NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS, PUNE
2017 PHISCC Workshop : Exploring First Light
February 6 -11, 2017

Talks


Monday, February 6

Time Speaker Title
Facility updates
(chair: Sarah Blyth)
09:15 - 09:25 Jayaram Chengalur,
Marc Verheijen		 Words of welcome
09:25 - 09:50 Claude Carignan Status update on MeerKAT
09:50 - 10:15 Attila Popping Status update on ASKAP
10:15 - 10:40 Danielle Lucero Status update on Apertif
10:40 - 11:10 Morning coffee
11:10 - 11:35 Yogesh Chandola Status update on FAST
11:35 - 12:00 Yashwant Gupta Status update on uGMRT
12:00 - 12:25 Narendra Nath Patra The expanded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
12:25 - 12:50 Sambit Roychowdhury BINGO - a pathfinder HI intensity mapping experiment
12:50 - 14:20 Lunch
Software, pipelines and techniques-I
(chair: Danielle Lucero)
14:20 - 14:45 Tobias Westmeier The HI source finding pipeline SoFiA and its performance on ASKAP early science data
14:45 - 15:10 Manisha S. Samble GMRT HI Imaging Pipeline
15:10 - 15:35 Davide Punzo SlicerAstro: a 3-D interactive visual analytics tool for HI data
15:35 - 16:00 Kevin Vinsen How to create and visualise Terabyte Cubes
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon tea
16:30 - 16:55 Thijs van der Hulst Ideas on HI archives
16:55 - 17:20 James Dempsey MAGMO HI absorption Processing - automation pathfinder for GASKAP
17:20 - 17:45 Jayaram Chengalur Low- to intermediate-redshift HI 21cm stacking studies
17:45 - 18:10 Julia Healy Looking for needles in the HI-stack
18:10 - 18:35 Ed Elson Uncertainties in HI stacking experiments

Tuesday, February 7

Time Speaker Title
Software, pipelines and techniques-II
(chair: Lister Staveley-Smith)
09:00 - 09:25 Abhik Ghosh Imaging on a sphere with interferometers: LOFAR simulations and observations
09:25 - 09:50 Kaushal Buch Some results from the real-time RFI Excision System of uGMRT>
09:50 - 10:15 Anja Schroeder RFI mitigation at the MeerKAT site
10:15 - 10:40 Peter Kamphuis A license-free fully automated TiRiFiC
10:40 - 11:10 Morning coffee
HI in the Local Universe-I
(chair: Lister Staveley-Smith)
11:10 - 11:35 Anastasia Ponomareva Resolved rotation curves for the Tully-Fisher relation
11:35 - 12:00 Arunima Banerjee Mass modelling of superthin galaxies
12:00 - 12:25 Sarah Blyth Probing galaxy merger activity through HI global profile asymmetries
12:25 - 12:50 Filippo Maccagni The last survey of the "old" WSRT: detecting HI absorption in low power radio sources
12:50 - 14:20 Lunch
HI in the Local Universe-II
(chair: Andrew Baker)
14:20 - 14:45 Sushma Kurapati HI observations of gas-rich void galaxies
14:45 - 15:10 Mike Jones HI scaling relations of the most isolated galaxies: studying HI accretion and evolution with the SKA
15:10 - 15:35 Aditya Chowdhury Angular momentum content in gas-rich dwarf galaxies
15:35 - 16:00 Chandreyee Sengupta Dark Mater in tidal dwarf galaxies
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon tea
16:30 - 16:55 Enrico DiTeodoro HI clouds near the galactic center as tracers of the nuclear wind
16:55 - 17:20 Prasun Dutta Investigating the structure and dynamics of interstellar medium from Interferometric observations
17:20 - 17:45 Brenda Namumba Exploring the southern Local Group dwarf irregulars with KAT-7
17:45 - 18:10 Attila Popping Imaging galaxies intergalactic and nearby environment
18:10 - 18:35 Bi-Qing For Hydrogen clouds in the Magellanic system

Wednesday, February 8

Time Speaker Title
HI at higher redshift
(chair: Jasjeet Singh Bagla)
09:00 - 09:25 Danielle Lucero CHILES: the Cosmos HI Large Extragalactic Survey
09:25 - 09:50 Nissim Kanekar The gas mass of star-forming galaxies at z=~1.3
09:50 - 10:15 Jonghwan Rhee Parkes 21-cm intensity mapping
10:15 - 10:40 Anjan Sarkar Predictions for detecting the z ~ 3.3 HI power spectrum with OWFA
10:40 - 11:10 Morning coffee
11:10 - 11:35 Apurba Bera Probing star formation in galaxies at z=~1 via a radio stacking analysis
11:35 - 12:00 Suma Murthy uGMRT HI 21cm absorption studies of high-redshift Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers
12:00 - 12:25 J.N.H.S. Aditya Cold gas in high redshift galaxies
12:25 - 12:50 Rajeshwari Dutta Distribution of cold HI gas around z<0.4 galaxies
12:50 - 14:20 Lunch
Surveys with SKA pathfinders
(chair: Andrew Baker)
14:20 - 14:45 Andrew Baker LADUMA: Looking At the Distant Universe with the MeerKAT Array
14:45 - 15:10 Claude Carignan SKA science with MeerKAT
15:10 - 15:35 Lister Staveley-Smith The Wallaby survey with ASKAP
15:35 - 16:00 Vanessa Moss FLASH - the First Large Absorption Survey in HI: Commissioning and early results
16:00 - 16:30 Afternoon tea
16:30 - 16:55 Elizabeth Mahony Studying HI absorption in AGN with ASKAP
16:55 - 17:20 Marc Verheijen The Apertif HI imaging surveys
17:20 - 17:55 Yogesh Chandola Mid-IR WISE colours and extragalactic HI surveys
17:45 - 18:10 Attila Popping Imaging galaxies intergalactic and nearby environment
17:45 - 18:10 Jasjeet Singh Bagla A deep survey for gas-rich galaxies with the uGMRT