NZ Radio Astronomy School & C4SKA Colloquium 2020
We look forward to your participation in these two events we are hosting during the week Monday 10th to Friday 14th February 2020.
NZ Radio Astronomy School 2020 – Programme Summary
This three-day school is pitched at an introductory level, suitable for advanced undergraduate students, post-graduate students, and professionals with limited experience in radio astronomy. On day 1, lessons will be presented at AUT’s Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory; days 2 and 3 will take place in WG404, AUT City Campus. Each day will include a mixture of lectures and practical sessions, ranging from the fundamentals of signals (the Fourier transform, autocorrelation, convolution, etc.) and the astrophysical radio sky (masers, quasars, pulsars, etc.) to the configuration and operation of observatory instrumentation.
Day 1 (10 Feb, Warkworth Radio Astronomical Observatory)
- Morning: Radio Telescope Fundamentals
- Afternoon: Spectral Analysis
Day 2 (11 Feb, AUT City Campus)
- Morning: Imaging Fundamentals
- Afternoon: Advanced Imaging
Day 3 (12 Feb, AUT City Campus)
- Morning: Polarimetry and Pulsars
- Afternoon: Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts
Lecturers and Presenters:
- Jordan Alexander
- Anthony Griffin
- Sergei Gulyaev
- Dick Manchester
- Tim Natusch
- Yvette Perrott
- Willem van Straten
- Caterina Tiburzi
- Stuart Weston
Computing for SKA Colloquium (C4SKA) 2020
Dates: Thursday 13 – Friday 14 February 2020
Venue: Sir Paul Reeves Building, WG404, AUT City Campus
In line with a tradition extending back many years we are hosting a C4SKA Colloquium over two days. It brings together industry and academics involved in the design phase of computer systems for the SKA - the mega science project of the 21st century to build the world’s largest and most sensitive radio telescope. The Colloquium will include presentations and discussions around the project’s transition towards construction, including design updates, prototyping and the Bridging phase.
Local Organising Committee
TN Chan – Modern Technology NZ Ltd - Compucon
Andrew Ensor – AUT (Co-chair)
Anthony Griffin - AUT
Sergei Gulyaev – AUT (Co-chair)
Patricia Sallis - AUT (Admin)
Willem van Straten - AUT
Details
Preliminary Programme
Day 1 - 10 February, Warkworth
Morning: Radio Telescope Fundamentals
8.30am
Registration on AUT City Campus
9.30am
Depart for Warkworth
10.30am
Welcome, introduction, and safety induction
11.00am
Tour of the telescopes
12.30pm
Lunch (provided)
Afternoon: Spectral Analysis
1.30pm
Time series analysis
2.30pm
Radio spectroscopy
4.00pm
Demonstration: methanol maser observation with 30-m dish
5.30pm
Return to city (arriving around 18:30)
Day 2 - 11 February, AUT City Campus, WG404
Morning: Imaging Fundamentals
9.00am
Image formation
10.30am
Morning tea (provided)
11.00am
Image calibration
12.30pm
Lunch (provided)
Afternoon: Advanced Imaging
1.30pm
Very Long Baseline Interferometry
2.30pm
Bayesian uv-plane modelling
3.30pm
Afternoon tea (provided)
4.00pm
Demonstration: imaging with CASA tools
5.30pm
Close
Day 3 - 12 February, AUT City Campus, WG404
Morning
9.00am
Polarimetry
10.30am
Morning tea (provided)
11.00am
Pulsars
12.30pm
Lunch (provided)
Afternoon
1.30pm
Low-frequency pulsar astronomy
2.30pm
Fast Radio Bursts
3.30pm
Afternoon tea (provided)
4.00pm
Demonstration: pulsar data analysis
5.30pm
Close
Norbert Bonnici SafeCore Devices, Malta
Adam Campbell HPC Research Lab, AUT
Ander Castelltort AUT
Chris Clarkson Atos, Australia
TN Chan Compucon New Zealand
Deandra Cutajar University of Malta, Malta
Andrew Ensor HPC Research Lab, AUT
David Fielder Compucon New Zealand
Ketaki Gharat AUT
Ransom Gravatt University of Auckland
Anthony Griffin HPC Research Lab, AUT
Sergei Gulyaev IRASR, AUT
Seth Hall HPC Research Lab, AUT
Will Kamp HPC Research Lab, AUT
Dick Manchester Australia Telescope National Facility
Nicolas Monnier CentraleSupelec, France
Tim Natusch IRASR, AUT
Jean Francois Nezan IETR, France
Julian Oppermann University of Auckland
Yvette Perrott Victoria University of Wellington
Nat Primak IRASR, AUT
Shriram Raveendran AUT
Nick Rees SKAO, Manchester
Krystine Sherwin University of Auckland
Oliver Sinnen University of Auckland
Willem van Straten IRASR, AUT
Petr Sykora Auckland
Caterina Tiburzi ASTRON, Netherlands
Stuart Weston IRASR, AUT
Mingshuang Wu Compucon New Zealand
Ting Yu University of Auckland
C4SKA 2020 Programme
Day 1 - 13 February
9.30am
Registration
10.00am
Opening and welcome
10.05am
Nick Rees, SKA Office – SKA Software Management
10.45am
TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.15am
Will Kamp, AUT HPCRL – NRC Canada: Visibility into CSP and SDP Data Transport
11.35am
Andrew Ensor, AUT HPCRL – Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) for Data Movement in the SKA
11.55am
Seth Hall, AUT HPCRL – Gain Calibration and the Imaging Pipeline in the SKA
12.15pm
LUNCH (60 min)
1.15pm
Adam Campbell, AUT HPCRL – GPU-Accelerated Visibility Prediction: DFT vs. Degridding
1.35pm
Mingshuang Wu, Compucon – SDP Imaging Pipeline Benchmarking
1.55pm
Nicolas Monnier, Centrale Supelec, France - Parallelization of DDFacet on distributed HPC System
2.15pm
TEA BREAK (30 min)
2.45pm
TN Chan, Compucon – New Technologies for SDP Computing
3.05pm
Piers Harding - Universal Computing for Science
3.25pm
Discussion
4.00pm
CLOSE DAY
6.30pm
DINNER at Four Points by Sheraton, 396 Queen Street. Main entrance 110 Mayoral Drive.
Day 2 - 14 February
9.30am
Door open
10.00am
Sergei Gulyaev, AUT IRASR – Early Science with SKA Pathfinders and Precursors
10.45am
TEA BREAK (30 min)
11.15am
Caterina Tiburzi, ASTRON – Low-Frequency Pulsar Science
11.35am
Willem van Straten, AUT IRASR – Polyphase Filterbank Inversion for Pulsar Timing
11.55am
Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland – Fresnel Integrals in Pulsar Search with FPGA OpenCL
12.15pm
LUNCH (60 min)
1.15pm
Anthony Griffin, AUT HPCRL and Afiq Abdul Hamid, AUT IRASR - Detecting RFI in Pulsar Profiles using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
1.35pm
Stuart Weston, AUT IRASR – LRPY Algorithms for Multi-wavelength Cross Identification of Celestial Objects
1.55pm
Chris Clarkson, ATOS Australia - SKA Project: Toward Long Term Collaboration
2.15pm
TEA BREAK (30 min)
2.45pm
Jean-Francois Nezan, IETR, France - How Programming Models can Manage the Problem of Scaling
3.05pm
Discussion
4.00pm
CLOSE DAY
Organising Committees
- Peter Baillie - AUT
- John Bancroft – AUT
- TN Chan - Compucon
- Andrew Ensor – AUT (Co-chair)
- Nicolás Erdödy - Open Parallel Ltd
- Anthony Griffin - AUT
- Sergei Gulyaev – AUT (Co-chair)
- Patricia Sallis - AUT (Admin)
- Willem van Straten - AUT