Name: National SKA Science Day Sweden
Start: 2023-02-02T09:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-02-02T17:15:00+01:00
Location: Albano Hus 4

National SKA Science Day Sweden

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 9:00 AM

Monday, January 30, 2023
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
Thursday, February 2, 2023
9:00 AM Registration & Coffee
Registration & Coffee
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
Contributions

9:50 AM Welcome - Garrelt Mellema (Stockholm University)
10:00 AM Morning session
Morning session
10:00 AM - 12:05 PM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
Contributions

10:00 AM SKA science case and project status/timeline - Robert Braun (SKAO)

10:30 AM Sweden in the SKA - John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology)

10:45 AM Scientific highlights from the metre wavelength SKA precursor telescope LOFAR and LOFAR 2.0 goals. - Jason Hessels

11:10 AM Scientific exploitation of LOFAR international baseline observations. - Leah Morabito

11:35 AM Sub-arcsecond resolution imaging of M51 with LOFAR-VLBI - Deepika Venkattu (Stockholm University)

11:50 AM Polarization in the ELAIS-N1 LOFAR deep field: Probing the sub-mJy regime of polarized extragalactic sources - Sara Piras (Chalmers University of Technology)
12:05 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:05 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
1:00 PM Afternoon session 1
Afternoon session 1
1:00 PM - 2:25 PM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
Contributions

1:00 PM HI galaxies science results from centimetre wavelength SKA precursor telescopes. - Kelley Hess

1:25 PM MeerKAT HI imaging of high-redshift analog galaxy Haro11: clues to Reionization - Alexandra Le Reste (Stockholm University)

1:40 PM Constraining cosmology with the 21-cm signal during reionization - Sambit Kumar Giri (Stockholm University)

1:55 PM Probing the Cosmic Dawn using the redshifted 21-cm bispectrum - Mohammad Kamran (Uppsala University)

2:10 PM Utilization of Convolutional Neural Networks for H i Source Finding Team FORSKA-Sweden approach to SKA Data Challenge 2 - Henrik Håkansson (Fraunhofer-Chalmers Centre for Industrial Mathematics)
2:25 PM Coffe break
Coffe break
2:25 PM - 2:50 PM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
2:50 PM Afternoon session 2
Afternoon session 2
2:50 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: Lecture room 24, floor 2
Contributions

2:50 PM MeerKAT continuum/transient results - Lindsay Magnus

3:15 PM Fundamental Physics with SKA - Yutong He (Stockholm University)

3:30 PM Polarized intensity oddities in edge-on galaxies - Axel Brandenburg (Stockholm University)

3:45 PM Spatially resolving the extended atmospheres of evolved stars with the SKA - Behzad Bojnordi Arbab (Chalmers University of Technology)

4:00 PM Summary and next steps - John Conway (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University of Technology)

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