Name: Swiss SKA Days 2021
Start: 2021-09-07T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2021-09-08T18:00:00+02:00
Location: EPFL - Main Campus

Swiss SKA Days 2021

from Tuesday, 7 September 2021 (09:30) to Wednesday, 8 September 2021 (18:00)

Monday, 6 September 2021
Tuesday, 7 September 2021

09:30 Welcome Coffee
Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Welcome & Overview
Welcome & Overview
10:00 - 12:00
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

10:00 Opening remarks - Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)

10:10 Keynote - President of EPFL Prof. Martin Vetterli (EPFL)

10:25 SKA Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow - Chairperson of the Council of the SKA Observatory Dr. Catherine Cesarsky (SKAO)

10:40 Update on SKAO Status - SKA Director of Policy Development Dr. Simon Berry (SKA Observatory)

11:10 Update on Swiss Status - State Secretary of Education, Research, and Innovation Dr. Martina Hirayama

11:20 SKA China - Xiang-ping Wu (National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NAOC))

11:35 MeerKAT Status - SARAO Chief Scientist Dr. Fernando Camilo (South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:15
13:15 Industry
Industry
13:15 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

13:15 Session Introduction - Industrial Liaison Adviser Michel Hübner (ILO Office)

13:25 SKA Procurement status - SKA Head of Procurement Services Ian Hastings (SKA Organisation)

13:40 T4SCIENCE – An innovation case study - Pascal Rochat

14:00 Pitches

15:20 Q&A
15:30 Cofee Break
Cofee Break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 SKA Projects & Computing
SKA Projects & Computing
16:00 - 18:00
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

16:00 The European SKA Forum - Director of SKA France Dr. Chiara Ferrari (Lagrange Laboratory, OCA)

16:17 SKA Canada - Michael Rupen

16:29 SKA and 21-cm Cosmology - Leon Koopmans (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

16:41 SKA computing - SKA Computing Infrastructure Lead Dr. Miles Deegan (SKA Organisation)

16:58 EcoCloud - Babak Falsafi

17:10 SKA Regional Centers - SKA Head of Data Operations Dr. Rosie Bolton (SKAO)

17:22 CSCS & SKA - Pablo Fernandez (ETH Zurich / CSCS)

17:34 CTA Computing - Dr. Andrii Neronov
18:00 Apéro
Apéro
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
09:00 Science Session
Science Session
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

09:00 SKA Science Capabilities - SKA Science Director Dr. Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

09:15 SKA cradle of life - Didier Queloz (University of Cambridge)

09:38 Solar Science with SKA - Dr. Rohit Sharma

09:51 The MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey - Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

10:04 Searching for Jellyfish Galaxies with MeerKAT - Mpati Ramatsoku (Rhodes University / INAF-OAC)

10:17 Astrochemistry with the SKA - and how CRAF protects radioastronomy from interference - Prof. Susanne Wampfler
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Auditorium CE 3
11:00 Science Session II
Science Session II
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

11:00 Fundamental physics using intensity mapping with the SKA - Hamsa Padmanabhan

11:13 Galaxy Formation Simulations in the era of SKA and its precursors - Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

11:26 Links to CTAO - Prof. Teresa Montaruli

11:39 Intergalactic magnetic fields with SKA and CTA - Dr. Andrii Neronov

11:52 The HIRAX project - Prof. Alexandre Refregier

12:07 HIRAX Status and Systematics Studies - Dr. Devin Crichton

12:19 Proposed RF systems for SKA MID bands - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD) Miroslav Pantaleev (RUAG SA)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 Data Science Session
Data Science Session
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

14:00 AI for Astronomy in the SKA Era - Prof. Anna Scaife

14:14 Information-theoretic astro-imaging and data analysis - Prof. Slava Voloshynovskiy (University of Geneva)

14:26 Identifying ionized bubbles during reionization from SKA observations - Michele Bianco (University of Sussex)

14:38 Anomaly Detection in Astronomical Data using Machine Learning - Dr. Michelle Lochner

14:50 Accelerating the Computational Modeling of HI via Deep Learning - Robert Feldmann (University of Zurich)

15:02 A Deep Denoising Autoencoder approach for radio astronomy data - Dr. Claudio Gheller

15:14 Public Engagement in Times of Open Data and Open Science - Hanna Sathiapal
15:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Auditorium CE 3
16:00 Data Science Session II
Data Science Session II
16:00 - 17:24
Room: Auditorium CE 3
Contributions

16:00 Optimisation & AI for image formation in the SKA era - Prof. Yves Wiaux

16:13 Tools21cm: a user-friendly package to create mock SKA observations of the epoch of reionization - Sambit Giri (Stockholm University)

16:25 Towards fast and accurate predictions of the cosmic dawn for SKA - Aurel Schneider (ICS, University of Zurich)

16:38 SETI with SKA - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

16:50 SKA Science Data Challenge 2 - Emma Tolley (EPFL)

17:02 Interferometric Imaging in Radio Astronomy with the Sparsity-Promoting Frank-Wolfe Algorithm - Adrian Jarret (EPFL)

17:14 A MIGHTEE Study of the Group Environment - Shreyam Krishna