Name: MWA Project Meeting - 2024
Start: 2024-08-28T07:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-08-30T19:00:00+02:00
Location: BC Building, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL)

MWA Project Meeting - 2024

from Wednesday, 28 August 2024 (07:00) to Friday, 30 August 2024 (19:00)

Monday, 26 August 2024
Tuesday, 27 August 2024
Wednesday, 28 August 2024
09:00 Workshop for MWA Collaboration members
Workshop for MWA Collaboration members
09:00 - 12:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

09:00 An Introduction to MWA ASVO and Data access - Mouriyan Rajendran (Curtin)

09:30 How to process MWA visibilities - Dev Null (Curtin)

10:30 Discussion and Q&A - MWA Operations team and Management
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)
13:00 Welcome
Welcome
13:00 - 14:10
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

13:00 Registration

13:30 Welcome by EPFL - Emma Tolley

13:40 MWA Director Report - Steven Tingay (ICRAR-Curtin)
14:10 Invited Talk
Invited Talk
14:10 - 15:40
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

14:10 Thoughts on the future of large-scale radio astronomy data processing - Thomas Schulthess

14:40 U.S.-Based Research on Mitigating Radio Frequency Interference for MWA Data - Jade Ducharme (Brown University)

15:10 Canada, the MWA, and CANDIAPL - Greg Sivakoff
15:40 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:40 - 16:10
Room: BC01 (level 0)
16:10
16:10 - 17:20
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

16:10 MWA Data, Archive and Systems Update - Greg Sleap (Curtin University/Murchison Widefield Array)

16:40 The status of SHAO-MWA Ph3 receiver - Yajun Wu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory)

17:00 The MWA receiver upgrade project - Jake Jones (ICRAR - Curtin University)
17:20 Close of Day
Close of Day
17:20 - 18:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)

18:00

18:00 - 20:30
Thursday, 29 August 2024
09:00
09:00 - 10:50
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

09:00 Overview of Solar Science Group Activities from MWA - Rohit Sharma (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)

09:30 Improving MWA Ionospheric Corrections Using Small Satellites - Ferry Lanter (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)

09:50 Ionospheric plasma bubbles in the MWA data and updates from Japan - Shintaro Yoshiura (NAOJ)

10:10 Solar and Heliospheric Physics with SKA - Rohit Sharma (IIT Kanpur)

10:30 Interplanetary Scintillation Science with the Murchison Widefield Array - Angelica Waszewski (ICRAR - Curtin University)
10:50 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:50 - 11:20
Room: BC01 (level 0)
11:20
11:20 - 12:30
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

11:20 Overview of EoR activities from the MWA - Miguel Morales (University of Washington)

11:50 Latest 21cm results from the Australian EoR team - Chuneeta Devi Nunhokee (Curtin University)

12:10 Trajectory based RFI subtraction and calibration - Chris Finlay (University of Geneva)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: BC01 (level 0)
13:30
13:30 - 14:50
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

13:30 Using beam simulations to model mutual coupling coefficients in the Phase II compact array - Katherine Elder (Arizona State University)

13:50 From Foreground to Signal: Harnessing Deep Learning to Map Neutral Hydrogen During Reionization - Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich)

14:10 A candidate field for deep imaging of the Epoch of Reionization observed with MWA - Cathie Zheng (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory – SHAO)

14:30 Excision of Bright Point Source Visibilities from 21cm Data - Michele Bianco (ETH Zurich) Shreyam Parth Krishna (EPFL)
14:50 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
14:50 - 15:20
Room: BC01 (level 0)
15:20
15:20 - 16:50
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

15:20 Pulsars and Fast Transients with the MWA - Ramesh Bhat (Dr)

15:50 The implications of quasi-periodically nulling on the pulsar death mechanism - Garvit Grover (Curtin Institute of radio astronomy)

16:10 High-Time Resolution GPU Imager for FRB searches at low radio frequencies - Marcin Sokolowski (Curtin University)

16:30 A census of millisecond pulsars with the MWA - Christopher Lee (Curtin University)
16:50 Close of Day
Close of Day
16:50 - 18:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)

18:00

18:00 - 20:00
Friday, 30 August 2024
09:00 Galactic and Extra-galactic (GEG)
Galactic and Extra-galactic (GEG)
09:00 - 10:10
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

09:00 Overview of Galactic and Extragalactic group Activities from the MWA - Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna)

09:30 Constructing a new data set for detecting Supernova remnant candidates. - Silvia Mantovanini

09:50 The Galactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey at 300 MHz - Stefan Duchesne (CSIRO)
10:10 Morning Tea
Morning Tea
10:10 - 10:40
Room: BC01 (level 0)
10:40 Transients
Transients
10:40 - 11:30
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

10:40 Overview of Transients group Activities from MWA - Ramesh Bhat (Dr)

11:10 Tidal Disruption Events: simulations and implications for MWA observations - Lucio Mayer (University of Zurich)
11:30 The Australian SKA Regional Centre, the MWA, and the SKA
The Australian SKA Regional Centre, the MWA, and the SKA
11:30 - 12:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)
Contributions

11:30 The Australian SKA Regional Centre, the MWA, and the SKA - Jordan Collier (Australian SKA Regional Centre (AusSRC) / Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy (CIRA))
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)

13:00 Breakout sessions
Breakout sessions
13:00 - 14:30
Room: BC01 (level 0)

14:30 Discussion session: Revisiting the distributed processing of MWA data for science around the MWA consortium
Discussion session: Revisiting the distributed processing of MWA data for science around the MWA consortium
14:30 - 15:30
Room: BC01 (level 0)

15:30 Afternoon Tea
Afternoon Tea
15:30 - 16:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)

16:00 Prizes and Close Meeting
Prizes and Close Meeting
16:00 - 17:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)

17:00 Close of Day
Close of Day
17:00 - 18:00
Room: BC01 (level 0)