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 SKAO) 15:15 Archiving in astronomy (Galluzzi OATS) 15:45 coffee-break 16:15 AENEAS & co (van Haarlem ASTRON) 17:00 Big Data (Gallinucci UNIBO) 17:30 Networking Big data in astronomy (Nanni/Stagni IRA)
Tuesday, 01 October
09:30 Data Handling (analysis and computation) (Scaife TBC) 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 SKA precursors (Umana OACT) 15:30 Contributed talks 16:00 Coffee Break 16:30 Contributed talks 17:15 LOFAR (Brunetti IRA) 17:45 VLBI in SKA (Rygl/Venturi IRA)
Wednesday, 02 October
09:30 Open Access in astronomy with hands-on tutorial (Garrido IAA) 10:30 Contributed talk 11:00 coffee break 11:30 Deep learning and Machine Learning (Asperti UNIBO) 12:15 Machine Learning for SKA Survey science (Scaife) 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Support for radio-astronomy in Italy (IT-ARC) 14:45 SKA in Italy (IT-SKA Board, Prandoni) 15:30 Coffee Break
Registration
The deadline for registration is 20th of September 2019. No registration fee is required. Please register here.
Registered participants:
Jan Brand Elisabetta Liuzzo Sandra Burkutean Marcella Massardi Nicola Marchili Matteo Bonato Anna Scaife Cristina Knapic Mauro Nanni Anna Bonaldi Garrido Sanchez, Julián Fabio Vitello Simone Riggi Andrea Mattana Alessandra Zanichelli Tiziana Venturi Roberta Zanin Vincenzo Galluzzi Cristiana Spingola Daniele DallaCasa Gianni Bernardi Quirino D'Amato Marco Bondi Rossella Cassano Conforti Vito Leonardo Baroncelli Simone Tampieri Marco Molinaro Ambra Di Piano Viviana Casasola Marzia Rivi Sara Bertocco Isabella Prandoni Marco Marongiu Ugo Becciani Mario Ballardini Marco Padovani
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