SKACH Winter Meeting

12 Jan 2023, 09:00 → 13 Jan 2023, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

Room -101 (University of Basel, Alte Universität)

Joanna Jermini-Howard, Carolyn Crichton

We are pleased to invite you to participate to the SKACH Winter Meeting hosted by our collaborators at the University of Basel. This event will focus on consortium-wide updates, and updates from the five SKACH programs: Comms & Outreach, Instrumentation, Computing Platforms & Infrastructure, Data Science & Simulations and Science (AstroSignals).

SKACH is primarily funded by the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI), and is responsible for managing the Swiss contribution to the SKAO. SKACH also leverages funding from external grants such as AstroSignals SINERGIA, SNF Bilateral, PASC, InnoSuisse, and Horizon Europe.

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

 

 

Thursday, 12 January

09:30 → 10:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee

10:00 → 10:40 Thursday Morning: Welcome and SKACH Overview

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

10:00 Welcome to the SKACH Winter Meeting

Speaker: Florina Ciorba (University of Basel)

2023_01_12_Consortium_Winter_MTG_Welcome.pdf

10:15 Q&A

10:20 SKACH Year in Review and Plans for 2023

Speaker: Ms Carolyn Crichton

SKACH Consortium 2022 Review and a Look Ahead.pdf

10:35 Q&A

10:40 → 11:20 Thursday Morning: SKA Data Science Challenge 3

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

10:40 SKA Data Challenge 3: Foreground removal update from SKACH team

Speaker: Dr Michele Bianco (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, EPFL)

WinterSwissSKADay_SDCa_230112.pdf

10:55 Q&A

11:00 Using KARABO for mock HI data surveys and SKADC-3

Speaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

mock_HI_and_SKADC-3.pdf

11:15 Q&A

11:20 → 11:35 Thursday Morning: Outreach and Communications

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

11:20 Communications and Outreach at SKACH – 2022 Overview & looking ahead to 2023

Speaker: Stephanie Parker (SKACH)

Parker_SKA Winter Meeting Pres_OutreachComms.pdf

11:30 Q&A

11:35 → 12:00 Thursday Morning: Instrumentation

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

11:35 Mid-band 6 project: status, outlook and roadmap to 2029 and 30+ GHz

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

20230111_SKACH_winter_meeting_Instrumentation_program_status_DBE.pdf

11:45 The variable MID-band 6 filter: a key component for the MID-band 6/multi-band receiver

Speaker: Mr Mohammad Khalvati (HEIG-VD)

SKACH_BandPassFilter_Design_MKI.pdf

11:55 Q&A

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 15:00 Thursday Afternoon: Data Science & Simulations

Convener: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

13:00 Data Science & Simulations Program Overview

Speaker: Simon Felix (FHNW)

2023-01-12 skach-datascience-overview.pdf

13:05 Q&A

13:10 Sky Simulations

Speakers: Darren Reed (University of Zurich), Osman Seckin Simsek (University of Basel)

reed_simsek_jan2023.pdf

13:15 Discussion: Sky Simulations and Science

Topic: What do people want to simulate for the SKA and what will these simulations be used for?

13:30 Call to Action: Integrate with Karabo

Speakers: Simon Felix (FHNW), Vincenzo Timmel (FHNW)

2023-01-12 SKACH Winter Meeting - Call to Action - Integrate with Karabo.pdf

13:40 Discussion: Integrating with Karabo

13:55 GEAR-RT: Towards Exa-Scale Moment Based Radiative Transfer For Cosmological Simulations Using Task-Based Parallelism And Dynamic Subcycling

Speaker: Mladen Ivkovic (EPFL/UniGE)

2023_01_12_SKACH_Ivkovic.pdf

14:05 Q&A

14:15 Deep learning the mapping between SKA mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations

Speaker: Dr Philipp Denzel (Centre for Artificial Intelligence, ZHAW)

Deep learning the mapping between SKA mock observations and hydrodynamical simulations

DL_mapping_SKA_mocks_2n4_hydro_PhilippDenzel.pdf

14:25 Q&A

14:35 SKA SW/HW Co-design

Speakers: Mr Stefano Corda (EPFL), Mr Manuel Stutz (FHNW)

codesign_120123_SKACH_wintermeeting.pptx

14:50 Q&A

15:00 → 15:20 Coffee Break & Discussion

15:20 → 16:10 Thursday Afternoon: SPH-EXA

Convener: Ruben Cabezon (University of Basel)

15:20 Analysis of Load Imbalance in SPH-EXA Simulations

Speaker: Prof. Florina Ciorba (University of Basel)

2023-01-12-SPH-EXA-LIB-final.pdf

15:35 Q&A

15:40 Multiphysics/Hydrodynamical Simulations with Attached and Detached Data: Simulation of Nuclear Networks in SPH-EXA

Speaker: Joseph Touzet (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris-Saclay)

nuclear_network_presentation (6).pdf

15:50 Q&A

15:55 Fragmenting galactic disk simulations with SPH-EXA

Speaker: Noah Kubli (Universität Zürich)

Skach_new.pdf

16:05 Q&A

16:10 → 17:40 Thursday Afternoon: Computing Platforms & Infrastructure (SRCs)

Convener: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

16:10 Computing Platforms and Infrastructure - Program Update

Speaker: Victor Holanda (ETHZ/CSCS)

skach_winter_meeting.pdf

16:25 Q&A

16:30 SRC Overview and Status

Speaker: Emma Tolley (EPFL)

SRCnet_Jan2023.pdf

16:40 Evaluating existing science platforms for SKA development

Speaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

science_platforms_talk_rohit.pdf

16:50 The SKA Regional Centre science analysis platform vision

Speaker: Dr Arpan Das (Scientific IT & Application Support, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

SRCnet.pdf

17:00 Updates on Swiss SRC activities from Coral Team

Speaker: Pablo Llopis Sanmillan (EPFL)

Updates on Swiss SRC activities from Coral Team.pdf

17:10 Working Group 6: Science User Engagement

Speaker: Marc Audard (University of Geneva)

skach_mau_wg6_20230112.pdf

17:20 Discussion: What should SRC development look like in Switzerland

What features does Switzerland want to contribute to for the SRCNet development? ie archive, data management, cloud computing, science platform & tool integration, benchmarking?
Where should we focus effort on the prototyping teams ( related to above)
How can we connect the other WG activities in SRCNet development?

17:40 → 17:45 Closing remarks

Convener: Carolyn Crichton

17:45 → 19:00 Apero

Friday, 13 January

09:00 → 10:40 Friday Morning: SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 1

Convener: Devin Crichton (ETH Zurich)

09:00 Welcome to SKACH Science funded by Astrosignals

Speaker: Daniel Schaerer (UniGe)

2023_overview_AstroSignals_schaerer.pdf

09:15 Q&A

09:20 Halo model of reionization: SKA Forecasts results

Speaker: Prof. Aurel Schneider (ICS, University of Zurich)

BaselSKACH2023.pdf

09:35 Q&A

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

Speaker: Hamsa Padmanabhan

hamsa_talk_basel_jan2023.pdf

09:55 Q&A

10:00 Late time cosmology with the SKAO

Speaker: Marta Spinelli

SKACH-Days-Jan23.pdf

10:15 Q&A

10:20 21cm foreground removal with machine learning

Speaker: Tianyue Chen (EPFL)

SKACH_Winter_Update.pdf

10:35 Q&A

10:40 → 11:00 Coffee Break & Discussion

11:00 → 12:30 Friday Morning: SKACH Science (Astrosignals) - Session 2

Convener: Mirka Dessauges (UniGe)

11:00 The formation of the Nuclear star cluster

Speaker: Floor van Donkelaar

SKAdays_ptt_withanimations.pptx

11:15 Q&A

11:20 Large Scale Structures with MeerKAT

Speaker: Pascale Jablonka

PJablonka.pdf

11:35 Q&A

11:40 The asymmetry of HI discs as tracer of the baryonic physics of galaxy evolution

Speaker: Jindra Gensior (Institute for Computational Science, University of Zurich)

Gensior_SKACH_WinterMeeting2023.pdf

11:55 Q&A

12:00 Discussion: Astrosignals planned, ongoing, and foreseen synergies

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Friday Afternoon: SKACH Science (Astrosignals)

Convener: Marta Spinelli

13:30 The radio-AGN main sequence

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

presMTSargent_130123.pdf

13:45 Q&A

13:50 New era of heliophysics with SKA

Speaker: Rohit Sharma (FHNW, Windisch)

heliophysics_with_SKA.pptx

14:05 Q&A

14:10 Trajectory based RFI Subtraction and Calibration

Speaker: Chris Finlay (UNIGE)

Trajectory_Based_RFI_Subtraction_and_Calibration_Slides.pdf

14:25 Q&A

14:30 MWA and ASKAP

Speaker: Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL)

MWA-ASKAP_CH.pdf

14:45 Discussion: MWA & ASKAP

Possible Swiss Scientific Interest in SKAO-Low precursors

15:00 → 15:05 Friday Afternoon: Closing remarks

15:05 → 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 → 17:30 Board Meeting: Board Members Only

Convener: Carolyn Crichton