[ASA] Registration is open: 2019 12th PHISCC meeting in Perth

[O. Ivy Wong]

Dear Colleagues, This is the first announcement for the 2019 12th PHISCC 
meeting – one of the first PHISCC meetings where the_main focus is on 
the new science emerging from the much anticipated SKA precursors and 
pathfinders_. As is tradition, the PHISCC workshop's plenary session 
will span 2.5 to 3 days (11-13 February 2019). In the upcoming PHISCC 
workshop, the plenary session will be followed by a set of technical 
hands-on or strategic focus sessions, where together, the plenary 
session and the focus sessions will span the full week starting the 11th 
February 2019. Places for this workshop are limited to a maximum of 80 
participants but there is a chance that we might have to close 
registration early if we reach this number before the early-bird 
registration deadline of 15 December 2018. Therefore we encourage 
everyone to register early. Please register your participation using the 
following URL: 
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/T5CZCXLKZoi13KXzs6h7hg?domain=icrar.org The science 
themes covered by the 2019 PHISCC plenary sessions are: 1)blind HI 
surveys; 2) high-redshift HI; 3) cold HI (through absorption); 4) 
targeted HI surveys; and 5) Synergies across radio facilities and 
simulations. Confirmed invited speakers are: James Allison (Oxford); 
Erwin de Blok (ASTRON); Sarah Blyth (UCT); Tzu-Ching Chang (JPL); 
Rajeshwari Dutta (ESO); Kelley Hess (ASTRON); Renée Kraan-Korteweg 
(UCT); Claudia Lagos (ICRAR/UWA); Karen Lee-Waddell (CSIRO); Natasha 
Maddox (Munich); Jonghwan Rhee (ICRAR/UWA); Paolo Serra (INAF-Cagliari); 
Marc Verheijen (Kapteyn); Zheng Zheng (NAOC); Ming Zhu (NAOC). The focus 
sessions will bring together active HI astronomers from across the 
different facilities and survey teams for the purposes of:
1) sharing expertise and knowledge of what works and does not in this 
new era of radio facilities;
2) understanding the methods currently employed to mitigate the 
challenges faced by these new HI observations;
3) learning the latest tools and software through hands-on tutorials and 
demonstrations. The current confirmed focus sessions and champions of 
these sessions are in parentheses: i)Reference Fields (Betsey Adams); 
ii) Database & products for public release (Lister Staveley-Smith); 
iii)RFI flagging and mitigation (Vanessa Moss); iv) Data quality 
assessment (Betsey Adams); v) New lessons in high/deep dynamic range 
imaging (Oleg Smirnov); vi) Visualisation (Russ Taylor); vii) Source 
finding (Tobias Westmeier); viii)Source parameterisation (Se-Heon Oh); 
and specific team focus sessions for DINGO, FLASH, Fornax (MeerKAT); 
MHONGOOSE, MIGHTEE-HI & WALLABY. Regards, Ivy Wong (on behalf of the 
SOC) SOC: Marc Verheijen (PHISCC chair); Ivy Wong (SOC chair); Sarah 
Blyth; Erwin de Blok; Nissim Kanekar; Martin Meyer; Se-Heon Oh; Kristine 
Spekkens; Lister Staveley-Smith; Jacqueline van Gorkom & Ming Zhu

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Dr O. Ivy Wong
ICRAR-M468, University of Western Australia
Crawley, Western Australia 6009, AUSTRALIA
Phone: +61-8-6488-7761
Email: ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au<mailto:ivy.wong at uwa.edu.au>
Webpage: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/7nLICYWL1viQPlL4sGWuzc?domain=icrar.org
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