Asian-Pacific SKA science meeting 2026

9 Feb 2026, 08:45 → 13 Feb 2026, 18:00 Asia/Bangkok

Kantary Hills hotel in Chiang Mai

Hideyuki Kobayashi (NARIT)

[Meeting rationale]

Construction of the SKA is progressing smoothly in South Africa for the Mid telescope and in Australia for the Low telescope.  In past, regional workshops have been held in Asia to foster future research collaboration, technological development, and SRC development cooperation for the SKA. This time, a workshop will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand to discuss research collaboration in the Asia-Pacific region. We look forward to the participation of many researchers, engineers, and students.

[Code of Conduct]

Please note that we will adhere to the code of conduct established by SKA. By participating in this meeting, you agree to comply with these guidelines.

Ethics | SKAO

 

[Sessions and Invited speakers]

• Project status
  • Phil Diamond (SKAO)
  • Tyler Bourke (SKAO)
• Regional Activities
• EoR
  • Ahn, Kyungjin(Chosun University)
• Cosmology
  • Abhirup Datta (IIT Indore)
• Galaxy Evolution/Nearby galaxies/Galaxy
• Diffuse synchrotron radiation /Continuum/Magnetism
  • Alec Thomson (SKAO)
  • Haruka Sakemi (Yamaguchi Univ.)
• Pulsar and Gravitational wave/ Transient
  • Di Li(Tsinghua Univ.)
• Cradle of life
  •  Danny Price (SKAO)
• VLBI
  • Tessa Vernstrom(CSIRO)
  • Viswesh Marthi  (NCRA)
• Solar science
• Engineering
  • Ruta Kale(NCRA)
• SRC

Additional invited speakers are under review and will be selected from among the submitted abstract proposals.

***Excursion to TNRT 40m telescope, NARIT lab. and Astropark museum is planned.

[Accommodations]
1. We have secured preferential rates at the venue (Kantary Hills, Chiang Mai) as an accommodation for the meeting participants with the following way: The participants can email to the salesperson of the hotel (https://www.kantaryhills-chiangmai.com/contact/) directly for their room booking and inform the hotel that you are attending the “NARIT APSKA2026”. You have to include the word NARIT here, so that they know who we are. There are only 32 rooms available under the block reservation, and bookings will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

2. Other hotels near the event venue:

This period is just before the Chinese New Year and tends to be crowded, but please also consider using the following hotels near the venue.

– Kantary Hills Hotel, Chiang Mai: https://www.kantaryhills-chiangmai.com/
– Travelodge Nimman, Chiang Mai: https://www.travelodgehotels.asia/travelodge-nimman/
– Kokotel Chiang Mai Nimman: https://www.kokotel.com/chiang-mai-nimman/
– Eastin Tan Chiang Mai: https://www.eastinhotelsresidences.com/eastintanchiangmai
– U Nimman Chiang Mai: https://www.uhotelsresorts.com/unimmanchiangmai
– Stay with Nimman, Chiang Mai: https://www.staywithnimman.com/
– Moose Hotel Nimman: https://moosehotel.com/moosehotel-nimman/
– Novotel Chiang Mai Nimman Journeyhub: https://www.novotelchiangmai.com/th/
– ibis Chiang Mai Nimman Journeyhub: https://www.ibischiangmai.com/
– HOP INN Chiang Mai: https://www.hopinnhotel.com/our-hotels/hop-inn-chiang-mai

[Invitation Request (for Visa Purpose)]

For participants who require an official invitation letter for visa application purpose, please fill the online form in the registration. Just in case, you are also encourage to send your request to organizers by email. Please submit your invitation requests as the earliest convenience by Invitation Request Deadline “December 15th, 2025” to allow sufficient time for processing and delivery. If there is any question or concern about the visa, please contact the organizers.

[Notification for Entering Kingdom of Thailand]
Since May 1st, 2025, Kingdom of Thailand has required “ALL foreigners” to register your schedule in advance through the Thailand Digital Arrival Card web-page below:
https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/home
You are required to complete the Thailand Digital Arrival Card form “no more than 3 days prior” to your arrival in Thailand.

 

Poster 20251001.pdf

Monday, 9 February

08:45 → 09:00 Opening

Convener: TBD

08:45 Welcome remarks

Speaker: Wiphu Rujopakarn

08:55 Opening remarks

Speaker: Kobayashi Hideyuki

09:00 → 11:30 SKA update: SKA update 1

Convener: TBD

09:00 SKA Status update (TBD) (invited)

Speaker: Diamond Philip (SKAO)

09:30 SKA Operations Planning(TBD)(invited)

Speaker: Kaczmarek Jane (SKAO)

10:00 Science with SKA(Invited)

Speaker: Tyler Bourke (SKAO)

10:30 Coffee break and Posters

11:00 SKAO Commissioning Update(TBD)(Invited)

11:30 → 18:00 Regional activities

11:30 Chinese activity(TBD)(Invited)

12:00 Korean activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Sohn Bong Won

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Japanese activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Shimabukuro Hayato

14:30 Australian activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Minh Huynh

15:00 Indian activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Yashwant Gupta

15:30 Coffee break and Posters

16:00 Canadian activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Kristine Spekkens

16:30 Thai activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Koichiro Sugiyama

17:00 Vietnum activity(TBD)(Invited)

Speakers: Pham Ngoc Diep, Quang Nguyen Luong

Tuesday, 10 February

09:00 → 14:00 Epoch of Reionization

Convener: TBD

09:00 Probing the global 21-cm signal via the integrated Sachs-Wolfe effect on the 21-cm background (Invited)

Speaker: Ahn Kyungjin

09:30 Recovering redshifted 21 - cm power spectrum : residual gain effects in Interferometric Observations with SKA1-Low

Speaker: Saikat Gayen (IIT (BHU), Varanasi)

09:50 Primordial Magnetic Fields and Early Structure Formation: Implications for the High-Redshift 21 cm Signal

Speaker: Mr HITEN HITEN (NIT Calicut)

10:10 Prospects for detecting and characterizing individual ionized bubbles in HI 21-cm signal during the epoch of reionization using SKA1-Low AA⋆ and AA4

Speaker: ARNAB MISHRA (Jadavpur University)

10:30 Coffee break and Posters

11:00 Prospects for detecting and characterizing individual ionized bubbles in HI 21-cm signal during the epoch of reionization using SKA1-Low AA⋆ and AA4

Speaker: Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (CSIRO)

11:20 Optimising for a future EoR experiment with the SKA-Low

Speaker: Eric Jong

11:40 Measuring EoR 21-cm power spectrum from SKA-low observations

Speaker: Samir Choudhuri (IIT Madras)

12:00 The Tracking Tapered Gridded Estimator for the 21-cm power spectrum from MWA drift scan observations -- III. Multiple pointings

Speaker: Shouvik Sarkar (Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras))

12:20 Lunch

14:00 → 16:40 Cosmology

Convener: TBD

14:00 Cosmology with uGMRT and SKA(Invited)

Speaker: Abhirup Datta

14:30 Probing Galaxy Evolution and Magnetization in the Saraswati Supercluster: Insights from SKA Precursor and Pathfinder

Speaker: RAGHUNATH GHARA (IISER Kolkata)

14:50 The Cosmic Dipole Tension: View with the SKA

Speaker: Geraint Lewis (The University of Sydney)

15:10 Cosmology with radio continuum galaxies from the ASKAP-EMU survey

Speaker: David Parkinson (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)

15:30 Coffee break and Posters

16:00 Unveiling the Radio Universe with Machine Learning

Speaker: Nikhel Gupta (CSIRO Space & Astronomy)

16:20 Machine Learning and Information Content in 21cm Cosmology

Speaker: Yi Mao (Tsinghua University)

16:40 → 17:40 Galaxy Evolution/Nearby galaxies/Galaxy

Convener: TBD

16:40 TBD

Speaker: Craig Anderson

17:10 TBD

Speaker: Min-Youn Lee

Wednesday, 11 February

09:00 → 13:00 Galaxy Evolution/Nearby galaxies/Galaxy

Convener: TBD

09:00 ASKAP-FAST-SKA-mid HI synergies

Speaker: Lister Staveley-Smith (ICRAR/UWA)

09:20 Probing Galaxy Evolution and Magnetization in the Saraswati Supercluster: Insights from SKA Precursor and Pathfinder

Speaker: Sameer Salunkhe (NCRA-TIFR)

09:40 ASKAP Deep HI survey (DINGO): Mapping Neutral Gas Content of Galaxies out to z~0.4

Speaker: Jonghwan Rhee (CSIRO)

10:00 Spinning HI galaxies in a 15 Mpc-long rotating cosmic filament at redshift 0.03

Speaker: Yuxiang Qin (Australian National University)

10:20 Spinning HI galaxies in a 15 Mpc-long rotating cosmic filament at redshift 0.03

Speaker: Lyla Jung

10:40 Coffee break and Posters

11:00 Machine-learning aided source-finding for large HI surveys

Speaker: Ivy Wong

11:20 Exploring irregular radio galaxies: insights for SKA surveys

Speaker: Tapan Sasmal (National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC))

11:40 Lunch

13:00 → 18:00 Excursion (TNRT and Astro Park)

Thursday, 12 February

09:00 → 11:40 Diffuse synchrotron radiation /Continuum/Magnetism

09:00 All-sky Faraday rotation studies(Invited)

Speaker: Alec Thomson

09:30 Magnetic Fields of High-Energy Astrophysical Objects Explored with SKA Precursors(Invited)

Speaker: Haruka Sakemi (Yamaguchi University)

10:00 Can we find the highest redshift CSS sources by selecting <100MHz spectral turnovers?

Speaker: Alexander Hedge (Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy)

10:20 Non-thermal perspective of merging galaxy clusters in the SKA Era

Speaker: Ramananda Santra (National Center for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR))

10:40 Coffee break and Posters

11:00 Tracing the formation of Hybrid Morphology Radio Sources in Cluster Environments

Speaker: Pavan Khadekar (IISER Pune)

11:20 Origin of an Off-center Diffuse Radio Source in Abell 1060 from XRISM/Resolve Spectroscopy

Speaker: Kohei Kurahara (Nagoya University)

11:40 → 16:30 Pulsar and Gravitational wave/ Transient

11:40 An Evolutionary Picture of FRBs' Origin(Invited)

Speaker: Di Li

12:10 Targeted Pulsar Surveys: Discoveries using SKA pathfinders, and Strategies for SKA

Speaker: Yogesh Maan (NCRA - TIFR, India)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 Discovering Radio Pulsars with TRAPUM Targeting Fermi-LAT Sources

Speaker: Tinn Thongmeearkom (NARIT)

14:20 Neutron Star Equation of State from SKA Observation

Speaker: DEBADRI BHATTACHARJEE (IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development (ICARD), Department of Physics, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University (CBPBU), India)

14:40 LIGHT as a pathfinder for SKA: Searching for long-period transients in GMRT archival data

Speaker: Kshitij Bane (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR))

15:00 Real-time search for fast transients with SPOTLIGHT at the GMRT

Speaker: Dr Sridhar Gajendran (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR))

15:20 Break

15:50 New Insights About Pulsars from SKA Observations

Speaker: Dr Pradip Kumar Chattopadhyay (IUCAA Centre for Astronomy Research and Development (ICARD), Department of Physics, Cooch Behar Panchanan Barma University)

16:10 Magnetic Massive Stars in the SKA Era: Low-Frequency Insights from uGMRT Surveys

Speaker: Ayan Biswas (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)

16:30 → 17:00 Cradle of life

16:30 SKA cradle of life science(TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Danny Price

Friday, 13 February

09:00 → 11:20 VLBI

09:00 Demonstrating Low-Frequency VLBI in the Southern Hemisphere for SKA-Low(Invited)

Speaker: Tessa Vernstrom (CSIRO)

09:30 Low Frequency VLBI in India and Asia : potential for SKA(Invited)

Speaker: Viswesh Marthi

10:00 Low-Frequency VLBI Network Using SKA-LOW

Speaker: Hideyuki Kobayashi (NARIT)

10:20 From Nearby Faint AGNs to a Dormant SMBH: VLBI Studies toward the SKA-VLBI Era

Speaker: Xiaopeng Cheng (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)

10:40 Coffee break and Posters

11:00 Asia-Pacific VLBI with SKA-mid

Speaker: Chris Phillips (CSIRO)

11:20 → 11:40 Solar Science

11:20 Measurement of Coronal Magnetic Fields using VLBI Polarimetry

Speaker: Prasad Rathod

11:40 → 14:00 Engineering

11:40 Data processing pipelines for uGMRT and SKA(Invited)

Speaker: Prof. Ruta Kale (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA-TIFR))

12:10 Cross-Array Calibration for 21-cm Experiments: Deep uGMRT Images of HERA Fields

Speaker: Khandakar Md Asif Elahi (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)

12:30 Lunch

14:00 → 16:30 SRC

14:00 Developments in India for SRCNet(Invited)

Speaker: Yogesh Wadadekar

14:30 JPSRC (TBD)(Invited)

Speaker: Kiyotomo Ichiki

15:00 Australian SRC(Invited)

Speaker: Karen Lee Waddell

15:30 KRSRC(Invited)

Speaker: Shing-Young Kim

16:00 Coffee break and Posters

16:30 → 18:00 Group discussion: Gruop discussion

16:30 Group discussion

17:30 Closing remarks