The second Swiss SKA meeting took place on May 22 and 23 at EPFL, Lausanne.
Agenda:
Monday 22 May 2017
14h-18h — Plenary Session – Chair of Session: Olivier Kuttel
- 14h00: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL, Swiss SKA lead): Welcome
- 14h15: Andreas Mortensen (EPFL, VP Research): SKA at EPFL
- 14h30: Simon Berry (SKA Director of Policy Development): SKA Status
- 15h00: Nick Rees (Head of SKA Computing and Software): SKA Computing and Software Development
- 15h30: Coffee Break
- 16h00: Fernando Camilo (SKA South-Africa – Meerkat Chief Scientist – REMOTE): MeerKat Status and First Observation
- 16h30: Alexandre Refregier (ETHZ): Intensity Mapping in Radio [Swiss-South-Africa Bilateral projects]
- 17h00: Yves Wiaux (EPFL/Edinburgh): Advanced radio imaging reconstruction [Swiss-South-Africa Bilateral projects]
- 17h30 Ton Engbersen (IBM Research Zurich): IBM and the DOME project
Tuesday 23 May 2017
9h-12h30 — Plenary Session – Chair of Session: Jean-Paul Kneib
- 9h00: Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL): Welcome
- 9h10: Saleem Zaroubi (Groningen): LOFAR Status and the Epoch of Reionization
- 9h30: Mirka Dessauges (UniGE): ALMA Observatory and Galaxy Science
- 9h50: Romain Teyssier (UniZH): SKA Science Data Simulation
- 10h10:Coffee Break
- 10h40: Daniel Schaerer (UniGE): The H2020 AENEAS project
- 11h00: Paul Hurley (IBM Zurich): Bluebild imaging for the SKA and more
- 11h20: Michael Bohlen (UniZH): Big-data and the ASKAP use case
- 11h40: Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS): Data, Computing and Software services for Science
- 12h00: Vittoria Rezzonico (EPFL): HPC at EPFL
14h-17h — Parallel Sessions
SKA Science (Moderation by Jean-Paul Kneib & Daniel Schaerer) – Salle MXG312
- 14h Daniel Schaerer (UniGE) & Jean-Paul Kneib (EPFL) Welcome and scope of this session
- 14h05 Mark Sargent (U. of Sussex): Tracing the cosmic star-formation history and ISM content of galaxies with the SKA
- 14h30 Frederic Courbin (EPFL): Gravitational Lensing with the SKA
- 14h55 Pascale Jablonka (EPFL): Galaxy evolution at all cosmic densities
- 15h15 Pascal Oesch (UniGE): Scrutinizing the Epoch of Reionization
- 15h30 Coffee Break
- 16h00 General Discussion on future projects with BINGO, ALMA, ASKAP, MEERKAT and SKA
SKA Algorithm and HPC needs (Moderation by Nick Rees & Paul Hurley) – Room MXF-1
- 14h: Nick Rees (SKA) & Paul Hurley (IBM): Welcome and scope of this session
- 14h05: Gabriele Torre (FHNW) Non-negative Matrix Factorization with Random Projection: an efficient data decomposition algorithm for SKA?
- 14h30: Claudio Gheller: (CSCS): Data and HPC: ASKAP and CSCS experiences
- 14h:55 Mathieu Simeoni (EPFL/IBM): Bluebild: a Stable, Accurate and Efficient Imager for Radio Astronomy
- 15h10: Kartik Vijay (EPFL/Edinburgh): Fourier dimensionality reduction model for big data Radio Interferometry imaging
- 15h30 Coffee Break
- 16h00: Hanjie Pan (EPFL): Finding sources in radio astronomy using FRI
- 16h20: Vasilis Angelopoulous (EPFL): Galaxy shape measurement through sparse approache
- 16h40: General Discussion – Projects to move forward.
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Participants list:
| Firstname | Name | Institute |
| Vasilis | Angelopoulos | EPFL |
| David | Atienza | ESL-EPFL |
| Simon | Berry | SKA |
| Jonathan | Blazek | EPFL |
| Michael | Bohlen | UniZH |
| Vivien | Bonvin | EPFL |
| Michel | Caillat | CNRS |
| Fernando | Camillo | SKA-SA |
| Antonio | Cava | UniGE |
| Frederic | Courbin | EPFL |
| Andre | Csillaghy | FHNW |
| Michele | De Lorenzi | CSCS |
| Stephane | Decoutere | EPFL |
| Mirka | Dessauges | UniGE |
| Ton | Engbersen | IBM Zurich |
| Simon | Felix | FHNW |
| Claudio | Gheller | ETHZ-CSCS |
| Claudio | Gorgoni | EPFL |
| Nezihe Merve | Gurel | IBM Zurich |
| Leanne | Guy | UniGE |
| Loic | Hausammann | EPFL |
| Jan | Hesthaven | EPFL |
| Myriam | Hofer | ACCZ |
| Paul | Hurley | IBM |
| Arman | Iranfar | ESL-EPFL |
| Mathilde | Jauzac | EPFL/Durham |
| Vijay | Kartik | EPFL |
| Sepand | Kashani | EPFL/IBM |
| Baptiste | Klein | EPFL |
| Jean-Paul | Kneib | EPFL |
| Olivier | Kuttel | EPFL |
| Etienne | Lyard | UniGE |
| Martin | Melchior | FHNW |
| Teressa | Montaruli | UniGE |
| Bruno | Moor | SEFRI |
| Andreas | Mortensen | EPFL |
| Pierre | North | EPFL |
| Pascal | Oesch | UniGE |
| Hanjie | Pan | EPFL |
| Nick | Rees | SKA |
| Alexandre | Refregier | ETHZ |
| Yves | Revaz | EPFL |
| Xavier | Reymond | SEFRI |
| Vittoria | Rezzonico | EPFL |
| Elena | Ricciardeli | EPFL |
| Ewan | Roche | EPFL |
| Daniele | Rod | EPFL-SA |
| Christoph | Scahefer | EPFL |
| Daniel | Schaerer | UniGE |
| Mark | Searjent | U of Sussex |
| Patrick | Segu | BrainServe SA |
| Matthieu | Simeoni | EPFL/IBM |
| Romain | Teyssier | UniZH |
| Gabriele | Torre | FHNW |
| Nuri | Twebti | IBM |
| Olivier | Verscheure | EPFL |
| Martin | Vetterli | EPFL |
| Roland | Walter | UniGE |
| Yves | Wiaux | EPFL/Heriot-Watt Univ. |
| Saleem | Zaroubi | Groningen |