Swiss SKA Days 2025

Session

Tuesday morning

Aug 26, 2025, 9:00 AM

SW E11 (Aula) (ZHAW - SW Building)

Conveners

Tuesday morning: Opening Session (Day 2)

• Emma Tolley (EPFL)

Tuesday morning: Data Science & Imaging (Part 1)

• Emma Tolley (EPFL)

Tuesday morning: Dark & Quiet Skies

• Carolyn Crichton

Tuesday morning: Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

• Emma Tolley (EPFL)

Tuesday morning: Precursor Science

• Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

105. A plenary overview of the parallel sessions

Emma Tolley (EPFL)

8/26/25, 9:00 AM

Opening Session (Day 2)

96. Satellite Mega-constellations: The risks for the SKA and a Potential Solution with TABASCAL

Dr Chris Finlay (EPFL)

8/26/25, 9:15 AM

Dark & Quiet Skies

74. The R2D2 deep neural network series paradigm for radio-astronomical imaging

Mr Ayoub Tajja (EPFL)

8/26/25, 9:15 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

66. Classification of cluster radio emission with machine learning

Markus Bredberg (EPFL)

8/26/25, 9:35 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

91. Committee on Radio Astronomy Frequencies: an update on our ongoing work for protecting radio astronomy

Susanne Wampfler (Center for Space and Habitability, University of Bern)

8/26/25, 9:35 AM

Dark & Quiet Skies

82. Radio Astronomy in the era of Large Models: Specialised Fine-tuning

Erica Lastufka (University of Geneva)

8/26/25, 9:55 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

111. The renewed IAU Centre for the Protection of Dark and Quiet Sky

Prof. Piero Benvenuti (International Astronomical Union CPS)

8/26/25, 9:55 AM

Dark & Quiet Skies

84. Complex-valued DDRM for Visibility inpainting

Michel Morales (EPFL)

8/26/25, 10:15 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

109. Satellite software tools for the community

Mike Peel (Imperial College London)

8/26/25, 10:15 AM

Dark & Quiet Skies

107. The importance of Dark and Quiet Skies in Swiss Astronomy and the Dialog with the Space Industry

Stephan Hellmich (EPFL)

8/26/25, 10:35 AM

Dark & Quiet Skies

93. Separating Point Source Contaminants at the Visibility Level

Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

8/26/25, 11:25 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

90. Galaxy Clusters on the Road to the SKA: Probing Diffuse Emission with Machine Learning

Dr Swarna Chatterjee (Rhodes University)

8/26/25, 11:45 AM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)

100. The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment (HIRAX) - Overview and Status Update

Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich), Jennifer Studer (ETH Zurich)

8/26/25, 11:45 AM

Precursor Science

99. Primary Beam Chromaticity in HIRAX: Characterization from Simulations and Power Spectrum Implications

Ajith Sampath (University of Geneva)

8/26/25, 12:05 PM

Precursor Science

87. Radio Astronomy in the era of Large Models: Can Vision-Language Models Generalize to Unseen Scientific Data?

Mariia Drozdova (University of Geneva), Vitaliy Kinakh (University of Geneva)

8/26/25, 12:05 PM

Data Science & Imaging (Part 2)