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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
Presentations - Available to conference
participants only; copyright remains with authors
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Monday 31st March 2008 DAY
1 |
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Venue: UWA
University Club Theatre Auditorium Posters: Banquet
Hall |
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Session 1: WELCOMING REMARKS |
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09:15 |
. Professor Joan Winch, Noongar elder . Professor Alan Robson, UWA Vice
Chancellor . Professor Lyn Beazley, WA Chief
Scientist |
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Session 2: TOWARDS THE SKA: PATHFINDER SCIENCE AND
TECHNICAL OVERVIEW Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith |
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09:40 10:10 |
Richard Schilizzi* The SKA and its Pathfinders - an
overview Joseph Lazio The SKA Reference Science Mission |
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10:30 |
Ronald Nijboer* The LOFAR
Imaging Radio Telescope |
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11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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11:30 |
Dave DeBoer* The Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP):
an Overview |
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12:00 |
Justin Jonas*
MeerKAT
Science and Technology |
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12:30 |
Michael Kramer* Pulsars: The Way
to the SKA |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
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Session 2: (contd)
Chair: Peter Quinn |
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14:00 |
Andrei Lobanov* High-Resolution
Science with SKA Pathfinders |
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14:30 |
Naomi McClure-Griffiths Exploring the Disk-Halo Interaction of
the Milky Way with the Telescopes of Today and Tomorrow |
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14:50 |
Renˇe Kraan-Korteweg Who is Pulling in the Zone of Avoidance?
– the GA/Shapley Controversy |
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15:10 |
Aris Karastergiou Pulsar Emission Physics with SKA
Pathfinders |
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15:30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:00 |
Tim Cornwell*
Computing
Challenges for SKA Pathfinders |
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16:30 |
Marco de Vos*
Engineering
Challenges for SKA Pathfinders |
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17:00 |
Close of Day 1 |
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17:00- 19:00 |
Welcome Reception – Lower Foyer and
Outside |
*Invited
talk
Registration
- a
registration table will be open from 8.00am – 9.00am+breaks
Presentations - Available to conference
participants only; copyright remains with authors
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Tuesday 1st April 2008 DAY
2 |
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Venue: UWA
University Club Theatre Auditorium Posters: Banquet
Hall |
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Session 3: PATHFINDER PROJECTS
Chair: Richard
Schilizzi |
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09:00 |
Ken Kellermann* Deep Surveys
with the EVLA: Opportunities and Challenges |
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09:30 |
James Cordes*
The SKA as
a Radio Synoptic Survey Telescope |
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10:00 |
Mike Garrett E-LOFAR and Deep Field Surveys |
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10:20 |
Timothy Garn Deep Surveys at 610 MHz to probe the
FIR/Radio Correlation to z~1 |
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10:40 |
Simon Johnston
Science
with ASKAP |
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11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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Session 3: (contd) Chair:
Rachel Webster |
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11:30 |
Leo Blitz* The Allen Telescope Array |
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12:00 |
Colin Lonsdale* The Murchison
Widefield Array |
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12:30 |
Rendong Nan*
Project
FAST: Five hundred metre aperture Spherical Radio Telescope |
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13:00 |
Lunch |
MWA Phase 2 NCRIS breakout session (Webster) |
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Session 3 (contd):
Chair: Steven Tingay |
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14:20 |
Sparkler talks Poster presenters |
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14:40 |
Andy Faulkner* Aperture Arrays |
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15:10 |
Joseph Lazio*
Surveys
at Long Wavelengths – Towards the LWA |
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15.40 |
Afternoon Tea |
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16:10 |
Marc Verheijen* APERTIF: current
status and proposed surveys |
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16:40 |
Geoff Bower*
Wide-Field
Radio Transient Surveys |
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17:10 |
Close of Day 2 |
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18:00- 19:00 |
Public Lecture in the UWA Octagon Theatre: Professor Shri Kulkarni ŅAn Explosion of Cosmic
ExplosionsÓ |
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*Invited
talk
Registration - a registration table will be
open from 8.00am – 9.00am+breaks
Presentations - Available to conference
participants only; copyright remains with authors
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Wednesday 2nd April 2008 DAY
3 |
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Venue: UWA
University Club Theatre Auditorium Posters: No
poster session today (Banquet Hall unavailable) |
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Session 4: PATHFINDER SYNERGIES
Chair: Ken Freeman |
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09:00 |
Garth Illingworth* ELTs, STs and High Redshift
Galaxies |
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09:30 |
Karl Glazebrook* From HI to HII:
enabling deep and wide optical redshift surveys matched to ASKAP |
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10:00 |
Matt Jarvis Multi-wavelength surveys; synergies
with the SKA and its pathfinders |
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10:20 |
Andrew Hopkins
Galaxy
and Matter Assembly |
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10:40 |
Stefan Keller
SkyMapper
and SKA Pathfinders |
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11:00 |
Morning Tea |
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Session 5: COSMOLOGY AND SIMULATIONS
Chair: Robert Braun |
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11:30 |
Erwin De Blok*
Galaxy
Dynamics and Pathfinder Science |
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12:00 |
Stuart Wyithe*
Epoch of
Reionization Studies with SKA Pathfinders |
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12:30 |
Ilian Iliev The Dark Ages and the Epoch of
Reionization: What do State-of-the-Art Simulations Tell Us? |
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12:50 |
Asantha Cooray
Cosmological
studies with low-frequency radio interferometers and 21-cm line during and
prior to reionization |
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13:10 |
Lunch |
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Session 5: (contd)
Chair: Ilana Feain |
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14:10 |
Chris Blake* Cosmology with SKA Pathfinders |
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14:40 |
Steve Rawlings* Simulating the
Radio Universe |
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15:10 |
Richard Wilman
SKADS
Simulated Skies: the semi-empirical extragalactic simulation |
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15.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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Session 5: (contd)
Chair: Elaine Sadler |
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16:00 |
Martin Meyer Simulating the HI Universe |
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16:20 |
Attila Popping
The
Simulated HI Sky |
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16:40 |
Danail Obreschkow The HI mass Tully-Fisher Relation |
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17:00 |
Close of Day 3 |
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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
Presentations - Available to conference
participants only; copyright remains with authors
*Invited
talk
Registration - a registration table will be
open from 8.00am – 9.00am+breaks
Presentations - Available to conference participants
only; copyright remains with authors
*Invited
talkj
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First Author |
Title |
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R. Auld |
HI source detection in the era of the SKA |
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D. Backer |
Calibration and Imaging Results from the Precision
Array to Probe the Epoch of Reionization |
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T. Colegate |
Science Context for Cost and Performance
Modelling of the Square Kilometre Array |
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D. Coward |
The frontier of transient astronomy: new data
analysis tools for probing the Universe with gamma ray bursts |
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S. Croft |
Wide-Field Extragalactic Radio Astronomy with
the Allen Telescope Array |
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A. Datta |
VLA-COSMOS Survey - an update |
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R. Deane |
Sub-kpc scale observations of HI and star formation
in the nearby giant LSB galaxy NGC 1512 |
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S. Frey |
Decaparsec-scale morphology of the most distant
(known to date) radio QSO J1427+3312 at z=6.12 |
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O. Giersch |
CME Indices from MWA Data |
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G. Giovannini |
Non thermal emission in galaxy clusters |
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A. Green |
The SKA Molonglo Prototype (SKAMP) Project |
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C. Harris |
GPU FX Spectrometer using CUDA |
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A. Hopkins |
Deep ASKAP observations of the GAMA survey area |
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M. Huynh |
Faint radio sources in the FIDEL Spitzer Legacy
Survey |
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M. Johnston-Hollitt |
Understanding the radio properties of clusters
of galaxies with future radio telescopes |
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M. Kuniyoshi |
Simulations for LWA Station Beams |
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L. Leeuw |
Synergies of MeerKAT Surveys with Selected
Planned and Future Surveys |
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F. Levrier |
The S3 databases and an application to the
detection of HI at high redshift with the SKA |
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A. Lopez-Sanchez |
The Local Volume HI Survey |
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T. Mauch |
Investigating the sub-mJy radio source
population with the WSRT |
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S. Schediwy |
Increasing the survey speed of aperture arrays
via direct front-end amplifier cooling: simulation, experimentation and
verification with the 2-PAD demonstrator. |
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N. Seymour |
Disentangling AGN and Star Formation in Deep
Extragalactic Surveys |
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B. Stappers |
Pulsar Surveys with LOFAR |
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G. Sundaram |
MEqTrees Aperture Array Simulations and CPU
Benchmarking |
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I. van Bemmel |
Ionospheric limitations for LOFAR and SKA |
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W. van Driel |
NIBLES: a census of SDSS galaxies in the local
volume |
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J. van Leeuwen |
Scalable computing hardware for pulsar science |
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D. Vir Lal |
Array configuration studies for the SKA -
Implementation of figures of merit based on Spatial Dynamic Range |
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M. Whiting |
From ASKAP to the Astronomer: Source Finding
and Cataloguing |
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K. Zarb Adami |
Scaleable Signal Processing Architectures for
All-Digital Aperture Arrays |