Programme

Science for SKA Colloquium (S4SKA) 2019

Venue: Business Building WF, Room WF711

Tuesday 12 February

09.30
Registration - WF Level 7 Foyer
10.00
Robert Braun, SKA Office - SKA Project and Science Update
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

11.00

TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.30
Phil Edwards, CSIRO - An update on SKA activities in Australia
12.00
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, ICRAR/MWA - New Zealand's Role in the Murchison Widefield Array

12.30

LUNCH (60 min)
01.30
Céline Boehm, The University of Sydney - Fundamental Physics and the SKA
02.00
Richard Easther, University of Auckland - Cosmology: Where Are We Now and What Happens Next?
02.30
Stephen Curran, Victoria University of Wellington - Unveiling a Hidden Population of High Redshift Galaxies with the SKA

03.00

TEA BREAK (30 min)
03.30
Aidan Hotan, CSIRO – via Zoom - Early Science and Pilot Surveys with ASKAP
04.00
Sergei Gulyaev, AUT - SKA + VLBI Science – an Update

04.30

CLOSE DAY

05.00

RECEPTION: WG Level 3

Wednesday 13 February

09.30
Yvette Perrott, Victoria University of Wellington - Observing Galaxy Clusters in SZ with the SKA
10.00
Chris Gordon, University of Canterbury - Galactic Bulge Millisecond Pulsars

10.30

TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.00
Jonathan Squire, University of Otago – via Zoom - Turbulence and Dynamo in Weakly Collisional Plasmas
11.30
Willem van Straten, AUT - The low-frequency Gravitational Wave Background

12.00

LUNCH (60 min)
01.30
BUS TRIP to Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory and Ascension Wine Estate
06.00
Estimated time of arrival back in Auckland CBD

Computing for SKA Colloquium (C4SKA) 2019

Two venues:

  • Thursday: WZ Building, Room WZ416
  • Friday: WE Building, Room WE230

Thursday 14 February

08.45
Registration
09.25
Opening and Welcome
09.40
Robert Braun, SKA Office – Scientific Computing for the SKA
10.10
Phil Crosby, SKA Office - Progress with Procurement Arrangements for the SKA and Success with Industry Engagement

10.40

TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.10
Andrew Ensor, AUT-HPCRL – New Zealand's Progress in the SKA
11.30
JC Guzman, CSIRO – SKA SDP Critical Design Review
11.50
Maxim Voronkov, CSIRO - Ingest Pipeline for ASKAP
12.10
Markus Dolensky, ICRAR - Launching a Release Train

12.30

LUNCH (60 min)
01.30
Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland - FPGA acceleration of the Pulsar Search Pipeline
01.50
Haomiao Wong and Krys Sherwin, University of Auckland - FPGA acceleration of the Pulsar Search Pipeline
02.10
Willem van Straten, AUT - Pulsar Signal Processing Challenges for the SKA
02.30
Anthony Griffin, AUT - Precision effects of Calibration in the Imaging Pipeline

02.50

TEA BREAK (30 min)
03.20
Piers Harding, Catalyst IT - Kubernetes ate your PaaS
03.40
Jordi Blasco, HPC Now! - Addressing Tomorrow's Challenges Today
04.00
TN Chan, Compucon - An Optimal SDP Compute Node Specification
04.20
Discussion Forum (Q&A)

04.40

CLOSE DAY

06.30

DINNER: Four Points by Sheraton, Main Entrance 110 Mayoral Drive

Friday 15 February

09.30
Opening
09.40
Maurizio Miccolis, SKA Office - The SKA way of doing SAFe
10.10
Andreas Wicenec, University of Western Australia – Making 100 million parallel tasks user friendly

10.40

TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.10
Grant Hampson, CSIRO – Blue Computing PDF, 2328.9 KB
11.30
David Humphrey, CSIRO – Low.CBF Modelling
11.50
Yuqing Chen, CSIRO – Perentie ITF and Verification Environment
12.10
John Bunton, CSIRO – Next Generation FPGA / Gemini

12.30

LUNCH (60 min)
01.30
Will Kamp, AUT - Cramming Ethernet into FPGAs
01.50
Norbet Abel, AUT – Cramming CMACs into DSPs
02.10
Vignesh Balu, Massey University - Cramming H into the HBM
02.30
Michael Reznik, Xilinx - FPGA

02.50

TEA BREAK (30 min)
03.20
John Bancroft, REANNZ – An update on the 100G upgrade to the REANNZ network
03.40
Discussion Forum (Q&A)
04.15

CLOSE DAY