GLOWSKA 2016

Friday Jun 3, 2016, 9:00 AM → 6:01 PM Europe/Berlin

The 2016 meeting of the German SKA community

The SKA is on its way to become a global observatory  and leading science facility that will address fundamental questions of our Universe. The SKA proposal to the "National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures" is an important first step, of the German community to become an active partner in this truly exciting project again.

The SKA will be the biggest data generator of the world and will change the traditional way how research has been conducted in astronomy so far. In this light, new ways of collaboration and data analysis is needed to fully explore the capacities of the SKA.  Therefore, it will be essential in the future to explore strategies of national collaboration and to develop key competence of data analysis in order to secure the position of the German SKA community.

The meeting is a forum to discuss the SKA science and how to develop the national SKA collaboration to be competitive in a global context. We invite everybody interested in the SKA and its science and everybody involved in the SKA roadmap-proposal to discuss the future development of the  community and the GLOW collaboration.

Conveners

• Marcus Brüggen (Universität Hamburg)
• Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Tim Huege (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
• Hans-Rainer Klöckner (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn)
• Michael Kramer (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie Bonn)
• Dominik Schwarz (Universität Bielefeld)

Local organizing committee

• Tim Huege
• Sabine Bucher

1 Coffee and Arrival

2 Welcome

Speaker: Tim Huege

3 The SKA Project Information

Speakers: Dominik Schwarz, Michael Kramer

4 Potential of Cosmic Ray measurements with the SKA

Speaker: Anne Zilles

Slides GLOWSKA_Composition_Zilles_v2.pdf

5 The Lunar Askaryan Technique with the SKA

Speaker: Clancy James

Slides lunar_askaryan_ska.pdf

6 Real Time Cosmology

Speaker: Hans-Rainer Klöckner

Slides HRK_2016_KIT_REAL_TIME_COSMOLOGY.pdf

7 The cosmic matter dipole and non-Gaussianity with the SKA

Speaker: Dominik Schwarz

Slides schwarz-GLOWSKA2016Cosmology.pdf

8 Coffee

9 Concepts of the National and international Datacentres

Speakers: Hans-Rainer Klöckner, Hermann Hessling

10 Monte Carlo pathfinding in Radioastronomy

Speaker: Hermann Hessling

Slides MonteCarlo_160601.pdf

11 Open discussion on the HPC challenges

12 Lunch at the canteen

13 Scientific Computing and Data Management at KIT

Speaker: Andreas Heiss

Slides heiss-SCC-SKA-Treffen-03-06-2016-short.pdf

14 Resolving and modelling the turbulent flow in galaxy clusters outskirts

Speaker: Luigi Iapichino

Slides glowska2016-iapichino.pdf

15 Measuring cosmic magnetic fields via the polarization of radio relics

Speaker: Matthias Hoeft

16 Understanding the Neutron Star Population with the SKA

Speaker: Thomas Tauris

Slides KIT_2016_SKA_Tauris.pdf

17 SKA1 Generic Surveys

Speaker: Dominik Schwarz

Slides schwarz-GLOWSKA2016SKAGenericSurveys.pdf

18 Coffee

19 A radio-view on cosmic evolution: The 3 GHz Karl G. Jansky VLA-COSMOS Survey

Speaker: Alexander Karim

Slides AKarim_JVLA-COSMOS-GLOWSKA-2016.pdf

20 MeerKAT and the MPIfR S-Band system

Speaker: Michael Kramer

Slides MeerKAT_S-Band_KIT.pdf

21 German SKA effort - future directions

Speaker: OPEN DISCUSSION

22 Summary and action items

Speaker: Ralf-Jürgen Dettmar

23 Bus transfer to Karlsruhe Main Station