Swiss SKA Days 2022
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Europe/Zurich
USI, Lugano
USI, Lugano
Aula Polivalente, USI
Campus Est
Via la Santa 1
CH - 6962 Lugano - Viganello
Joanna Jermini-Howard
(EPFL),
Jean-Paul Kneib
(EPFL)
Description
We are pleased to invite you to participate to the sixth edition of the Swiss SKA days. During this exciting 2-day event we will discuss the ambitious SKA radio-astronomy project at the forefront of advanced technology and computing.
The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) project is an international effort to build the world’s largest radio telescope, with eventually over one square kilometer of collecting area in South Africa and Australia. The SKA Days 2022 will discuss the Swiss interest and participation in this ambitious project.
The sixth Swiss SKA meeting will take place during October 3 to 4 at USI (Università della Svizzera italiana) in Lugano at the kind invitation of CSCS (Swiss National Supercomputing Centre).
Participants
Adrian Jarret
Alexandre Refregier
Alexey Boyarsky
Andrej Obuljen
Andrii Neronov
André Csillaghy
Arpan Das
Axel Sanz
Ayoub Tajja
Carlos Peña-Reyes
Carolyn Crichton
Catherine Cesarsky
Chris Broekema
Chris Finlay
Christof Bühler
christophe donzelot
Damien Gratadour
Damien Korber
Daniel Schaerer
Darren Reed
Denisa-Andreea Constantinescu
Devin Crichton
Diego Casadei
Diego Marti
Dominique Bovey
Eberli Felix
Edwin Retana-Montenegro
Elena Gavagnin
Emma Tolley
Emmanuelle David
Erica Lastufka
Etienne Orliac
Federico Di Vruno
Floor van Donkelaar
Florian Emaury
Frank-Peter Schilling
Frederic Courbin
Gilles Feusier
gilles fourestey
Hamsa Padmanabhan
Hatem Ghorbel
Ivana Novak
Jean-guillaume Piccinali
Jean-Paul Kneib
Jennifer Schober
Jindra Gensior
Joan Rue Queralt
Joanna Jermini-Howard
Joseph Moerschell
Kenda Knowles
Kevin Reymond
Laszlo Istvan Etesi
Lucio Mayer
Lukas Gehrig
Manuel Stutz
Marc Audard
Marcel Graf
Mark Sargent
Marta Spinelli
Matthieu SIMEONI
Mauro Bernardini
Maxime Martinasso
Michaela Hirschmann
Michel Hübner
Michele Bianco
Michele De Lorenzi
Mohammad Reza KHALVATI
Mziyanda Mngqibisa
Noah Kubli
Oleg Smirnov
Olga Taran
Olivier Küttel
Omkar Bait
Osman Seckin Simsek
Pablo Fernandez
Pablo Llopis
Pascal Hitz
Pedro Capelo
Philipp Denzel
Philippa Hartley
Philippa Hartley
Renzo Ramelli
Robert Adam
Rohit Sharma
Rolf Krause
Rosie Bolton
Sara A. Safari
Sebastian Keller
Sepand Kashani
Shan Mignot
Shreyam Parth Krishna
Simon Felix
Simon Frasch
Simone Ulmer
Sinenhlanhla precious Sikhosana
Slava Voloshynovskiy
Stefan Kögl
Stefano Corda
Stephanie Parker
Svetlana Berdyugina
Sylvere Froidevaux
Tanita Ramburuth-Hurt
Taras Holotyak
Tatjana Ruefli
Thijs Geurts
Tianyue Chen
Timothée Schaeffer
Tyler Bourke
Victor Holanda Rusu
Vincenzo Timmel
Vitaliy Kinakh
Volodymyr Savchenko
Yves Wiaux
Yvonne Bemelmans
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09:30
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10:00
Registration & Welcome Coffee 30m USI Campus
USI Campus
In front of Aula Polivalente -
10:00
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11:30
Monday Morning: Opening Session Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)-
10:05
Models, Math, Data, and Computing - Computational Science at USI 10mSpeaker: Rolf Krause (USI Lugano, Euler Institute)
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10:15
The Future of Extreme Compute and Data 10mSpeaker: Dr Maxime Martinasso (ETH Zurich / CSCS)
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10:25
KEYNOTE: Why South Africa bid to host the SKA 15mSpeaker: Robert Adam (SARAO)
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10:40
Building SKAO, an International Collaborative Project 10mSpeaker: Catherine Cesarsky (SKAO Council Chairperson)
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10:50
SKAO status and its International stakeholders 10mSpeaker: Mr Thijs Geurts (SKAO)
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11:00
The SKA - Planning for Science 10mSpeaker: Dr Tyler Bourke (SKA Observatory)
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11:10
SKACH Consortium Overview and Update 5mSpeaker: Carolyn Crichton
- 11:15
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10:05
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11:30
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11:45
Coffee Break & Discussion 15m Outside Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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11:45
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13:00
Monday Morning: Precursors Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Dr. Devin Crichton-
11:45
Intensity Mapping Systematics with HIRAX and the SKA 10mSpeaker: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)
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11:55
Calibration in the Presence of Satellites for Radio Interferometry 10mSpeaker: Chris Finlay (UNIGE)
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12:05
Fast Generation of 21cm Emission Maps for Intensity Mapping 10mSpeaker: Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)
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12:15
Distributed Workflow Management for Radio Astronomy Pipelines 10mSpeaker: Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University & SKA SA)
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12:25
Science with MeerKAT 10mSpeaker: Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)
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12:35
SKA-CTA connections 10mSpeaker: Andrii Neronov (EPFL)
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11:45
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13:00
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14:00
Lunch 1h Outside Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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14:00
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16:00
Monday Afternoon: AstroScience (parallel) Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Marta Spinelli-
14:00
21cm Intensity Mapping: opportunities and challenges on the road to the SKA Observatory 10mSpeaker: Marta Spinelli
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14:10
Research on Solar Magnetism at IRSOL 10mSpeaker: Renzo Ramelli (IRSOL, USI, Locarno)
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14:20
Simulated Intensity Mapping Survey via Interferometry for SKA and its Precursors 8mSpeaker: Sara A. Safari (ETH Zurich)
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14:28
Unravelling the properties of the first supermassive black holes using the SKA Pulsar Timing Array 10mSpeaker: Hamsa Padmanabhan (UniGe)
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14:38
Microlensing detection of a binary black hole within reach of the Pulsar Timing Array 10mSpeaker: Prof. Frederic Courbin (EPFL)
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14:48
Star formation with the SKA Observatory 10mSpeaker: Marc Audard (University of Geneva)
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14:58
Modeling the FIR-radio correlation in star-forming galaxies across cosmic history 10mSpeaker: Jennifer Schober (LASTRO, EPFL)
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15:08
Radio Continuum Observations of Compact Emission Line Galaxies and Sources of Cosmic Reionization 8mSpeaker: Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)
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15:16
The HI discs of galaxies as tracers of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution 8mSpeaker: Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)
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15:24
Proto-Globular Clusters Properties at the dawn of galaxy formation 8mSpeaker: Floor van Donkelaar
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15:32
Phoebos Simulations into the Cosmic Dawn 8mSpeaker: Darren Reed (University of Zurich)
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15:40
High-resolution simulations of subsonic Turbulence using SPH-EXA 8mSpeaker: Mr Axel Sanz
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14:00
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14:00
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16:00
Monday Afternoon: Industry (parallel) Foyer (USI Campus)
Foyer
USI Campus
Convener: Michel Hübner- 14:00
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14:05
Cosylab Switzerland and SKA 10mSpeaker: Ivana Novak (Cosylab Switzerland)
- 14:15
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14:25
Orolia and T4Science Resilient PNT Clock Reference solutions 10mSpeaker: Sylvere Froidevaux
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14:35
Software Technology for Data Handling & Exploitation 10mSpeaker: Laszlo Istvan Etesi (Ateleris GmbH)
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14:45
Ultrafast lasers for the next-generation of photonics timing & frequency distribution 10mSpeaker: Florian Emaury (Menhir Photonics)
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14:55
SKACH instrumentation program: system architecture phase of Mid-band 6 receiver 15mSpeaker: Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)
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15:10
Update on activities for the protection of Dark and Quiet skies 10mSpeaker: Federico Di Vruno (SKAO)
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15:20
SKAO HPC Co-Design Opportunities 10mSpeaker: Miles Deegan (SKA Organisation)
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16:00
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16:15
Coffee Break & Discussion 15m Outside Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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16:15
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16:35
Monday Afternoon: Introduction to CSCS Tours Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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16:15
Tour of CSCS 20mSpeaker: Michele De Lorenzi (ETH Zurich / CSCS)
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16:15
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16:35
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16:45
Monday Afternoon: Departure to CSCS
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16:45
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17:45
Monday Afternoon: Visit of CSCS CSCS, Lugano
CSCS, Lugano
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17:45
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19:00
Monday Afternoon: Individual return to city center
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19:00
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21:00
Apéro 2h Seven Lugano
Seven Lugano
Via Stauffacher 1 Casella 5252 CH-6901 Lugano
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09:30
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10:00
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09:00
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10:00
Tuesday Morning: HPC Computing and platforms Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Pablo Fernandez (ETH Zurich / CSCS)-
09:00
Computing Platforms and Infrastructure 15mSpeakers: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS), Dr Darren Reed (University of Zurich)
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09:15
SKA Regional Centre Roadmap 15mSpeaker: Dr Rosie Bolton (SKAO)
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09:30
Overview of Swiss SRCNet prototyping activities in the context of the Coral Team 10mSpeaker: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)
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09:40
ECLAT: Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes 10mSpeaker: Damien Gratadour
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09:00
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10:00
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10:15
Coffee Break & Discussion 15m Outside Aula Polivalente (USI, Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI, Campus
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10:15
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11:35
Tuesday Morning: HPC Computing and platforms (Continued) Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Pablo Fernandez (ETH Zurich / CSCS)-
10:15
Software / hardware co-design for the Square Kilometre Array 10mSpeaker: Chris Broekema (ASTRON)
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10:25
Radio-astronomical imaging with HIP 10mSpeaker: Mr Stefano Corda (EPFL)
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10:35
SPH-EXA : A framework for hydrodynamics (SPH) and gravity at Exascale 10mSpeaker: Sebastian Keller (ETH Zürich / CSCS)
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10:15
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11:35
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12:00
Tuesday Morning: Outreach & Communications Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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11:35
Communications and Outreach at SKACH – An Overview 20mSpeaker: Stephanie Parker (SKACH)
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11:35
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12:00
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13:00
Lunch 1h Outside Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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13:00
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15:10
Tuesday Afternoon: Data Science & Imaging Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)-
13:00
Data Science & Simulations Program Overview 10mSpeaker: Simon Felix (FHNW)
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13:10
Karabo Pipeline - The SKA Digital Twin 20mSpeakers: Simon Felix (FHNW), Dr. Rohit Sharma
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13:30
Radio Astronomical Data Processing with GPU using DASK-cudF 10mSpeaker: Dr Arpan Das (EPFL)
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13:40
Fast, Scalable and Accurate Wide-Field Radio Interferometry Gridding and Degridding via the NUFFT 10mSpeaker: Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)
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13:50
A Polyatomic Frank-Wolfe algorithm for source deconvolution with sparsity priors: application to simulated data with RASCIL 10mSpeaker: Adrian Jarret (EPFL)
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14:00
Bluebild: A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager applied to Solar Observations 10mSpeaker: Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)
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14:10
Challenging radio-astronomy imaging: a direct source localization from uv-plane observations 10mSpeaker: Olga Taran (University of Geneva)
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14:20
Image reconstruction algorithms in radio interferometry: from handcrafted to learned regularization denoisers 10mSpeaker: Prof. Yves Wiaux (Heriot-Watt Edinburgh)
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14:30
A fast and accurate method to generate 3D 21cm maps from cosmic dawn to reionisation. 8mSpeaker: Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)
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13:00
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15:10
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15:25
Coffee Break & Discussion 15m Outside Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Outside Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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15:25
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16:20
Tuesday Afternoon: Data Science & Deep Learning Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
Convener: Emma Tolley (EPFL)-
15:25
Deep Learning approach for HI regions identification and 21-cm signal recovery from SKA-Low observations 10mSpeaker: Dr Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)
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15:35
EMBER: emulating HI from dark matter-only simulations 10mSpeaker: Mauro Bernardini (Institute of Computational Sciences)
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15:45
Accelerating radiative transfer simulations with physics-informed neural networks 10mSpeaker: Damien Korber (Université de Genève)
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15:55
21cm foreground subtraction with machine learning 10mSpeaker: Tianyue Chen (EPFL)
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16:05
Delensing Gravitational Lensing Effects with Physics-Informed Neural Networks 8mSpeaker: Ayoub Tajja
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15:25
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16:20
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16:30
Tuesday Afternoon: Closing remarks Aula Polivalente (USI Campus)
Aula Polivalente
USI Campus
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09:00
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10:00