Second Kavli Institute for Cosmology Workshop
Dates: June 27 - July 1 2016
REGISTRATION OPEN FROM 8.30AM ON MONDAY 27 JUNE 2016
**Updated 30/06/2016 15:20 - Please note that day 5 begins at 9:00 am**
Schedule: 4 days + 1 day informal discussion + tour Lord’s Bridge HERA work
Daily Schedule skeleton
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9:30 to 11:00: Formal talks morning: 20 to 30min talks
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11:30 to 13:00: Working group sessions semiformal talks
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14:00 to 16:00: Working group sessions structured break out
- 16:30 to 17:30: Topical plenary discussions led by group leads, plus breakout as needed
Morning Session Talks (30 min in day 1 and 20 min in days 2, 3 and 4 inc. questions)
- 21cm implications for astrophysics: Benoit Semelin (Day 1)
- 21cm implications for cosmology: Liu (Day 1)
- HERA: precision 21cm cosmology: Parsons (Day 1)
- Project updates: MWA (Jacobs), PAPER (Aguirre), LOFAR (Zaroubi), SKA (Wagg) (Day 2)
- Limits from highz quasars: McMahon (Day 3)
- Limits from highz galaxies: Michele Trenti (Day 3)
- Insights from the Lya forest: Haenhelt (Day 3)
- Crosscorrelation galaxies: Lidz (Day 3)
- Update from Planck and what’s next in CMB: Efstathiou (Day 4)
- Some Bayesian statistical tools and their use in Planck data analysis: Lasenby (Day 4)
- Bayesian approach to complex data analysis: Hobson (Day 4)
- Crosscorrelation CMB: Jelic (Day 4)
Topics for afternoon workshops AND MORNING INTRO TOPICAL SESSIONS
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Pipelines and Calibration - Day 1 (Lead: Bernardi)
- 11.30-12.00: SKA calibration framework (Alexander, 30min);
- 12.00-12.30: Interferometric calibration (Grobler, 30min);
- 12.30-13.00: LOFAR calibration and imaging (Offringa, 30min);
- 14.00-14.30: All-sky, full-polarization simulations (Nunhokee, 30min);
- 14.30-15.00: Redundant calibration and working examples on PAPER data (Cheng & Kohn, 30min);
- 15.00:15.30: MWA Calibration and imaging (and demo?) (Hazelton, 30min);
- 15.30:16.00: A first look at HERA data (Jacobs, 30min);
- 16.30-17.30: plenary discussion: a comparative discussion of the various calibration/processing approaches taken by the various experiments, including beam calibration, ionospheric calibration, requirements for imaging, RFI excision.
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Data/Instrument Simulation - Day 2 (Lead: Hazelton)
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Imaging
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Visibility
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Instrument Parameterization (E/M sims, real measurements)
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Presentations
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Eloy/Fagnoni: E/M modelling
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Ewall-Wice: HERA dish measurements
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Nithya: instrument design
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Dulwich/Mort: OSKAR
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FHD: (either Jonnie or Bryna)
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Carilli: Closure phase plus imaging with HERA
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Data reduction to power spectra (or similar statistics) - Day 3 (Dillon)
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Rapid fire morning talks to get ideas out (what are you focusing on / unique to you, what’s currently limiting you, how does it fit into the bigger problem), and afternoon more detailed and breakouts
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Power spectrum estimation
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Foreground avoidance/removal
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Presentations
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Zaki Ali: paper power spectrum pipeline (post calibration)
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Sims: Bayes stuff
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Josh: Mapmaking and Power Spectra
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Chapman: GMCA/FastICA
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Bryna: eppsilon
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Liu: Spherical Harmonics Power Spectra
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Mondal: statitistics of 21cm
- Parameter estimation - Day 4 (Mesinger)
- 11:30 -- 12:00 Review: 21cm simulations of the EoR/CD (Mesinger)
- 12:00 -- 12:20 EoR parameter recovery from interferometry (Greig)
- 12:20 -- 12:40 Parameter recovery from the global signal (Pritchard)
- 12:40 -- 13:00 Tools for 21cm tomography (Mellema)
- 13:00 -- 14:00 Lunch
- 14:00 -- 14:20 Beyond PS (Watkinson)
- 14:20 -- 14:40 Cosmology parameter recovery (Liu; tentative...)
- 14:40 -- 15:00 21cm simulations (Hassan)
- ------------ Code Demos ----------------------------------
- 15:00 -- 15:20 SimFast21 demo (Santos)
- 15:20 -- 15:40 21cmFast demo (Mesinger)
- 15:40 -- 16:00 21CMMC demo (Greig)
- 16:00 -- 16:30 coffee break
- 16:30 -- 17:30 Unstructured break-out sessions with code discussion leaders
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Workshop "The HERA Antenna System: Design and Performance" - Day 5 - morning (Hewitt/de Lera Acedo)
- ROOM F17 Battcock Centre
- 9:00 - 10:35 Group Status Reports and Updates - **Please note that day 5 begins at 9:00 am**
- 9:00 Cambridge1 - Eloy de Lera Acedo
- 9:10 Cambridge2 - Nima Razavi-Ghods (receivers)
- 9:20 NRAO - Rich Bradley
- 9:35 MIT - Jackie Hewitt
- 9:50 Berkeley - Aaron Parsons
- 10:05 Penn - James Aguirre
- 10:20 - 10:40 Break
- 10:40 - Noon Discussion and Planning