Name: Swiss SKA Days 2022
Start: 2022-10-03T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2022-10-04T17:05:00+02:00
Location: USI, Lugano

Swiss SKA Days 2022

from Monday, 3 October 2022 (09:30) to Tuesday, 4 October 2022 (17:05)

Monday, 3 October 2022

09:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Opening Session
Opening Session
10:00 - 11:30
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

10:05 Models, Math, Data, and Computing - Computational Science at USI - Rolf Krause (USI Lugano, Euler Institute)

10:15 The Future of Extreme Compute and Data - Maxime Martinasso (ETH Zurich / CSCS)

10:25 KEYNOTE: Why South Africa bid to host the SKA - Robert Adam (SARAO)

10:40 Building SKAO, an International Collaborative Project - Catherine Cesarsky (SKAO Council Chairperson)

10:50 SKAO status and its International stakeholders - Thijs Geurts (SKAO)

11:00 The SKA - Planning for Science - Tyler Bourke (SKA Observatory)

11:10 SKACH Consortium Overview and Update - Carolyn Crichton

11:15 SKACH Work Packages - Stefan Kögl (KOEGL Space)
11:30 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
11:30 - 11:45
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
11:45 Precursors
Precursors
11:45 - 13:00
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

11:45 Intensity Mapping Systematics with HIRAX and the SKA - Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

11:55 Calibration in the Presence of Satellites for Radio Interferometry - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

12:05 Fast Generation of 21cm Emission Maps for Intensity Mapping - Pascal Hitz (ETH Zurich)

12:15 Distributed Workflow Management for Radio Astronomy Pipelines - Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University & SKA SA)

12:25 Science with MeerKAT - Kenda Knowles (Rhodes University / South African Radio Astronomy Observatory)

12:35 SKA-CTA connections - Andrii Neronov (EPFL)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
14:00 AstroScience (parallel)
AstroScience (parallel)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

14:00 21cm Intensity Mapping: opportunities and challenges on the road to the SKA Observatory - Marta Spinelli

14:10 Research on Solar Magnetism at IRSOL - Renzo Ramelli (IRSOL, USI, Locarno)

14:20 Simulated Intensity Mapping Survey via Interferometry for SKA and its Precursors - Sara A. Safari (ETH Zurich)

14:28 Unravelling the properties of the first supermassive black holes using the SKA Pulsar Timing Array - Hamsa Padmanabhan (UniGe)

14:38 Microlensing detection of a binary black hole within reach of the Pulsar Timing Array - Frederic Courbin (EPFL)

14:48 Star formation with the SKA Observatory - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)

14:58 Modeling the FIR-radio correlation in star-forming galaxies across cosmic history - Jennifer Schober (LASTRO, EPFL)

15:08 Radio Continuum Observations of Compact Emission Line Galaxies and Sources of Cosmic Reionization - Omkar Bait (University of Geneva)

15:16 The HI discs of galaxies as tracers of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution - Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

15:24 Proto-Globular Clusters Properties at the dawn of galaxy formation - Floor van Donkelaar

15:32 Phoebos Simulations into the Cosmic Dawn - Darren Reed (University of Zurich)

15:40 High-resolution simulations of subsonic Turbulence using SPH-EXA - Axel Sanz

15:48 Modeling HI at the field level - Andrej Obuljen
Industry (parallel)
Industry (parallel)
14:00 - 16:00
Room: Foyer
Contributions

14:00 Industry Session - Michel Hübner (Swiss ILO Office)

14:05 Cosylab Switzerland and SKA - Ivana Novak (Cosylab Switzerland)

14:15 LNAs in RadioAstronomy - Diego Marti (DIRAMICS AG)

14:25 Orolia and T4Science Resilient PNT Clock Reference solutions - Sylvere Froidevaux

14:35 Software Technology for Data Handling & Exploitation - Laszlo Istvan Etesi (Ateleris GmbH)

14:45 Ultrafast lasers for the next-generation of photonics timing & frequency distribution - Florian Emaury (Menhir Photonics)

14:55 SKACH instrumentation program: system architecture phase of Mid-band 6 receiver - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

15:10 Update on activities for the protection of Dark and Quiet skies - Federico Di Vruno (SKAO)

15:20 SKAO HPC Co-Design Opportunities - Miles Deegan (SKA Organisation)
16:00 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
16:00 - 16:15
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
16:15 Introduction to CSCS Tours
Introduction to CSCS Tours
16:15 - 16:35
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

16:15 Tour of CSCS - Michele De Lorenzi (ETH Zurich / CSCS)
16:35 Departure to CSCS
Departure to CSCS
16:35 - 16:45

16:45 Visit of CSCS
Visit of CSCS
16:45 - 17:45

17:45 Individual return to city center
Individual return to city center
17:45 - 19:00

19:00 Apéro
Apéro
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 4 October 2022
09:00 HPC Computing and platforms
HPC Computing and platforms
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

09:00 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS) Darren Reed (University of Zurich)

09:15 SKA Regional Centre Roadmap - Rosie Bolton (SKAO)

09:30 Overview of Swiss SRCNet prototyping activities in the context of the Coral Team - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

09:40 ECLAT: Extreme Computing Lab for Astronomical Telescopes - Damien Gratadour
10:00 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
10:15 HPC Computing and platforms (Continued)
HPC Computing and platforms (Continued)
10:15 - 11:35
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

10:15 Software / hardware co-design for the Square Kilometre Array - Chris Broekema (ASTRON)

10:25 Radio-astronomical imaging with HIP - Stefano Corda (EPFL)

10:35 SPH-EXA : A framework for hydrodynamics (SPH) and gravity at Exascale - Sebastian Keller (ETH Zürich / CSCS)

10:45 The SKA Science Data Challenges - Philippa Hartley (SKAO)
11:35 Outreach & Communications
Outreach & Communications
11:35 - 12:00
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

11:35 Communications and Outreach at SKACH – An Overview - Stephanie Parker (SKACH)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
13:00 Data Science & Imaging
Data Science & Imaging
13:00 - 15:10
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

13:00 Data Science & Simulations Program Overview - Simon Felix (FHNW)

13:10 Karabo Pipeline - The SKA Digital Twin - Simon Felix (FHNW) Dr. Rohit Sharma

13:30 Radio Astronomical Data Processing with GPU using DASK-cudF - Arpan Das (EPFL)

13:40 Fast, Scalable and Accurate Wide-Field Radio Interferometry Gridding and Degridding via the NUFFT - Matthieu SIMEONI (EPFL Center for Imaging)

13:50 A Polyatomic Frank-Wolfe algorithm for source deconvolution with sparsity priors: application to simulated data with RASCIL - Adrian Jarret (EPFL)

14:00 Bluebild: A Next Generation Radio Interferometric Imager applied to Solar Observations - Shreyam Krishna (EPFL)

14:10 Challenging radio-astronomy imaging: a direct source localization from uv-plane observations - Olga Taran (University of Geneva)

14:20 Image reconstruction algorithms in radio interferometry: from handcrafted to learned regularization denoisers - Yves Wiaux (Heriot-Watt Edinburgh)

14:30 A fast and accurate method to generate 3D 21cm maps from cosmic dawn to reionisation. - Timothée Schaeffer (University of Zurich)
15:10 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
15:10 - 15:25
Room: Outside Aula Polivalente
15:25 Data Science & Deep Learning
Data Science & Deep Learning
15:25 - 16:20
Room: Aula Polivalente
Contributions

15:25 Deep Learning approach for HI regions identification and 21-cm signal recovery from SKA-Low observations - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

15:35 EMBER: emulating HI from dark matter-only simulations - Mauro Bernardini (Institute of Computational Sciences)

15:45 Accelerating radiative transfer simulations with physics-informed neural networks - Damien Korber (Université de Genève)

15:55 21cm foreground subtraction with machine learning - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

16:05 Delensing Gravitational Lensing Effects with Physics-Informed Neural Networks - Ayoub Tajja
16:20 Closing remarks
Closing remarks
16:20 - 16:30
Room: Aula Polivalente