EPFL) Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)
12:00 Lunch (Group photo)
Lunch (Group photo)
12:00 - 13:00
Room: TN E0.58
13:00
13:00 - 14:15
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

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

13:20 Streamlining solution for the hyper-converged cloud infrastructure at CSCS - Dino Conciatore (ETHZ/CSCS)

13:40 Versatile software-defined scientific clusters on CSCS' flagship infrastructure Alps - Miguel Gila (ETHZ/CSCS)

14:00 Scaling Sustainable Computing: New Methods for Enhancing Efficiency in the SKA Regional Data Centers - Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu (ESL/EPFL)
14:15
14:15 - 15:15
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

14:15 Forward Modeling of 21cm Intensity Mapping: Updates from the ETHZ Cosmology Group and the FHNW - Luis Fernando Machado Poletti Valle (ETH Zurich)

14:35 EMBER-2: mapping HI from dark matter-only simulations over cosmic time - Mauro Bernardini (Institute of Computational Sciences)

14:55 Generative AI for hydrodynamical simulations: 2D, 3D, or 6D galaxies? - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)
15:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45
Room: TN E0.58
15:45
15:45 - 17:05
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

15:45 Scattering-transform-based Galaxy Classification and Image Generation - Markus Bredberg (EPFL)

16:05 Use of Foundation Models for Source Finding in Radio Images - Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

16:25 Bluebild Imaging Plus Plus (BIPP) - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

16:45 Radio Halo Detection with MWA Data - Ashutosh Kumar Mishra (EPFL)
17:05
17:05 - 17:40
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

17:05 SKA Data Challenge 3b - Inference - Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)
17:40 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
17:40 - 17:45
Room: TN E0.58

17:45 Apero
Apero
17:45 - 19:30
Room: TN E0.58
Tuesday, 11 June 2024
08:30
08:30 - 09:50
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

08:30 Faint Solar Transient Emission from SKA - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

08:50 BAO Cosmology with HIRAX - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

09:10 Improving HI cosmology analysis with field-level inference: forecasts and machine learning - Andrej Obuljen

09:30 Charting Cosmic Evolution: UV Background and the Persistence of HI in Post-EoR Simulations - Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)
09:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
09:50 - 10:20
Room: TN E0.58
10:20
10:20 - 11:20
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

10:20 First Results of the Phoebos Simulation: Galaxy Sizes during the Early Universe - Floor van Donkelaar

10:40 Radio-SEDs of low-z Analogs of the Sources of Reionization - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

11:00 Evolution of the neutral interstellar medium during low-z galaxy mergers - Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))
11:20
11:20 - 12:00
Room: TN E0.58
Contributions

11:20 Status of SKA-MIDband 6 instrumentation work - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

11:40 Fast, high-resolution correlations on RFSoC devices with White Rabbit synchronisation - Etienne Lyard (UNIGE)
12:00 Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks
12:00 - 12:05
Room: TN E0.58

12:05 Lunch
Lunch
12:05 - 13:05
Room: TN E0.58

13:05 FLARE Planning Meeting (Invitation only)
FLARE Planning Meeting (Invitation only)
13:05 - 14:05
Room: TN E0.58

SNSF Project Grant Planning Meeting (Invitation only)
SNSF Project Grant Planning Meeting (Invitation only)
13:05 - 14:05
Room: TN E0.58

14:05 SKACH Board Meeting (Invitation only)
SKACH Board Meeting (Invitation only)
14:05 - 16:05
Room: TN E0.58