Name: SKACH Winter Meeting
Start: 2023-01-12T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-01-13T17:30:00+01:00
Location: University of Basel, Alte Universität

SKACH Winter Meeting

from Thursday, 12 January 2023 (09:00) to Friday, 13 January 2023 (17:30)

Monday, 9 January 2023
Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Wednesday, 11 January 2023
Thursday, 12 January 2023

09:30 Registration & Welcome Coffee
Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:30 - 10:00
10:00 Welcome and SKACH Overview
Welcome and SKACH Overview
10:00 - 10:40
Room: Room -101
Contributions

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Winter Meeting - Florina Ciorba (University of Basel)

10:20 SKACH Year in Review and Plans for 2023 - Carolyn Crichton
10:40 SKA Data Science Challenge 3
SKA Data Science Challenge 3
10:40 - 11:20
Room: Room -101
Contributions

10:40 SKA Data Challenge 3: Foreground removal update from SKACH team - Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

11:00 Using KARABO for mock HI data surveys and SKADC-3 - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)
11:20 Outreach and Communications
Outreach and Communications
11:20 - 11:35
Room: Room -101
Contributions

11:20 Communications and Outreach at SKACH – 2022 Overview & looking ahead to 2023 - Stephanie Parker (SKACH)
11:35 Instrumentation
Instrumentation
11:35 - 12:00
Room: Room -101
Contributions

11:35 Mid-band 6 project: status, outlook and roadmap to 2029 and 30+ GHz - Dominique Bovey (HES-SO/HEIG-VD)

11:45 The variable MID-band 6 filter: a key component for the MID-band 6/multi-band receiver - Mohammad Khalvati (HEIG-VD)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Data Science & Simulations
Data Science & Simulations
13:00 - 15:00
Room: Room -101
Contributions

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

13:10 Sky Simulations - Darren Reed (University of Zurich) Osman Seckin Simsek (University of Basel)

13:30 Call to Action: Integrate with Karabo - Simon Felix (FHNW) Vincenzo Timmel (FHNW)

13:55 GEAR-RT: Towards Exa-Scale Moment Based Radiative Transfer For Cosmological Simulations Using Task-Based Parallelism And Dynamic Subcycling - Mladen Ivkovic (EPFL/UniGE)

14:15 Deep learning the mapping between SKA mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations - Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

14:35 SKA SW/HW Co-design - Stefano Corda (EPFL) Manuel Stutz (FHNW)
15:00 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
15:00 - 15:20
15:20 SPH-EXA
SPH-EXA
15:20 - 16:10
Room: Room -101
Contributions

15:20 Analysis of Load Imbalance in SPH-EXA Simulations - Florina Ciorba (University of Basel)

15:40 Multiphysics/Hydrodynamical Simulations with Attached and Detached Data: Simulation of Nuclear Networks in SPH-EXA - Joseph Touzet (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay)

15:55 Fragmenting galactic disk simulations with SPH-EXA - Noah Kubli (Universität Zürich)
16:10 Computing Platforms & Infrastructure (SRCs)
Computing Platforms & Infrastructure (SRCs)
16:10 - 17:40
Room: Room -101
Contributions

16:10 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Program Update - Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

16:30 SRC Overview and Status - Emma Tolley (EPFL)

16:40 Evaluating existing science platforms for SKA development - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

16:50 The SKA Regional Centre science analysis platform vision - Arpan Das (Scientific IT & Application Support, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

17:00 Updates on Swiss SRC activities from Coral Team - Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

17:10 Working Group 6: Science User Engagement - Marc Audard (University of Geneva)
17:40

17:40 - 17:45
Room: Room -101

17:45 Apero
Apero
17:45 - 19:00
Friday, 13 January 2023
09:00 SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 1
SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 1
09:00 - 10:40
Room: Room -101
Contributions

09:00 Welcome to SKACH Science funded by Astrosignals - Daniel Schaerer (UniGe)

09:20 Halo model of reionization: SKA Forecasts results - Aurel Schneider (ICS, University of Zurich)

09:40 Synergizing 21 cm and sub millimetre surveys at the epoch of Reionization - Hamsa Padmanabhan

10:00 Late time cosmology with the SKAO - Marta Spinelli

10:20 21cm foreground removal with machine learning - Tianyue Chen (EPFL)
10:40 Coffee Break & Discussion
Coffee Break & Discussion
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 2
SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 2
11:00 - 12:30
Room: Room -101
Contributions

11:00 The formation of the Nuclear star cluster - Floor van Donkelaar

11:20 Large Scale Structures with MeerKAT - Pascale Jablonka

11:40 The asymmetry of HI discs as tracer of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution - Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
13:30 SKACH Science (Astrosignals)
SKACH Science (Astrosignals)
13:30 - 15:00
Room: Room -101
Contributions

13:30 The radio-AGN main sequence - Mark Sargent (International Space Science Institute (ISSI))

13:50 New era of heliophysics with SKA - Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

14:10 Trajectory based RFI Subtraction and Calibration - Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

14:30 MWA and ASKAP - Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)
15:00 Closing remarks
Closing remarks
15:00 - 15:05
Room: Room -101

15:05 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
15:05 - 15:30

15:30 Board Members Only
Board Members Only
15:30 - 17:30
Room: Room -101