Deep Surveys of the Radio Universe with SKA Pathfinders

Program

v.25/3/08 with PDF presentations

 

Registration - a registration table will be open from 8.00am – 4pm

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Monday 31st March 2008                                                                                            DAY 1

Venue:              UWA University Club Theatre Auditorium

Posters:             Banquet Hall

Session 1: WELCOMING REMARKS

09:15

.  Professor Joan Winch, Noongar elder

.  Professor Alan Robson, UWA Vice Chancellor

.  Professor Lyn Beazley, WA Chief Scientist

Session 2: TOWARDS THE SKA: PATHFINDER SCIENCE AND TECHNICAL OVERVIEW

Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith

09:40

10:10

Richard Schilizzi* The SKA and its Pathfinders - an overview

Joseph Lazio       The SKA Reference Science Mission

10:30

Ronald Nijboer*    The LOFAR Imaging Radio Telescope

11:00

Morning Tea

11:30

Dave DeBoer*       The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP): an Overview

12:00

Justin Jonas*      MeerKAT Science and Technology

12:30

Michael Kramer*    Pulsars: The Way to the SKA

13:00

Lunch

Session 2: (contd)                                          Chair: Peter Quinn

14:00

Andrei Lobanov*          High-Resolution Science with SKA Pathfinders

14:30

Naomi McClure-Griffiths  Exploring the Disk-Halo Interaction of the Milky Way with the Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow

14:50

Renˇe Kraan-Korteweg     Who is Pulling in the Zone of Avoidance? – the GA/Shapley Controversy

15:10

Aris Karastergiou        Pulsar Emission Physics with SKA Pathfinders

15:30

Afternoon Tea

16:00

Tim Cornwell*      Computing Challenges for SKA Pathfinders

16:30

Marco de Vos*      Engineering Challenges for SKA Pathfinders

17:00

Close of Day 1

17:00-

19:00

Welcome Reception – Lower Foyer and Outside

 

*Invited talk

 

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Tuesday 1st April 2008                                                                                                   DAY 2

Venue:              UWA University Club Theatre Auditorium

Posters:              Banquet Hall

Session 3: PATHFINDER PROJECTS                                        Chair: Richard Schilizzi

09:00

Ken Kellermann*    Deep Surveys with the EVLA: Opportunities and Challenges

09:30

James Cordes*      The SKA as a Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope

10:00

Mike Garrett       E-LOFAR and Deep Field Surveys

10:20

Timothy Garn       Deep Surveys at 610 MHz to probe the FIR/Radio Correlation to z~1

10:40

Simon Johnston     Science with ASKAP

11:00

Morning Tea

Session 3: (contd)                                        Chair: Rachel Webster

11:30

Leo Blitz*        The Allen Telescope Array

12:00

Colin Lonsdale*   The Murchison Widefield Array

12:30

Rendong Nan*      Project FAST: Five hundred metre aperture Spherical Radio Telescope

13:00

Lunch

 MWA Phase 2 NCRIS breakout session (Webster)

Session 3 (contd):                                                                        Chair: Steven Tingay

14:20

Sparkler talks    Poster presenters

14:40

Andy Faulkner*    Aperture Arrays

15:10

Joseph Lazio*     Surveys at Long Wavelengths – Towards the LWA

15.40

Afternoon Tea

16:10

Marc Verheijen*   APERTIF: current status and proposed surveys

16:40

Geoff Bower*      Wide-Field Radio Transient Surveys

17:10

Close of Day 2

18:00-

19:00

Public Lecture in the UWA Octagon Theatre:

Professor Shri Kulkarni ŅAn Explosion of Cosmic ExplosionsÓ

 *Invited talk

 

 

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Wednesday 2nd April 2008                                                                                         DAY 3

Venue:               UWA University Club Theatre Auditorium

Posters:              No poster session today (Banquet Hall unavailable)

Session 4: PATHFINDER SYNERGIES                                                 Chair: Ken Freeman

09:00

Garth Illingworth* ELTs, STs and High Redshift Galaxies

09:30

Karl Glazebrook*   From HI to HII: enabling deep and wide optical redshift surveys matched to ASKAP

10:00

Matt Jarvis        Multi-wavelength surveys; synergies with the SKA and its pathfinders

10:20

Andrew Hopkins     Galaxy and Matter Assembly

10:40

Stefan Keller      SkyMapper and SKA Pathfinders

11:00

Morning Tea

Session 5: COSMOLOGY AND SIMULATIONS                               Chair: Robert Braun

11:30

Erwin De Blok*     Galaxy Dynamics and Pathfinder Science

12:00

Stuart Wyithe*     Epoch of Reionization Studies with SKA Pathfinders

12:30

Ilian Iliev        The Dark Ages and the Epoch of Reionization: What do State-of-the-Art Simulations Tell Us?

12:50

Asantha Cooray     Cosmological studies with low-frequency radio interferometers and 21-cm line during and prior to reionization

13:10

Lunch                 

Session 5: (contd)                                          Chair: Ilana Feain

14:10

Chris Blake*       Cosmology with SKA Pathfinders

14:40

Steve Rawlings*    Simulating the Radio Universe

15:10

Richard Wilman     SKADS Simulated Skies: the semi-empirical extragalactic simulation

15.30

Afternoon Tea           

Session 5: (contd)                                        Chair: Elaine Sadler

16:00

Martin Meyer       Simulating the HI Universe

16:20

Attila Popping     The Simulated HI Sky

16:40

Danail Obreschkow  The HI mass Tully-Fisher Relation

17:00

Close of Day 3

19:15 for 19:30

Conference dinner at Matilda Bay Restaurant (by ticket only)

*Invited talk

 

Registration - a registration table will be open from 8.00am – 9.00am+breaks

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Thursday 3rd April 2008                                                                                                 DAY 4

Venue:               UWA University Club Theatre Auditorium

Posters:              Banquet Hall

Session 6: TOWARDS HIGH ENERGY AND HIGH REDSHIFT    Chair: Justin Jonas

09:00

Shri Kulkarni*    The High-Energy Universe

09:30

Matthew Bailes    Fast Transient and pulsar Detection with large-scale synthesis arrays from the pathfinders to the SKA

09:50

Jasper Wall*      AGNs and SKA Pathfinders

10:20

Isabella Prandoni A view of the sub-mJy radio population: the AGN component

10:40

Elaine Sadler     Probing the low surface-brightness radio sky

11:00

Morning Tea                                 Chair: Tom Oosterloo

11:30

Paul Bourke       ASKAP Site Visualisation

11:40

Enno Middelberg   VLBA observations of 96 sources in the Chandra Deep Field South

12:00

Seungyoup Chi     Deep, wide-field global VLBI observations of the HDF-N and HFF

12:20

Neeraj Gupta      GMRT survey of 21-cm absorption in the intermediate redshift DLA candidates

12:40

Philip Lah        HI in Galaxies at Redshifts 0.1 to 1.0: Current and Future Observations using Optical Redshifts for HI Coadding

13:00

Lunch                                      Chair: Simon Johnston

14:00

Bryan Gaensler*   The Magnetic Universe Probed with SKA Pathfinders

14:30

Jeroen Stil       The Nature of Faint Polarized Radio Sources

14:50

Maik Wolleben     The Global Magneto-Ionic Medium Survey

15:10

Joern Geisbuesch  Inferring source polarisation properties from SKA observations

15.30

Afternoon Tea                                                                   Chair: Rendong Nan

16:00

George Heald         The Westerbork SINGS Survey: Faraday Rotation and Magnetic Fields

16:20

Thijs van der Hulst  Surveying low surface brightness HI and the prospects for SKA

16:40

Hayley Bignall       Statistics of Interstellar Scintillation from the MASIV Survey: Implications for SKA Pathfinder Surveys

17:00

Close of Day 4

17:00-

19:00

Jazz Sundowner at University Club (ground level foyer/outside)

*Invited talk

 

Registration - a registration table will be open from 8.00am – 9.00am+breaks

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Friday 4th April 2008                                                                                                        DAY 5

Venue:               UWA University Club Theatre Auditorium

Posters:              Banquet Hall

Session 7: PROGRESS IN INSTRUMENTATION, SCIENCE AND ALGORITHMS

Chair: Peter Hall

09:00

Bruce Veidt*          Focal-Plane Array Development in Canada

09:30

Marianna Ivashina*    Characterization of Efficiency, System NoiseTemperature and Sensitivity of Focal Plane Array Receiving Systems

10:00

Wim van Cappellen     Initial results of the digital focal plane array demonstrator for APERTIF

10:20

Sanjay Bhatnagar*     Low-Frequency Imaging Challenges with SKA Pathfinders

10:50

Morning Tea

Session 7: (contd)                                        Chair: Tim Cornwell

11:20

Bill Cotton*          The Effect of the Ionosphere on SKA Pathfinders

11:50

Sarod Yatawatta*      Calibration Challenges: Lessons Learnt from LOFAR

12:20

Huib Intema           A New Method for Ionospheric Calibration of Low Frequency Arrays

12:40

James Anderson        LOFAR Ionospheric Calibration for Surveys and Cosmic Magnetism

13:00

Lunch

Session 7: (contd)                                          Chair: Dave DeBoer

14:00

Justin Kasper*        Solar and Heliospheric Science with SKA Pathfinders

14:30

V.N. Pandey           Initial Deep All Sky Images with LOFAR

14:50

Peter Hall*           PrepSKA: A Regional ContributorÕs Perspective

15:20

Mike Warren           Peta-scale Astronomical Data Processing, Analysis and Modeling

15.40

Afternoon Tea

16:10

Ron Ekers             Conference Summary

16:20

Close of conference

*Invited talkj

 

Posters

 

 

 

 

First Author

Title

R. Auld

HI source detection in the era of the SKA

D. Backer

Calibration and Imaging Results from the Precision Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization

T. Colegate

Science Context for Cost and Performance Modelling of the Square Kilometre Array

D. Coward

The frontier of transient astronomy: new data analysis tools for probing the Universe with gamma ray bursts

S. Croft

Wide-Field Extragalactic Radio Astronomy with the Allen Telescope Array

A. Datta

VLA-COSMOS Survey - an update

R. Deane

Sub-kpc scale observations of HI and star formation in the nearby giant LSB galaxy NGC 1512

S. Frey

Decaparsec-scale morphology of the most distant (known to date) radio

QSO J1427+3312 at z=6.12

O. Giersch

CME Indices from MWA Data

G. Giovannini

Non thermal emission in galaxy clusters

A. Green

The SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) Project

C. Harris

GPU FX Spectrometer using CUDA

A. Hopkins

Deep ASKAP observations of the GAMA survey area

M. Huynh

Faint radio sources in the FIDEL Spitzer Legacy Survey

M. Johnston-Hollitt

Understanding the radio properties of clusters of galaxies with future radio telescopes

M. Kuniyoshi

Simulations for LWA Station Beams

L. Leeuw

Synergies of MeerKAT Surveys with Selected Planned and Future Surveys

F. Levrier

The S3 databases and an application to the detection of HI at high redshift with the SKA

A. Lopez-Sanchez

The Local Volume HI Survey

T. Mauch

Investigating the sub-mJy radio source population with the WSRT

S. Schediwy

Increasing the survey speed of aperture arrays via direct front-end amplifier cooling: simulation, experimentation and verification with the 2-PAD demonstrator.

N. Seymour

Disentangling AGN and Star Formation in Deep Extragalactic Surveys

B. Stappers

Pulsar Surveys with LOFAR

G. Sundaram

MEqTrees Aperture Array Simulations and CPU Benchmarking

I. van Bemmel

Ionospheric limitations for LOFAR and SKA

W. van Driel

NIBLES: a census of SDSS galaxies in the local volume

J. van Leeuwen

Scalable computing hardware for pulsar science

D. Vir Lal

Array configuration studies for the SKA - Implementation of figures of merit based on Spatial Dynamic Range

M. Whiting

From ASKAP to the Astronomer: Source Finding and Cataloguing

K. Zarb Adami

Scaleable Signal Processing Architectures for All-Digital Aperture Arrays