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Programme 2012
SKANZ 2012
Auckland University of Technology 14 – 16 February, 2012
Note: Allocated talk times include a few minutes for questions
Tuesday 14 February
09:30 – 10:30 Opening and OverviewOpening and Welcome – Derek McCormack (AUT), Sergei Gulyaev, Dick Manchester (15 min)
SKA Overview – Peter Quinn (invited) (30 min)
SKA - the New Zealand Perspective – Jonathan Kings (invited) (15 min)
11:00 – 12:30 SKA Science
Overview of SKA science – Joe Lazio (invited) (30 min)
Why Black Holes do not yet exist! – Roy Kerr (invited) (30 min)
Tracing the buildup of galaxies with the SKA - Nicholas Seymour (15 min)
14:00 – 19:30 Visit to Warkworth Observatory and Winery
Wednesday 15 February
09:00 – 10:30 SKA and Related Development IOverview of SKA Development – Lisa Harvey-Smith (invited) (30 min)
SKA Development in New Zealand – Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (invited) (20 min)
The changing face of citizen science - Arfon Smith (15 min)
Poster Session (20 min)
11:00 – 12:30 SKA and Related Development II
The Path to Aperture Synthesis - Ron Ekers (30 min)
Phased Array Feeds – John O’Sullivan (invited) (20 min)
Digital receivers for radio astronomy – Paul Roberts (invited) (20 min)
Big data technologies under development at JPL - Dayton Jones (15 min)
13:30 – 15:00 SKA Precursors
ASKAP Overview - Antony Schinckel (invited) (30 min)
The Murchison Widefield Array – Ravi Subrahmanyan (invited) (20 min)
e-MERLIN - Peter Thomasson (15 min)
Probing the ISM in galaxies - Loretta Dunne (15 min)
15:30 – 17:00 Science with SKA Precursors
Overview of ASKAP Science – Ilana Feain (invited) (30 min)
Early Universe/EoR – Stuart Wyithe (invited) (20 min)
Abell 3125 and 3128: the merger continues! - a case study for cluster population dynamics in the SKA era - Geoff Grimwood (15 min)
Searching for high-redshift tailed galaxies in the CDFS - a model for future radio surveys - Simak Dehghan (15 min)
18:30 Conference Dinner – Sky Tower
Thursday 16 February
09:00 – 10:30 Wide-field ScienceDeep Radio Surveys – Ray Norris (invited) (20 min)
Wide-field Science with Gemini/AAO – Stuart Ryder (invited) (20 min)
Spectral Line Surveys – Baerbel Koribalski (invited) (20 min)
Bayesian power spectrum analysis of interferometric data - Paul Sutter (15 min)
Science with tailed radio galaxies in next generation radio surveys - Luke Pratley (15 min)
11:00 – 12:30 Computing and Networking for the SKA and ASKAP
How do we deal with 8.8*10ˆ16 pixels? – Andreas Wicenec (invited) (20 min)
KAREN status and perspectives with a view towards the SKA - Steve Cotter (invited) (20 min)
Signal Processing with High Time Resolution - Willem van Straten (invited) (20 min)
Bringing order to chaos: Machine-learning applications for ASKAP and SKA - Peter-Christian Zinn (15 min)
Stream-based approach using hardware accelerators for radio astronomy applications - Mahmoud Mahmoud (15 min)
13:30 – 15:00 Transient and High-Resolution Science
Transients – Tara Murphy (invited) (20 min)
Australasian VLBI – Sergei Gulyaev (invited) (20 min)
Short time Fourier Transform-based method for fast transient detection - Gene Soudlenkov (15 min)
New Zealand path to gamma-ray burst follow-up and transient observations - Stuart Weston (15 min)
15:30 – 16:00 Closing Session
Closing Remarks – Phil Diamond
Last updated: 11 Apr 2012 10:06am