ASKAP Survey Science Teams Working Meeting

November 29, 30 and December 1 2010
ATNF Marsfield Lecture Theatre

Final Program

MONDAY NOVEMBER 29

• Session 1: Introduction (Chair: IF)

09:00 - Phil Diamond - Welcome and Introduction
09:10 - Ant Schinckel - ASKAP Status Update
09:40 - WALLABY - Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA) (15+5)

• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break


• Session 2: WG 1 (Lecture Theatre)

10:30 Calibration & Imaging Pipeline (Tim Cornwell)
10:45 Questions & Discussion (Tim Cornwell)

11:00 WALLABY (Tobias Westmeier): usefulness of simulations and future simulation requirements
11:10 EMU: usefulness of simulations and future simulation requirements
11:20 Discussion with other SSPs: usefulness of current simulations

DINGO - Martin Meyer (5)

VAST - Tara Murphy (5)

POSSUM - Russ Taylor (5)

FLASH - Matt Whiting (5)

GASKAP - Naomi McClure-Griffiths (5)

11:45 Structured Discussion (Matt Whiting/Simon Johnston)

Way forward for 2011: usefulness vs resourcing for future simulations
Possibility/Option for a common simulation containing continuum, polarisation, HI emission etc
ASKAPsoft, deconvolution challenges, high-resolution spectral capability


• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch


• Session 3a: WG 2 (Lecture Theatre, chair: SJ)

13:30 Continuum/Transient point source finding issues (Paul Hancock)
13:50 Continuum extended source finding issues (Shea Brown)
14:10 Polarisation source finding issues (Jeroen Stil)
14:30 Extragalactic HI source finding issues (Tobias Westmeier)
14:50 Galactic source finding issues (Jimi Green)
15:10 Structured Discussion (Chair: Matt Whiting)
Interactions with Duchamp
Interface with ASKAP computing
Way forward for 2011
• Session 3b: WG 4a (Chief's Meeting Room)

13:30 Structured Discussion (Chair: John Reynolds)
• 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break


• Session 4: SSP Science Talks (chair: IF)

16:00 - EMU (Andrew Hopkins - AAO) (15+5)
16:20 - FLASH (Darren Croton - Swinburne) (15+5)
16:40 - VAST (Keith Bannister - U Sydney) (15+5)

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30

• Session 5: SSP Science Talks

09:00 Field of View of PAF (John Bunton, 20+10)
09:30 - GASKAP - Josh Peek (Columbia) (15+5)
09:50 - DINGO - Attila Popping (UWA) (15+5)

• 10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break


• Session 6: PAF and Field of View

10:30 Checkerboard PAF development and testing timetable (Ant Schinckel/Russell Gough)
11:10 Checkerboard EM design considerations (Stuart Hay)
11:10 Checkerboard PAF performance and way forward (Aaron Chippendale)
11:30 Vivaldi PAF overview, performance and results (Tom Oosterloo, 20+10)
12:00 - POSSUM - Takuya Akahori (15+5)


• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch


• Session 7a: WG 5

13:30 Structured Discussion (Chair: Emil Lenc)
Data Requirements document feedback
Primary data products
Validation process of primary data products
Secondary (science/derived) data products
VO Data access
Vision for the archive

Session 7b: WG 1 & 2 Breakout (Schottky Room)


13:30 Structured Discussion (Chair: tbd)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break




Session 8: Internal Review Outcomes Discussion (Lecture Theatre)


16:00 Phil Diamond
16:15 Simon Johnston

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1

• Session 9: SSP Science Talks

09:00 - CRAFT (J-P Macquart - Curtin) (15+5)
09:20 - VLBI (Tasso Tzioumis - CASS) (15+5)
09:40 - COAST (George Hobbs - CASS) (15+5)

• 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break


• Session 10: WG 4b (Lecture Theatre)

10:30 BETA Commissioning and Science

Timeline for BETA (Simon Johnston)
Early science with BETA (Ilana Feain)
Science Verification programs for SSPs
Calibration, Imaging and Source finding for BETA (Tim Cornwell)
• 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch


• Session 11a: Synergies with other Surveys (Lecture Theatre)

13:30 - Apertif Surveys update (Tom Oosterloo)
13:40 - MeerKAT Surveys update (tbd)
14:50 - Optical Surveys in the ASKAP era (Matthew Colless)

• Session 11b: WG 5 Breakout (Faraday Room)

13:30 Structured Discussion (Chair: Emil Lenc)
• 15:10 - 15:30 Coffee Break


• Session 12: (Lecture Theatre)

15:30 Open Discussion (Chair: Ilana/Simon)

• 16:30 Conference Summary (Lecture Theatre)