Spring SKACH Consortium Meeting

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 09:00 → 16:25 Europe/Zurich

HCP E 47.2 (ETHZ, Hönngerberg)

Carolyn Crichton

We are pleased to invite you to participate to the first SKACH Spring Consortium Meeting. This event will focus on consortium-wide updates, and updates from the five SKACH programs: Comms and Outreach, Instrumentation, Computing Platforms and Infrastructure, Data Science, and Science.

SKACH is funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), and is responsible for managing the Swiss contribution to the SKAO.

This endeavor is lead by a strong contingent of Swiss institutions; including, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW), Universität Zürich (UZH), Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich (ETHZ), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW), Universität Basel (UniBas), Université de Genève (UniGE), Haute École spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (HES-SO), Centro Svizzero di Calcolo Scientifico (CSCS).

Coffee and Networking: Bellavista

Morning Session

1 Welcome and Introduction

Welcome and Introduction to the Spring SKACH Consortium Meeting

Speaker: Prof. Alexandre Refregier

2022_05_24_Consortium_Spring_MTG_Welcome(1).pptx

2 SKACH Governance

Speaker: Carolyn Crichton

2022_05_24_Consortium_Spring_MTG_MGMT_Update(2).pptx

3 Work Packages and Getting Involved

Speaker: Mr Stefan Kögl

2022_05_24_Consortium_Spring_MTG_MGMT_Update(2).pptx

4 Outreach Program Overview

Speaker: Carolyn Crichton

2022_05_24_Outreach Program Overview(1).pptx

5 Instrumentation Program Overview

Speaker: Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

20220523-1_SKACH_Instrumentation_program_overview.pptx

6 Architecture of a MID-band 6 / multi-band radioastromy receiver system

Speaker: Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

20220523_SKACH_Architecture_of_MID6-MB_receiver_system.pptx

Lunch: Lunch at Belavista

Afternoon Session

7 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure Program Overview

Speaker: Mr Victor Holanda (CSCS)

hpc_ch-swiss_ska_spring_sync_up.pdf

8 Simulations and Data Science Program Overview

Speaker: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

skach-datascience-overview.pdf

9 Karabo: The SKA Digital Twin

Speaker: Mr Simon Felix (FHNW)

2022-05-24 Karabo - The SKA Digital Twin(1).pptx

10 Image-Domain Gridding porting to HIP

Speaker: Stefano Corda (EPFL)

Stefano_Corda-24-05-2022-SKACH.pptx

11 Scientific Visualization for the SRCs

Speaker: Dr Arpan Das (EPFL)

SKA_Arpan_Das_24-05-2022_SKACH.pdf

12 Hydrodynamics with gravity in SPH-EXA

Speaker: Dr Sebastian Keller (ETHZ)

2022_05_24_Sebastian_Keller.pdf

14:20 Break

13 Science Program Overview

Speaker: Dr Mirka Dessauges-Zavadsky (UniGe)

SKACH-ScienceProg_May22_Dessauges.pdf

14 Interpretation framework for SKA observations

Speaker: Dr Sambit Kumar Giri (UZH)

2022_05_24_Sambit_Interpretation.pdf

15 Solar Science with SKA

Speaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

2022-05-24_Rohit_Solar.odp

16 Galaxies at cosmic noon: what will SKA1-MID see?

Speaker: Dr Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))

presMTSargent_240522.pdf

17 The impact of the smallest galaxies on the EoR

Speaker: Dr Yves Revaz (EPFL)

2022_05_4_Revaz_TheRoleOfdSphGalaxies.pdf

18 Post-reionisation 21cm Cosmology - Sky and Instrument Simulation

Speaker: Dr. Devin Crichton

Devin Crichton - SKACH ETH Consortium Meeting.pdf

19 Synergies between SKA and LISA

Speaker: Prof. Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)

SKALISA2022-lmayer.pdf

20 Closing

Speaker: Carolyn Crichton