PHISCC-2017 Scientific Programme

6-10 February, 2017

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics

 

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: Thijs van der Hulst)

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 Jasjeet Singh Bagla A deep survey for gas-rich galaxies with the uGMRT

Biography

Nissim Kanekar obtained his B.Sc. from Mumbai University in 1993 (studying at Ramnarain Ruia College), his M.Sc. from Pune University in 1995, and his Ph.D. from Pune University in 2000, with the doctoral research carried out at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics. After a NOVA Fellowship at the Kapteyn Instituut, Groningen, The Netherlands, and a Jansky Fellowship and a Max-Planck Fellowship, both at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, USA, he joined the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in September 2009 as a Reader and a Ramanujan Fellow. He is currently an Associate Professor and a DST Swarnajayanti Fellow at NCRA-TIFR.


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