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)

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