Radio Astronomy Data-processing Inter Operability (RADIO) Workshops

27 Jan 2026, 09:00 → 29 Jan 2026, 17:30 UTC

66 (SKAO HQ)

Rhian Beer

This is a series of regular workshops to drive alignment of radio astronomy data processing systems amongst large radio astronomy facilities. 

 

The current state is that many facilities are working on updating their data processing systems to deal with the needs of new telescopes and upgrades whose requirements extend beyond the limited parallelisation capabilities of the existing community software. 

 

The focus of the workshops will be the development of working systems that scale to the immediate needs of the facilities (e.g. Continuum Imaging at AA* scale for SKAO, and Cube Imaging at WSU scale for ALMA), rather than research on new algorithms of low technical readiness level.

 

Tuesday, 27 January

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome, safety, facilities etc

Speaker: Nick Rees (SKAO)

Welcome and Introduction.pdf

09:15 → 09:30 Workshop Introduction

Speaker: Nick Rees (SKAO)

09:30 → 10:00 Top level direction

Speaker: Jessica Dempsey (ASTRON)

10:00 → 11:00 NRAO/ALMA status

Speaker: Jeff Kern (NRAO)

11:00 → 11:30 Break

11:30 → 12:30 SARAO/MeerKAT status

Speakers: Kim McAlpine (SARAO), Simon Perkins (SARAO)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 ASTRON/LOFAR status

Speaker: John Swinbank (ASTRON)

2026-01-27 — RADIO Workshop Intro.pdf

14:30 → 15:30 CSIRO/ASKAP status

Speaker: Steve Ord (CSIRO)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:00 SKAO/SKA status

Speakers: Nick Rees (SKAO), Peter Wortmann (SKAO)

SKAO Status.pdf

17:00 → 17:30 Summary of main themes. Topics for Day 2.

Speakers: Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nick Rees (SKAO)

Wednesday, 28 January

09:00 → 09:15 Summary of themes. Order of discussion

Speakers: Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nick Rees (SKAO)

09:15 → 10:15 Theme 1: (e.g. Calibration: Fidelity, performance)

10:15 → 10:45 Break

10:45 → 11:45 Theme 2: (e.g. Imaging: Continuum, Spectral line, direction dependent effects)

11:45 → 12:45 Theme 3: (e.g. Hardware: optimisation and profiling)

12:45 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 14:30 Theme 4: (e.g. MSv4: issues in use, potential developments, alternatives)

14:30 → 15:30 Theme 5: (e.g. Data management: processing locality, tiering, delivery, long term storage, etc.)

15:30 → 16:00 Break

16:00 → 17:00 Theme 6: (e.g. Community engagement, communication)

17:00 → 17:30 Summary. Topics for Day 3.

Speakers: Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nick Rees (SKAO)

Thursday, 29 January

09:00 → 09:30 Summary of themes. Order of discussion

Speakers: Jeff Kern (NRAO), Nick Rees (SKAO)

09:30 → 10:30 Slot 1

10:30 → 11:00 Break

11:00 → 12:00 Slot 2

12:00 → 13:00 Slot 3

13:00 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Slot 4

15:00 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:30 Slot 5

16:30 → 17:00 Close