PHISCC 2016: Upgrading our HI Toolkit
Programme
(31/01/16)
| Monday 1 February | |
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| Registration from 8:30 at SAAO Auditorium | |
| Session 1:
Updates on SKA pathfinder Facilities (technical) and Software (Pipelines / data reduction / calibration / RFI mitigation. What is being/has been done?) |
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| Session Chair: Sarah Blyth | |
| 9:00 – 9:15 | Welcome by UCT Astronomy Head of Department (Prof. Patrick Woudt) and Dean of the Faculty of Science (Prof. Anton le Roex) |
| 9:15 – 9:30 | MeerKAT Willem Esterhuyse |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | MeerKAT HI Line Mode: Sharmila Goedhart |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | MeerKAT HI Pipeline: Tom Mauch |
| 10:00 – 10:25 | ASKAP: Ian Heywood |
| 10:25 – 10:50 | APERTIF: Tom Oosterloo |
| 10:50 – 11:15 | JVLA/CHILES: D.J. Pisano |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Coffee break |
| Session 2:
Survey Updates (What are the main things still to be done / what do the survey teams still need to prepare?) |
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| Session Chair: Claude Carignan | |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | MHONGOOSE: Erwin de Blok |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | FORNAX: Brad Frank |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | WALLABY: Lister Staveley-Smith |
| 12:30 – 12:45 | DINGO : Attila Popping |
| 12:45 – 13:45 | LUNCH |
| Session 2 continued… | |
| Session Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith | |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | LADUMA: Benne Holwerda |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | MIGHTEE: Natasha Maddox |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | APERTIF SURVEYS: Marc Verheijen |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | CHILES: Kelley Hess |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | FLASH: James Allison |
| 15:00 – 15:15 | MALS: Neeraj Gupta |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Coffee break |
| 15:45 – 16:05 | SKA HI Science Working Group Update: Martin Meyer |
| 16:05 – 16:30 | Discussion |
| 17:00 | PHISCC Business Meeting |
| Tuesday 2 February | |
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| Session 1:
Visualisation |
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| Session Chair: Tom Oosterloo | |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Thijs van der Hulst: Visualisation in Spectral Line Astronomy |
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Russ Taylor: Visual Analytics of Remote Big Data in Radio Astronomy |
| 9:40 – 9:55 | Davide Punzo: SlicerAstro, a 3-D interactive viewer |
| 9:55 – 10:15 | Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro: The X3D path applied to disentangling the HI component in Compact Groups of galaxies |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | J.T. Malarecki: Organisation and Exploration of Very Large Imagery Data in the SKA |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 2:
HI Data Analysis Techniques, Methods & Tools |
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| Session Chair: Marc Verheijen | |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Tobias Westmeier: 3-D source-finding challenges in the era of big data |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Nadine Giese: Non-parametric characterization of HI in galaxies |
| 11:30 – 11:45 | Toby Brown: HI Stacking and the Effect of Environment on Gas Content |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Barbara Catinella: Galaxy evolution with HI spectral stacking |
| 12:00 – 12:15 | Julia Healy: HI Stacking: Software and Applications |
| 12:15 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| Session 2 continued… | |
| Session Chair: Erwin de Blok | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Kristine Spekkens: Measuring disk galaxy kinematics from future HI surveys |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Se-Heon Oh: 2D Bayesian Automated Tilted-ring Fitter (2DBAT) |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Gyula Jozsa: Fully Automated TiRiFiC |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Toky Randriamampandry: Accounting for non-circular motion in barred-spiral galaxies |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Session Chair: Ian Heywood | |
| 15:15 – 15:35 | Martin Zwaan: Tools for measuring galaxy space densities from HI surveys |
| 15:35 – 15:55 | Oleg Smirnov: 3C147 & CygA & friends: high dynamic range imaging and the software ecosystem |
| 15:55 – 16:10 | Jan-Willem Steeb: Spatial Filtering of Radio Frequency Interference |
| 16:10 – 16:45 | Discussion: Are we on track? Are we missing any vital tools? Is there somewhere we need to focus more? |
| 18:30 | Conference Dinner (Braai at SAAO Auditorium) |
| Wednesday 3 February | |
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| Session 1:
Modeling & Simulations |
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| Session Chair: Attila Popping | |
| 9:00 – 9:20 | Chris Power: Galaxy Formation Modeling for the SKA and its Pathfinders |
| 9:20 – 9:40 | Charlotte Welker: Gas accretion onto galaxies: the imprint of the cosmic web |
| 9:40 – 10:00 | Romeel Dave: Hydrodynamic Simulations of HI Evolution in Galaxies |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Daniel Cunnama: Mocking Astrophysics |
| 10:20 – 10:40 | Danail Obreschkow: Update on HI-driven angular momentum science |
| 10:40 – 11:10 | Coffee break |
| Session 2:
Simulated data products & ancillary multi-wavelength observations to support surveys |
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| Session Chair: Martin Meyer | |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Ed Elson: A suite of new synthetic data products for the SKA precursors |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Sphesihle Makhathini: HI-Inator: A tool for platform independent radio telescope simulations |
| 11:50 – 12:10 | Mattia Vaccari: HELP-ing HI Surveys: The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project |
| 12:10 – 13:15 | Lunch |
| Session 3:
HI Science |
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| Session Chair: Michelle Cluver | |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Ximena Fernandez: Highest redshift neutral hydrogen image in emission: A CHILES detection of a starbursting spiral at z=0.376 |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Mpati Ramatsoku: Preparing for Apertif: A WSRT mosaic of a nearby rich galaxy cluster |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Betsey Adams: Apertif Surveys and the Smallest Galaxies |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Danielle Lucero: KAT-7 HI Science Highlights |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Brenda Namumba: Survey of Southern Local Group Dwarf Galaxies |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Jamie Bok: Exploring galaxy evolution with HI profile asymmetries |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Session Chair: Thijs van der Hulst | |
| 15:15 – 15:30 | Moses Mogotsi: MHONGOOSE Galaxies in other wavelengths and determining their kinematics |
| 15:30 – 15:45 | Amidou Sorgho: Observing 5 MHONGOOSE galaxies with KAT-7 |
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Elizabeth Mahony: A search for HI absorption in the brightest southern radio galaxies |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Spencer Wolfe: Observing very low column density HI within the Local Group |
| 16:15 – 16:30 | Nickolas Pingel: A Phased Array Feed for the Green Bank Telescope |
| 16:30 | Closing remarks |