SKA Cosmology SWG meeting 2023

Jan 17, 2023, 9:00 AM → Jan 19, 2023, 6:00 PM UTC

Lovell Room (3.225) (University of Manchester)

yearly meeting of the SKA Cosmology Science Working Group

Tuesday, January 17

9:15 AM → 9:30 AM Welcome

9:30 AM → 10:20 AM The SKA Observatory: updates and Science Data Challenges

Speaker: Anna Bonaldi

CosmoSWG_Jan23_Bonaldi.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM SKA Pulsar Timing Array

Speaker: Hamsa Padmanabhan

hamsa_skamanchester_2023.pdf

10:40 AM → 10:55 AM Alternative Theories of Gravity and SKAO constraints

Speaker: Cláudio Gomes

AlternativeTheoriesOfGravityAndSKAOConstraints.pdf

10:55 AM → 11:25 AM Coffee Break

11:25 AM → 11:40 AM MGCLASS: modified gravity cosmological solver

Speaker: Ziad Sakr

Sakr_SKA_2023.pdf

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM Constraining gravity with synergies between radio and optical cosmological surveys

Speaker: Santiago Casas

action-dark-energy-ska1xoptical-seminar.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:15 PM Probing the ΛCDM Universe and beyond with HI Intensity Mapping

Speaker: Maria Berti

Talk Manchester - MARIA BERTI.pdf

12:15 PM → 1:20 PM Lunch Break

1:20 PM → 1:40 PM Modelling HI with the GAEA semi-analytical model

Speaker: Gabriella De Lucia

SWGCosmologyDeLucia_jan2023.pdf

1:40 PM → 1:55 PM Modeling neutral hydrogen (HI) at the field level

Speaker: Andrej Obuljen

Obuljen_HI_Modeling_Slides_SKA_Manchester.pdf

1:55 PM → 2:15 PM Mightee HI

Speaker: Francesco Sinigaglia

SKA_meeting_2023_francesco_sinigaglia.pdf

2:15 PM → 2:40 PM The Tully-FIsher relation

Speaker: Federico Lelli

Lelli_SKA_Cosmology.pdf

2:40 PM → 2:50 PM The (baryonic) Tully-Fisher relation status update

Speaker: Anastasia Ponomareva

Ponomareva_SKAcosmology.pdf

2:50 PM → 3:35 PM HI galaxies Focus Group discussion (+TFr)

Anastasia Ponomareva, Stefano Camera

3:35 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Radio Weak Lensing

Speaker: Ian Harrison

ianharrison_radioweaklensing.pdf

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM General Discussion (Weak Lensing, Hi galaxies)

Wednesday, January 18

9:00 AM → 9:30 AM HIRAX overview

Speaker: Alexandre Refregier

SKA Cosmology WG meeting 2023.pdf

9:30 AM → 9:50 AM HIRAX: Instrument Characterisation and Systematics

Speaker: Devin Crichton

HIRAX Instrument Characterisation and Systematics @ Manchester SKAO Cosmology.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:05 AM HIRAX 21cm simulations

Speaker: Pascal Hitz

SKA_Manchester2023_Pascal_Hitz.pdf

10:05 AM → 10:20 AM FG cleaning with ML

Speaker: Tianyue Chen

SKA_SWG_Update.pdf

10:20 AM → 10:40 AM Coffee Break

10:40 AM → 11:10 AM HERA results review talk

Speaker: Phil Bull

HERA_results_2022upd.pdf

11:10 AM → 11:25 AM Chiborg: a Bayesian jackknife framework for testing consistency of multiple measurements

Speaker: Michael Wilensky

Wilensky_chiborg_ska_swg_2023.pdf

11:25 AM → 11:40 AM Fringe-rate filtering of radio interferometric data - what it is, and why do it

Speaker: Hugh Garsden

ska_jan2023_garsden.pdf

11:40 AM → 11:55 AM Analyzing HI 21-cm images from the Epoch of Reionization using Largest Cluster Statistics (LCS)

Speaker: Saswata Dasgupta

Saswata_Dasgupta.pdf

11:55 AM → 12:10 PM Quantifying the effect of snapshot intervals in the light-cone EoR 21-cm signal simulations

Speaker: Suman Pramanick

Suman_Pramanick_SKA_SWG_2023.pdf

12:10 PM → 1:15 PM Focus Group Lunch

1:15 PM → 1:35 PM Radio surveys with LOFAR/MeerKAT/ASKAP for Radio continuum studies

Speakers: Catherine Hale, Dominik Schwarz

Continuum precursor surveys.pdf

1:35 PM → 1:50 PM Radio dipole

Speaker: Dominik Schwarz

SKACosmicRadioDipoleJan2023.pdf

1:50 PM → 2:10 PM Overview of Cosmology with LOFAR

Speaker: Jinglan Zheng

SKA_cosmo_SWG_JZ.pdf

2:10 PM → 2:25 PM Randoms for LOFAR/Clustering measurements

Speaker: Catherine Hale

CHale_SKA-COSMO_Presentation.pdf

2:25 PM → 2:40 PM Update on interferometric OTF imaging with MeerKAT

Speaker: Kristof Rozgonyi

rozgonyi_SKA_cosmology_SWG_slides.pdf

2:40 PM → 3:00 PM Coffee Break

3:00 PM → 4:00 PM JBCA Colloquium

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Networking Coffee

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Continuum Focus Group Discussion

Commensality, Syngergies

Thursday, January 19

9:00 AM → 9:20 AM COMAP

Speaker: Stuart Harper

COMAP_SWG_Manchester2023.pdf

9:20 AM → 9:50 AM MeerKAT Intensity Mapping overview

Speaker: Mario G. Santos

SKA Manchester 2023.pdf

9:50 AM → 10:10 AM A first detection of neutral hydrogen intensity mapping on Mpc scales at z ≈ 0.32 and z ≈ 0.44 using MeerKAT DEEP2 data

Speaker: Zhaoting Chen

Zhaoting_Chen_SKA_SWG_2023.pdf

10:10 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Updates on calibration of MeerKLASS 2021 data / MeerKLASS Map-making Software

Speakers: Amadeus Wild, Jingying Wang

amadeus_ska_cosmology_swg_meeting_2023.pdf

SWG_JingyingWang@20230119.pdf

11:00 AM → 12:00 PM Intensity Mapping Focus Group discussion

Speakers: Laura Wolz, Jingying Wang, Isabella Paola Carucci, Steve Cunnington

HI Intensity Mapping_ Discussion session.pdf

12:00 PM → 12:30 PM Coach leaves Alan Turing for JBO at 12:30

1:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch at JBO

2:30 PM → 5:00 PM JBO Discovery Centre - Back in town at 5pm