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)
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
- Session 2: WG 1 (Lecture Theatre)
- 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)
- VAST - Tara Murphy (5)
09:00 - Phil Diamond - Welcome and Introduction
09:10 - Ant Schinckel - ASKAP Status Update
09:40 - WALLABY - Lister Staveley-Smith (UWA) (15+5)
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
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30
- Session 5: SSP Science Talks
- 10:10 - 10:30 Coffee Break
- Session 6: PAF and Field of View
- 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
- Session 7a: WG 5
- 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 - Primary data products
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)
10:30 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)
13:30 Structured Discussion (Chair: Emil Lenc)
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1
- Session 9: SSP Science Talks
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
- Session 10: WG 4b (Lecture Theatre)
- 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)
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)
10:30 BETA Commissioning and Science