Programme

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Tuesday 13 June
18:00 Reception at Hotel de Borken  
     
     

Wednesday 14 June
09:00 Registration  
09:15 Welcome  
     
 
Status of the telescopes and data available for early science
Chair: E. Sadler
09:30 ASKAP Status Update James Allison (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)
09:55 MeerKAT Bradley Frank (University of Cape Town)
10:20 FAST status and update Yogesh Chandola (NAOC)
10:45 Coffee  
11:15 Apertif Betsey Adams (ASTRON)
11:35 Status and progress of Apertif Tom Oosterloo (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)
11:55 Opportunities from VLBI Zsolt paragi (JIVE)
12:15 Discussion: Status of the telescopes (chair: E. Sadler)
     
13:00 Lunch  
     
 
Experience built and tools available for the handling and analysis of new data
Chair: N. Gupta
14:00 Automated data processing for uGMRT and MeerKAT absorption line surveys Ravi Sharma and Dolly Gyanchandani(ThoughtWorks)
14:25 The Last Survey of the old WSRT: tools and results for the future HI absorption surveys Filippo Maccagni (ASTRON - Kapteyn Institue)
14:50 Machine learning for HI absorption Stephen Curran (Victoria University of Wellington)
15:15 Coffee  
15:45 A statistical method for measuring the HI spin temperature James Allison (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)
16:10 Status of SKA for HI absorption Martyin Meyer (ICRAR/UWA)
16:35 Discussion: Status of the analysis tools (chair: N. Gupta)
17:30 Drinks  
     
     

Thursday 15 June
 
Planning for the HI absorption surveys
Chair: T. Oosterloo
09:30 Using HI Absorption to Probe the CGM and IGM in Galaxy Groups Eric Wilcots (University of Wisconsin)
09:55 Evolution of Cosmic Gas Density Lister Staveley-Smith (ICRAR/UWA)
10:20 A successful search for intervening 21 cm HI absorption at 0.4 < z < 1 with ASKAP Elaine Sadler (University of Sydney)
10:45 Coffee  
11:15 Blind HI and OH absorption line search: status update on MALS and early results from uGMRT Neeraj Gupta (IUCAA)
11:40 SHARP: the HI absorption survey with Apertif Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON - Kapteyn Institue)
12:05 Discussion: Planning for large surveys (chair: T. Oosterloo)
     
12:45 Lunch  
     
 
Early science results before the large surveys
Chair: J. Allison
14:00 HI Absorption with CHILES Julie Davis (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
14:25 Linking absorption and emission measurement of the CGM with IMAGINE Attila Popping (ICRAR/UWA)
14:50 The spin temperature of damped Lyman-alpha absorption systems and star formation history Stephen Curran (Victoria University of Wellington)
15:15 Distribution of cold gas around galaxies Rajeshwari Dutta (IUCAA)
15:40 Coffee  
16:00 HI absorption towards low luminosity radio AGNs of different accretion modes and WISE colours Yogesh Chandola (NAOC)
16:25 Cold Gas in High Redshift Active Galaxies Aditya JNHS (IUCAA)
16:50 Discussion part I: Strategy for optical/mm/other follow-up of the large surveys (chairs: Allison and van der Hulst)
17:30 End second day  
     
  Social dinner  
     
     

Friday 16 June
 
Early science results before the large surveys (continue)
Chair: T. van der Hulst
09:30 Searching for HI absorption in the brightest southern radio galaxies Elizabeth Mahony (University of Sidney)
09:55 Atomic gas in the halo of a massive proto-cluster galaxy: prospects for high-z HI studies Bjorn Emonts (Centro de Astrobiologica)
10:20 Discussion part II: Strategy for optical/mm/other follow-up of the large surveys (chairs: Allison and van der Hulst)
10:50 Coffee  
     
 
Follow-up and synergies
Chair: N. Maddox
11:20 Probing HI outflows on parsec scales in radio galaxies with VLBI Robert Schulz (ASTRON)
11:45 Parsec-scale HI absorption structure in a low-redshift DLA galaxy Martin Zwaan (ESO)
12:10 Lunch  
13:30 Connecting HI and soft X-ray absorption in distant AGN with next-generation telescopes Vanessa Moss (ASTRON)
13:55 HI and CO absorption against the cores of Brightest Cluster Galaxies Alastair Edge (Durham University)
14:20 The role of the cold atomic gas in our Galaxy and beyond Raymond Oonk (ASTRON / Leiden)
14:45 Unveiling the physical conditions of neutral gas with radio recombination lines Kimberly Emig (Leiden Observatory)
15:10 Final wrap up and discussion chaired by the SOC
15:40 End of workshop  
     

 

 

 

 

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