Inaugural of South Africa—China Bilateral Workshop Series “Cosmology with Large Surveys” and Opening Ceremony of UKZN—NAOC Joint Centre
19th November to 26th November, 2016
Protea Hotel Umhlanga Rocks, Protea Mall, Cnr Lighthouse and Chartwell Drive, Durban
Saturday, 19th November
Arrival, registration
Sunday, 20th November
Additional arrival and registration
Optional City Excursion:
Morning: Umgeni River Bird Park, Moses Mabhida Stadium, Durban Botanic Garden
Afternoon: uShaka Marine World
(see “social event page”)
Evening: Welcome reception (7pm, Protea Hotel Umhlanga Rocks)
Monday, 21st November (Protea Hotel Umhlanga Rocks)
Morning Section. Opening ceremony of UKZN-NAOC Joint Centre for computational astrophysics
Chair: Prof. Deo Jaganyi
Deputy Vice-Chancellor
College of Agriculture, Engineering & Science, UKZN
9:30—10:00 Arrival of Guests
Tea & Coffee
10:00—10:15 Welcome & Introduction
Dr. Albert Van Jaarsveld
Vice-Chancellor & Principal, UKZN
10:15—10:35 Introduction to Chinese Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory
Prof. Jinxin Hao
Director of National Astronomical Observatory, China
10:35—10:55 Introduction to South Africa Astronomy [ppt]
Mr. Takalani Nemaungani
10:55—11:15 South Africa—China bilateral collaboration and UKZN—NAOC partnership in Astronomy [ppt]
Dr. Yin-Zhe Ma
11:15—11:30 Deputy Director-General, Department of Science and Technology
Dr Thomas Auf der Heyde
11:30—11:45 Mr. Jian-Zhou Wang, Chinese Consulate-General
11:50—12:05 Signing of the Memorandum of Understanding on stage: Leadership groups of South Africa and China
12:05—12:25 Group Photo
12:25—13:50 Lunch (Lighthouse Restaurant at ground floor)
Afternoon Session: Inaugural of South Africa—China bilateral workshop
Overview of South Africa and China astronomy projects I: From SKA to FAST (Chair: Xuelei Chen)
14:00—14:40 Invited Talk: Bernie Fanaroff (SKA South Africa)— SKA and MeerKAT: Where are we and where are we going? [ppt]
14:40—15:20 Invited Talk: Di Li (NAOC China)— A Drift Scan Commensal Survey Plan by FAST [ppt]
15:20—15:50 Tea break
Overview of South Africa and China astronomy projects II: Optical Survey and large-scale structure (Chair: Luis Ho)
15:50—16:30 Invited Talk: Ted Williams (SAAO)— Toward a China – South Africa Partnership for Southern Optical Facilities for Observational Cosmology [ppt]
16:30—17:00 Invited Talk: Yipeng Jing (SJTU)— Redshift space distribution and the growth rate [ppt]
17:00—17:30 Invited Talk: Petri Vaisanen (SAAO)—- Using SALT for Surveys [ppt]
17:30—18:50 Dinner at Lighthouse restaurant
Evening Session: Public Engagement (Chair: Lerothodi Leeuw)
19:00—19:15 Address: Nithaya Chetty (NRF)
19:15—19:45 Justin Jonas (SKA and Rhodes): MeerKAT as SKA precursor [ppt]
19:45—20:15 Shuang-nan Zhang (NAOC and IHEP, CAS): Two Space High Energy Astrophysics Missions of China: POLAR and HXMT [ppt]
20:15—21:00 Questions and Answers
Tuesday, 22nd November
Morning session. High Energy Astrophysics (Session Chair: Rainer Spurzem)
09:00-09:30 Invited Talk: Luis Ho (KIAA PKU) Supermassive Black Holes Across Cosmic Time [ppt]
09:30-10:00 Invited Talk: Soebur Razzaque (University of Johannesburg) Cosmological binary black hole merger rates from the ultra-luminous X-ray source progenitors [ppt]
10:00-10:20 Zunli Yuan (Yunnan Observatories, CAS) Probing the cosmic evolution of radio AGNs by the radio luminosity function [ppt]
10:20-10:40 Coffee break & Poster
cont. High Energy Astrophysics (Session Chair: Zuhui Fan)
10:40-11:10 Invited Talk: Xue-Bing Wu (Peking University) Ultra-luminous quasars with the most massive black holes at cosmic dawn [ppt]
11:10-11:30 Rainer Spurzem (NAOC) Black Holes and gravitational waves from dense star clusters [ppt]
11:30-11:50 Xi Luo (North-West University) A Numerical Investigation of Cosmic Ray Modulation Near the Heliopause [ppt]
11:50-12:20 Panel Discussion I: High energy astrophysics (Confirmed panel members: Sergio Colafrancesco, Xuebing Wu, Fan Zhang, Soebur Razzaque, Zunli Yuan, Shuang-nan Zhang*)
12:20-13:20 Lunch
Afternoon session. Cosmology I: large-scale structure (Session Chair: Yipeng Jing)
13:30-14:00 Invited Talk: Sergio Colafrancesco (Wits University) Beyond the standard lore of the SZ effect: prospect for large multifrequency surveys [ppt]
14:00-14:20 Zuhui Fan (Peking University) Probing the universe with weak gravitational lensing effects [ppt]
14:20-14:40 David Gilbank (South African Astronomical Observatory) Cosmology with RCS-2 [ppt]
14:40-15:00 Yuting Wang (NAOC) Tomographic BAO analysis of BOSS DR12 combined sample [ppt]
15:00-15:20 Poster presentation
15:20-15:40 Tea break & Poster
cont. Cosmology 1: large-scale structure (Session Chair: Yan Gong)
15:40-16:10 Invited Talk: Liang Gao (NAOC) The segregation of dark matter and baryons during halo assembly [ppt]
16:10-16:30 Pierre Fleury (University of Cape Town; University of the Western Cape) Biases in cosmological distance measurements [ppt]
16:30-16:50 Pavan Kumar Aluri (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Direction dependence of cosmological parameters due to Cosmic Hemispherical Asymmetry [ppt]
16:50-17:10 Lan Wang (NAOC) Galaxy population in a Cold and a Warm Dark Matter Cosmology [ppt]
18:30-21:00 Banquet
18:30-19:30 Starter and main course
19:30-20:00 After dinner talk: Qi-Ming Wang (SKA headquarter) [ppt], Introduced by Ross Robinson (UKZN)
20:00-20:30 Dessert
Wednesday, 23rd November
Morning session. Galaxies and Optical survey (Session Chair: Matt Hilton)
09:00-09:30 Invited Talk: Renee C. Kraan-Korteweg (University of Cape Town) Galaxy flow fields and hidden structures in the Zone of Avoidance [ppt]
09:50-10:10 Ilani Loubser (North-West University) Unraveling the special properties of the most massive early-type galaxies [ppt]
10:10-10:30 Guoliang Li (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS) Exploring Point Spread Function Combining Star and Galaxy Image [ppt]
10:30-11:00 Panel Discussion II: Galaxies and Galaxy clusters (Confirmed panel members: David Gilbank, Matt Hilton, Ilani Loubser, Guoliang Li, Jie Wang, Renee Kraan-Korteweg*)
11:00-11:20 Coffee break & Poster
Radio Astronomy 1: Epoch of Reionization (Session Chair: Mario Santos)
11:20-11:50 Invited Talk: Gianni Bernardi (SKA SA & Rhodes University) Epoch of reionization and Cosmi Dawn with the redshifted 21cm line [ppt]
11:50-12:10 Marta Spinelli (University of the Western Cape) Polarized synchrotron for EoR experiments [ppt]
12:10-12:30 Jingying Wang (University of the Western Cape) The Application of Bayesian Nonparametric Estimation Methods in the Extraction of Cosmological Reionization 21cm Signals [ppt]
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Afternoon session. Radio Astronomy 2: HI galaxy, Intensity Mapping and Foreground (Session Chair: Cynthia Chiang)
14:00-14:30 Jonathan Sievers (UKZN) HIRAX and Fast Radio Burst
14:30-14:50 Xuelei Chen (NAOC) The Tianlai experiment and 21cm cosmology [ppt]
14:50-15:10 Roger Deane (Rhodes University) Gravitationally lensed HI: synergies between FAST and MeerKAT [ppt]
15:10-15:30 Geoffrey Beck (Wits University) Dark Matter with the 21cm Background [ppt]
15:30-15:50 Coffee break & Poster
cont. Radio Astronomy 2: HI galaxy, Intensity Mapping and Foreground (Session Chair: Rui-Qing Mao)
15:50-16:20 Invited Talk: Matt Jarvis (UWC/Oxford) Galaxy Evolution and Cosmology with MIGHTEE [ppt]
16:20-16:40 Yan Gong (NAOC) Intensity mapping of H-alpha, [OIII], [OII] and H-beta at z < 5 [ppt]
16:40-17:00 Moumita Aich (UKZN) The C-BASS All Sky Survey [ppt]
17:00-17:20 Song Chen (University of Western Cape) Next generation radio continuum survey with stacking and P(D) analysis. [ppt]
17:20-17:50 Panel Discussion III: Cosmology with Large-survey Structure (simulation, lensing and theory) (Confirmed panel members: Zuhui Fan, Kavilan Moodley*, Yipeng Jing, Pierre Fleury, Yuting Wang, Matt Jarvis)
17:50-18:20 Panel Discussion IIIV: Cosmology with radio astronomy (Intensity mapping, EoR, and others) (Confirmed panel members: Gianni Bernardi, Mario Santos, Di Li, Roger Deane, Xuelei Chen*)
Thursday, 24th November
Morning session. Cosmology 2: HI and its cross-correlation (Session Chair: Catherine Cress)
08:30-09:00 Invited Talk: Mario Santos (UWC) Cosmology with MeerKAT and SKA1-MID [ppt]
09:00-09:20 Kavilan Moodley (UKZN) Cross-correlation of CMB with 21cm intensity mapping [ppt]
09:20-09:40 Qingbo Ma (Purple Mountain Observatory, CAS) Cross-Correlations of kSZ with 21 cm signal and Cosmic Opacity [ppt]
09:40-10:10 Coffee break & Poster
cont. Cosmology 2: HI and its cross-correlation (Session Chair: Kavilan Moodley)
10:30-10:50 Tianyue Chen (Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, The University of Manchester) BINGO – A Novel Single-Dish HI Intensity Mapping Experiment [ppt]
10:50-11:10 Aurelie Penin (UKZN) The HI power spectrum beyond linear scales in the post reionization era [ppt]
11:10-11:40 Yin-Zhe Ma (UKZN) Concluding remark and Outlook for future collaboration
11:40-12:00 Xuelei Chen (NAOC) Acknowledgement
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Afternoon: Leave to Hluhluwe national park (optional social event, see social event page)
Friday, 25th November
Safari in Hluhluwe national park (optional tour, see social event page)
Saturday, 26th November
Leave Durban
Affiliation (alphabetical):
KIAA, PKU: Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Peking University
NAOC: National Astronomical Observatory China
NRF: National Research Foundation, China
PMO, CAS: Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Science
UCT: University of Cape Town
UWC: University of the Western Cape
UKZN: University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
SAAO: South African Astronomical Observatory
SJTU: Shanghai Jiaotong University
Wits: University of Witwatersrand