Modeling Meerkats
July 17-19, 2019
Tuesday 16 July
17:00-19:00 Registration and Check-in
19:00 Dinner
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20:43 Penumbral Eclipse begins
22:01 Partial Eclipse begins
23:30 Maximum Eclipse
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Wednesday 17 July
​8:00-9:00 Breakfast
09:00 Romeel Dave - Welcome
09:15 Matt Jarvis (Oxford/UWC) MIGHTEE HI and continuum science update
10:00 Jacinta Delhaize (UCT) Cosmic beasts and where to find them: A demonstration of the might of MIGHTEE
10:30 Gyula I. G. Józsa (SARAO/Rhodes) MALS - goals and status
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
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11:30 Rosalind Skelton (SAAO) Optical ancillary data: Making the most of SALT for MeerKAT extragalactic projects
​12:00 Sthabile Kolwa (ESO) Observational constraints on radio-mode feedback using MeerKAT and optical/sub-mm data
12:30-14:00 lunch
14:00 Russ Taylor (IDIA) TBD
14:30 Sarah White (SARAO/Rhodes) Accretion and star formation in ‘radio- quiet’ quasars
15:00 Group discussion on current & future MeerKAT and ancillary observations (Leaders: Taylor & Skelton)
15:30 - 15:45 coffee
16:00-19:30 Sunset game Drive
19:30-22:00 Dinner
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Thursday 18 July
​8:00-9:00 Breakfast
09:30 Romeel Dave (Edinburgh/UWC) Simba predictions for HI and black holes
10:00 Robert Crain (Liverpool JMU) The radio Universe in the EAGLE suite of simulations
10:30 Lerothodi Leeuw(UNISA) Atomic Gas in Galaxies: A Critical Simulation Test
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
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11:30 Nicole Thomas (UWC) Radio AGN in Simba
12:00 Sarah Appleby (Edinburgh) Simba predictions for galaxy sizes and HI profiles
12:30-14:00 lunch
14:00 Sergio Martin-Alvarez (Oxford) On the origin of galactic magnetic fields
14:30 Luke Chamandy (University of Rochester) The evolution of magnetic fields in galaxies
​15:00 Marta Spinelli (INAF-OATs) The HI content of dark matter halos with GAEA
15:30-16:00 coffee
16:00 - Group discussion on current & future modelling and connections to data (Leaders: Crain + Henriques)
19:00-21:00 Dinner
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Friday 19 July
​5:00-8:30 Morning game drive
​​8:30-9:30 Breakfast
09:30 Weiguang Cui (Edinburgh) Simulating the local and nearby universe
10:00 Marcin Glowacki (IDIA/UWC) Incorporating observational effects to galaxy simulations for MeerKAT surveys
​10:30 Bruno Henriques (ETH - Zurich) Galaxy formation modelling with spatially resolved ISM and star formation
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30 Margherita Molaro (UWC): 21cm EoR modeling for HERA and SKA.
12:00 Jarita Holbrook (UWC) Film: SKA >= Karoo Radio Telescope
12:45-14:00 lunch
14:00 - Group discussion brainstorming data/model comparison ideas (Leaders: Jarvis + Dave)
15:30 ​ END OF CONFERENCE
15:30-16:00 coffee
19:00-21:00 Dinner