SKA data challenges workshop

SKA data challenges workshop: analysis, archive, and access basics

30 September- 02October 2019 - Istituto di Radioastronomia Bologna, Italy

The "SKA Data Challenges workshop" aims to be an event for astronomers and engineers interested to apprehend the SKA basics. Taking the opportunity offered by the "First SKA data challenge", we will address most of the main issues associated with data transfer, analysis, archiving, and data access that will be important for preparing to work with SKA data. The main topics that will be discussed are

• SKA basics (interferometry with SKA)
• Overview of Science Working Groups and on-going activities with Pathfinders and Precursors
• SKA Data Challenges
• Support and interaction facilities for astronomers
• Design of a SKA Regional Centre in Europe, AENEAS and other projects
• Big Data, network and storage
• Archives in astronomy
• Pipelining and containerization
• Machine Learning, data exploitation
• Open Access and collaborative mentality

We encourage in particular PhD students and young researchers to attend: they are also welcome to contribute with short presentations and/or posters.

Preliminary Program

Monday, 30 September

14:30 Introduction
14:45 SKA basics (Bonaldi)
15:15 SKA Science Working Groups (IT-SKA board)
15:45 coffee-break
16:15 Big Data (Gallinucci UNIBO)
17:00 Networking Big data in astronomy (Nanni/Stagni IRA)
17:30 Archiving in astronomy (Galluzzi OATS)

Tuesday, 01 October 09:30 Data Handling (analysis and computation) (Ashdown/Scaife) 10:15 Computation in Italy (Knapic, OATS) 10:45 Containerization (Bedosti, IRA) 11:15 coffee break 11:45 SKA Data challenges (Bonaldi SKAO) 12:30 SKA Data challenges experience in Italy (Burkutean IT-ARC) 13:00 Lunch 14:30 Archived data analysis tools and projects (IT-ARC) 15:00 Precursors Galactic (Umana OACT) 15:30 Precursors Extragalactic (Venturi IRA) 16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 Contributed talks 17:15 LOFAR (Brunetti IRA) 17:45 VLBI in SKA (Rygl IRA)

Wednesday, 02 October

09:30 Open Access in astronomy with hands-on tutorial (Verdes-Montenegro IAC) 11:30 coffee break 12:00 Contributed talks 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Machine Learning (Asperti UNIBO) 14:45 Machine Learning for SKA Survey science (Scaife) 15:30 Machine Learning in astronomy (Burkutean IT-ARC) 16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 AENEAS & co (van Haarlem ASTRON) 17:15 Support for radio-astronomy in Italy (IT-ARC) 17:45 SKA in Italy (IT-SKA Board, Prandoni) 18:30 End of workshop

Registration

The deadline for registration is 20th of September 2019. No registration fee is required. Please register here.

Venue, Logistics & contacts

The meeting will be held at the Congress Centre of the CNR-campus, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, Sala 215.

Directions to reach the campus can be found here.

Hotels close to the campus are listed here.

For any request please contact the Italian ARC

help-desk@alma.inaf.it