Preliminary Program for Catania SPARC/EMU meeting June 2014 | ||
Wednesday 4 June: Session 1: Overview & technical developments | ||
10:00 | Coffee & Registration | (Chair: Grazia Umana) |
10:30 | Grazia Umana | Welcome |
10:40 | Ray Norris | SPARCS background and aims |
11:00 | Jon Zwart | Bayes Twice: Stacking Revisited & What the CLEANer saw |
11:30 | Chiara Ferrari | A new deconvolution algorithm based on sparse representations |
12:00 | Discussion | |
12:30 | lunch | |
Session 2: Surveys | Chair Chiara Ferrari) |
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13:30 | Ray Norris | EMU reacceleration |
14:00 | Lukas Lindroos | Stacking of intereferometric data - estimating sizes of marginally extended faint sources |
14:30 | Alessandro Maini | Assessing the nature of IFRS in the SERVS deep fields |
15:00 | Afternoon tea | |
15:30 | Self-organised discussions |
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17:00 | end of session | |
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Thursday 5 June: Session 3: SKA Pathfinders (chair Jasper Wall) |
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09:00 | Ray Norris | ASKAP/EMU overview & status update |
09:45 | Anna Kapinska | The MWA All-Sky Survey and its first science |
10:15 | Coffee | |
10:45 | Russ Taylor | Meerkat & MIGHTEE |
11:15 | Ray Norris | ASKAP early science: how to be part of it |
11:45 | Discussion | |
12:15 | Lunch | |
Session 4: Cosmology & Fundamentals (Chair: Russ Taylor, TBC) |
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13:30 | Marco Regis | Fundamental physics with EMU and MIGHTEE |
14:00 | Glen Rees | The cosmological sensitivity of next generation radio continuum surveys |
14:30 | Sonia Anton | Astrometry and AGNs in the Gaia-SKA era |
15:00 | aftenoon tea | |
15:30 | Jasper Wall | The deepest source count at 3 GHz via MCMC and Bayes |
16:00 | Discussion | |
17:00 | end of session | |
18:00 | Conference dinner at a traditional (and brilliant!) Sicilian restauarant in Catania. Cost 35-40 euros each | |
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Friday 6 June: Session 5: Clusters and multiwavelength observations (Chair: Nick Seymour) |
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09:00 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | Cluster Science with EMU |
09:30 | Tiziana Venturi | Cluster Science with SKA precursors |
10:00 | morning coffee | |
10:30 | Paolo Ciliegi | Synergistic science with Euclid and SKA pathfinders |
11:00 | Minh Huynh |
The ATLAS 5 GHz Survey of the extended Chandra Deep Field South: Second Data Release |
11:30 | Russ Taylor |
JVLA and GMRT Deep Full Stokes Imaging of ELAIS N1 |
12:00 | Discussion | |
12:30 | lunch | |
Session 6: The Galaxy | Chair: Ray Norris |
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13:30 | Roland Kothes | Galactic Science with SPARCS:The study of Planetary Nebulae and HII regions |
14:00 | Corrado Trigilio | SCORPIO |
14:30 | Francesco Cavallaro | Spectral indices of Galactic sources |
15:00 | afternoon tea | |
15:30 | Denis Leahy |
Radio emission from supernova remnants |
16:00 | Nick Seymour |
Stacking, confusion, primary beams and faint source counts: scraping the bottom of the barrel |
16:30 | Discussion | |
17:00 | end of meeting | |
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