We are pleased to invite you to participate to the fourth Swiss SKA days. During this exciting 2-day event we will discuss the ambitious SKA radio-astronomy project at the edges of advanced technology and computing.
Since March 12th, 2019, the SKA Observatory is an Inter-Governmental Organisation (alike CERN,ESA,ESO …) with a plan to build in the next years two major interferometric radio observatory located in South Africa and Western Australian:
Switzerland has currently an observer position in the SKA project and is considering from 2021 on participation as a SKAO member. The SKA Days 2019 will further discuss the Swiss interest and participation to this ambitious project.
The fourth Swiss SKA meeting will take place during June 19 to 20 at the University of Bern.
If you want to contribute or participate to the Swiss SKA days please register – here – Deadline for registration May 25, 2019.
Venue
- Welcome & Coffee breaks: Hochschulstrasse 4, University Main Building – Foyer 4th floor (just below the Cupola)
- Meeting Room: Hochschulstrasse 4, University Main Building – Cupola Room – 5th floor.
- Lunches & Apero Dinner : Building Exakte Wissenschaften (ExW). Just next door to the meeting rooms area (there will be signs)
Wifi Connection
- eduroam network
- public-unibe network
- Browser opens the page «Welcome to University of Bern Public Wireless LAN»
- Then request a temporary access code by SMS and enter the Voucher Code: ncxg-wsm
- You will receive a SMS with the login code which allows access for one month
Keynote & Agenda
Keynote speakers:
- Phil Diamond, SKA Director General
- Simon Berry, SKA Director of Corporate Strategy
- Carole Jackson, (NL) ASTRON General & Scientific Director (Cancelled)
- Fernando Camilo (South-Africa) SARAO Chief Scientist
- Kavilan Moodley (South-Africa) HIRAX Principal Investigator
- Bo Qin, (China) NOAC, Lead SKA Scientist
- Le Zhang (China) Jiatong University, Lead Tianlai Scientist
- Xavier Reymond (Switzerland) SERI
- Michel Hubner (Switzerland) SERI-ILO
The detailed agenda will be communicated end of May.
Preliminary Agenda:
Wednesday 19 June 2019
10h-12h30 Introduction Session – Chair: Daniel Schaerer
- 10h00: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL): Welcome and Logistics
- 10h10: Susanne Wampfler (University of Bern): Welcome and Presentation of the University of Bern
- 10h20: Phil Diamond [SKA Director General]: The SKA Project
- 10h50: Simon Berry [SKA]: SKA Organisation Status
- 11h10: Xavier Reymond (SERI): Views from SEFRI
- 11h30: Bo Qin (China) SKA in China
- 12h00: Fernando Camilo (SARAO, South Africa) Progress with MeerKAT
12h30-14h00 Standing Lunch
14h-15h30 Session: Towards SKA (Chair Jean-Paul Kneib)
- 14h00: Alexey Boyarsky (Leiden/EPFL) SKA and fundamental physics
- 14h20: Kavi Moodley (Durban, South Africa) The HIRAX project
- 14h40: Le Zhang (Jiatong University, China), The Tianlai Observatory
- 15h00: Tyler Bourke [SKA] SKA Science Planning
15h30-16h00 Coffee Break
Sessions: Swiss industry interest in SKA (Chair: Michel Hubner)
- 16h00: Ian Hastings (SKA) Planning for SKA procurement
- 16h20: Pascal Rochat (Orolia Switzerland & T4Science) Atomic Clocks used in Radio-Astronomy
- 16h35: Guilherme Peretti-Pezzi (CSCS) CSCS: Future development for scientific computing
- 16h50: Diego Casadei (Cosylab) Cosylab Switzerland and SKA
- 17h05:
Edmund Humenberger (Symbiotic EDA) Open source FPGA tools lead faster to better science results - 17h20: Ralf Flückiger (Diramics) Presentation of Diramics
- 17h35: Dominique Bovey (HEIG-VD) RF/microwave capabilities for radio-telescopes
18h00-19h Standing Apero along with SKA outreach activities
Thursday 20 June 2019
9h-10h30 Session on SKA Astrophysics Science (Chair: Jean-Paul Kneib)
- 9h00: Marc Audard (UniGe) The Cradle of Life
- 9h20: Susanne Wampfler (University of Bern): Astrochemistry in the ALMA era and prospects for SKA
- 9h40: Jennifer Schober (EPFL) Origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields
- 10h00: Miroslava Dessauges (Uni Geneva) Kinematics and gas in distant galaxies
10h30-11h00 Coffee break
11h00-12h40 Session on Astrophysics Science (Chair: Tyler Brouke)
- 11h00: Daniel Schaerer (UniGE) Lyman continuum escape from galaxies: recent discoveries, insight, and prospects with the SKA
- 11h20: Mona Jalilvand (UniGE) A new estimator for weak lensing using galaxies-21cm intensity mapping correlations
- 11h40: Jonathan Blazek (EPFL) Streaming baryon velocities and BAO measurements in SKA
- 12h00: Lucio Mayer (UniZH) Synergies between LISA and SKA: black hole binaries in gaseous environments and electromagnetic counterparts for luminosity distance measurements
12h30-14h00 Standing Lunch
14h00-16h00 Session on Data Science (Chair: Romain Teyssier)
- 14h00: Claudio Gheller (EPFL, Switzerland) Perspectives in HPC and machine learning for large data driven applications
- 14h20: Yves Wiaux (Edinbourgh) Parallel wide-band imaging in the SKA era
- 14h40: Sepand Kashani (EPFL): Bluebild: Least-Squares Continuous Spherical Imager for Radio-Interferometry
- Bluebild/Pypeline [https://github.com/imagingofthings]
- 15h00: Matthieu Simeoni (IBM/EPFL) Total-Variation Functional Basis Pursuit for Radio Interferometric Imaging
- 15h20: Jonas Schwammberger (FHNW) Towards distributed image reconstruction
- 15h40: Gilles Fourestey (EPFL) The benefit of GPU HPC computation
16h End of meeting
List of Registered Participants
List as of June 19, 2019
| Alexey boyarsky | Leiden university/EPFL |
| André Csillaghy | FHNW |
| Andrea Fortier | University of Bern |
| Anouk De Bast | SEFRI |
| Axel Murk | Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern |
| Bo Qin | NAOC |
| Brice-Olivier Demory | University of Bern |
| Carole Jackson | ASTRON |
| Cheng Zhao | EPFL |
| Christophe Donzelot | HEIG-VD |
| Claudio Gheller | SPC – EPFL |
| Daniel Pfenniger | University of Geneva |
| Daniel Schaerer | Geneva Observatory, University of Geneva |
| Danielle Zemp | University of Bern |
| Diego Casadei | Cosylab Switzerland GmbH |
| Dominique Bovey | HEIG-VD/IICT |
| Edmund Humenberger | Symbiotic EDA |
| Esther Linder | University of Bern, Space physics |
| Farbod Hassani | University of Geneva |
| Fernando Camilo | SARAO |
| Francesca Molendini | MDK |
| Francois Corthay | HES-SO |
| Frederic Courbin | EPFL |
| Gilles Fourestey | EPFL |
| Grazia Umana | INAF-OACt |
| Guilherme Peretti-Pezzi | CSCS / ETHZ |
| Huanyuan Shan | SHAO |
| Ian Hastings | SKA Organisation |
| Jean-Paul Kneib | EPFL |
| Jennifer Schober | Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) |
| Jonas Schwammberger | FHNW i4ds |
| Jonathan Blazek | EPFL |
| Kavilan Moodley | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| Kevin Reymond | SEFRI |
| Le Zhang | Shanghai Jiaotong University |
| Lucio Mayer | University of Zurich |
| Marc Audard | University of Geneva |
| Mark Sargent | University of Sussex |
| Martin C E Huber | ESA |
| Martin Kunz | University of Geneva |
| Martin Melchior | FHNW |
| Matthieu SIMEONI | IBM/EPFL |
| Michel Hübner | Swiss Industry Liaison Office |
| Ming Jiang | EPFL |
| Miroslava Dessauges | Geneva Observatory |
| Mona Jalilvand | University of Geneva |
| Nuri Twebti | IBM |
| Olivier Küttel | EPFL |
| Pascal Oesch | University of Geneva |
| Pascal Rochat | Orolia Switzerland & T4Science |
| Pascale Jablonka | EPFL |
| Piero Pontelandolfo | PlanetS NCCR |
| Prof. Philip Diamond | SKA Organisation |
| Ralf Flückiger | Diramics AG |
| Romain Teyssier | University of urich |
| Sepand Kashani | EPFL |
| Simon Berry | SKA Organisation |
| Simon Marcin | FHNW |
| SKA Organisation Ltd. | SKA Organisation Ltd. |
| Sophie Oblette | LASTRO |
| Susanne Wampfler | Center for Space and Habitability (CSH), University of Bern |
| Sylvère Froidevaux | T4Science SA |
| Teresa Montaruli | University of Geneva |
| Thibaut Roger | NCCR PlanetS – University of Bern |
| Ting Tan | EPFL,Ecole Polytechnique |
| Tyler Bourke | SKA Organisation |
| Vasileios Angelopoulos | EPFL |
| Xavier Reymond | SERI |
| Ysadora Charital | University of Geneva |
| Yves Revaz | EPFL |
| Yves Wiaux | Heriot-Watt Edinburgh |