| Monday, 06th May |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Welcome and logistics for the meeting, José Afonso Presentation of SPARCS, Carole Jackson |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Status Updates from SKA Pathfinders and Surveys (15 min talks, Chair: Carole Jackson): - MeerKAT + MIGHTEE, Russ Taylor - ASKAP, Ray Norris - LOFAR, Reinout van Weeren |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Status Updates from SKA Pathfinders and Surveys (Chair: José Afonso): - Apertif, Carole Jackson - uGMRT, Russ Taylor - VLASS, Lawrence Rudnick - e-Merlin, Tom Muxlow - Lessons learnt from the Phase II MWA, Melanie Johnston-Hollit |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Science Talks 1 (15 min talks, Chair: Oleg Smirnov): - Recent results on galaxy cluster science with the Upgraded GMRT and realtime RFI mitigation, Ruta Kale - Searching and characterizing extended Galactic sources in SCORPIO, Adriano Ingallinera - The first SMBHs: indication from models, Stergios Amarantidis - Early Results from MIGHTEE polarization Observations, Russ Taylor - The POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS): Results from the All-Sky Survey, Christopher Riseley |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Science Talks 2 (15 min talks, Chair: Grazia Umana): - The MeerKAT DEEP Field, Tom Mauch (presented by Fernando Camilo) - The e-MERLIN Galaxy Evolution Survey (eMERGE) - Results from the First Data and Image Release, Tom Muxlow - Magnetizing the universe with dwarf galaxies: A new low-frequency radio continuum perspective, Sarrvesh Seethapuram Sridhar - The evolution of star-forming galaxies in the faint low-frequency radio source population, Emmanuel Ocran - Optically selected quasars at low radio frequencies, Gulay Gurkan - LOFAR science: broad absorption line quasars and the path to high resolution imaging, Leah Morabito - The promise of next-generation RC surveys: Revealing the physics and evolution of galaxies and AGN in the SKA era, Isabella Prandoni |
Tuesday, 07th May |
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| 9:00 - 10:30 | Data Quality Assessment (Chairs: Jordan Collier, Betsey Adams): - Introduction, Jordan Collier (10 min) - Scientific Data Quality Assessment of MeerKAT Pipelines, Jordan Collier (15+5) - e-Merlin pipeline and its impact on data QA, Javier Moldon (15+5) - MeerKATHI: A novel data reduction pipeline for MeerKAT, Kshitij Thorat (15+5) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:10 | Data Quality Assessment (cont.): - Apertif Data QA, Betsey Adams (15+5) - QA beyond integrated quantities, Lawrence Rudnick (15+5) - Discussion (40) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Advanced Imaging and Calibration (Chairs: Brad Frank, Björn Adebahar): - Intro & Context, Björn Adebahr (10 min) - AperCal - The Apertif Calibration Pipeline, Björn Adebahr (15+5) - ProcessMeerKAT: The IDIA data analysis pipeline, Srikrishna Sekhar (15+5) - ASKAP Continuum Data Processing, Andrew O’Brien (15+5) |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:00 | Advanced Imaging and Calibration (cont.): - ngVLA, Jim Condon (15+5) - MWA, Huib Intema (15+5) - ASKAP, Craig Anderson (15+5) - MeerKAT Imaging and DDEs General Overview, Oleg Smirnov (40+5) - Discussion (15+5) |
| 20:00-22:00 | Workshop Dinner |
Wednesday, 08th May |
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| 9:00 - 11:00 | Multi Wavelength Data Fusion (Chairs: Nick Seymour, Mattia Vaccari): - Introduction, Nick Seymour (10 min) - The LoTSS optical/IR identifications, Wendy Williams (15+5min) - XID of the ASKAP early science cosmology field with DES using likelihood ratio, Nick Seymour (15+5min) - MeerKAT, Mattia Vaccari (TBD) (15+5min) - An advanced Bayesian technique for radio/IR cross-identification, Ray Norris (15+5min) - Discussion (30 min) |
| 11:00-11:20 | Coffee Break |
| 11:20 - 13:15 | Reference Fields (Chairs: Tom Muxlow, Roland Rothes) Past: - Introduction to Reference Fields Project – Aims and deliverables, Tom Muxlow (5mins) - Present status of field coverage, Roland Rothes (TBD) (10mins) Present: - CDFS & COSMOS field coverage with MeerKAT, Russ Taylor (10+5mins) - MWA observations of all 3 fields at 150 MHz - Plus plans for cross-matching with TGSS and LOFAR/LoTSS, Nick Seymour (10+5mins) - Role of Reference Fields in HI Surveys. Latest plans for Apertif/ASKAP, Betsey Adams (10+5mins) - e-MERLIN observations of the Northern SLOAN Reference Field, Nick Wrigley (Presented by Javier Moldon) (10+5 mins) Future: - Discussion (30mins) |
| 13:15-14:30 | Lunch Break |
| 14:30 - 18:00 | Free Afternoon |
Thursday, 09th May |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 | Science Talks 3 (15 min talks): - Source Finding in Crowded Fields, William Cotton - Results from the Stripe 82 XID, Matt Precott |
| 9:30 - 10:30 | Science Below the noise threshold and beating confusion (Chairs: Jeroen Stil, Mario Santos): - Introduction (10min) - nJy Science I: Confusion is a Feature, not a Bug, Jim Condon (30min) - nJy Science II: The Star Formation History of the Universe, Allison Matthews (15+5min) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Science Below the noise threshold and beating confusion (cont.): - Confusion, Correlation, and the Faint Extragalactic Radio Sky, Tessa Vernstrom (15+5min) - Radio luminosity functions below the detection threshold, Eliab Malefahlo (15+5min) - Polarization and spectral index of mJy radio sources as a function of source structure from stacking, Jeroen Stil (15+5min) - Discussion (25min) |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Science Talks 4 (15 min talks): - The GAMA Legacy ATCA Southern Survey (GLASS), Minh Huynh - MWA Interestingly Deep AStrophysical (MIDAS) survey, Nicholas Seymour - Breaking the wall: seeking the earliest radio AGN within the EoR, José Afonso - Revolutions in polarisation: New science brought to you by ASKAP and PAFs: Craig Anderson - Radio Galaxy Classification - the next generation, Lawrence Rudnick |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 18:20 | Machine Learning (Chairs: Ray Norris, Mattia Vaccari): - Unsupervised Clustering of Convolutionally Encoded Radio-astronomical Images, Nic Ralph (15+5min) - Dimensionality reduction techniques for interferometric imaging, Landman Bester (15+5min) - Using Deep Learning to Detect Complex Faraday Rotation Measures, Shea Brown (15+5min) - Extended radio luminosity functions with Radio Galaxy Zoo and machine learning, Matthew Alger (15+5min) - Classification of simple and complex sources and optimum techniques for rotational invariance, Ray Norris (15+5min) - Identifying and collating related radio components in the sky within a (semi)-unsupervised framework using PINK, Tim Galvin (15+5min) - Discussion (20 min) |
Friday, 10th May |
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| 9:00 - 9:15 | Science Talks 5 (15 min talks): - ProFound Radio Extraction, Aaron Robotham |
| 9:15 - 10:30 | Redshift Determination (Chairs: Ray Norris, Ken Duncan): - Overview, Ken Duncan (40 min) - Redshift determination, Ray Norris, Kieran Luken (20 min) - Discussion (30 min) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:30 | Looking ahead (with working group leads, Chair: Carole Jackson) - Discussion on potentiating overlap between WGs - Forward Look and Discussion |
| 12:30 | Close of meeting |
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