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South African-European Federated Cloud Piloting Meeting

2019/09/11 by mfundo

The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy (IDIA) recently participated in the Federated Cloud Piloting at Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy from 10-11 September 2019. The purpose of the meeting was to launch the pilot demonstration project of a South African – European federated cloud to support collaboration on SKA Pathfinder data intensive large programs between South African and European research teams. This meeting … Read More

IDIA and INAF Observatories of Catania and Cagliari to sign agreement

2019/09/05 by carolune

On 10 September 2019, the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) are signing an agreement to collaborate in radio astronomy research. The research in particular will utilize virtual Reality (VR) technologies on radio astronomy data coming from the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, starting with its precursor, the MeerKAT. VR is not … Read More

Ilifu User Engagement held at SANBI, UWC

2019/09/04 by mfundo

Researchers, digital curators and digital librarians embarked upon the South African National Bioinformatics Institute at the University of the Western Cape as part of the Ilifu User Engagement Workshop 2019. The aim of Ilifu is to engage South African researchers at the partner organisations to be global pioneers in the strategic science domains of astronomy and bioinformatics and simultaneously promote … Read More

Multi-Wavelength Astronomy in the Cloud Workshop

2019/08/14 by mfundo

The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the South African Astronomical Observatory would like to invite you to a workshop about multi-wavelength astronomy, current and future data challenges, and how cloud computing technology can help to address them. The Multi-Wavelength Astronomy in the Cloud Workshop will be held at the SAAO Auditorium on 26 August 2019 from 09h00 – 17h00. The aim … Read More

Ilifu User Engagement Workshop

2019/08/12 by mfundo

The ilifu consortium would like to invite current and prospective users of the ilifu cloud computing facility to a user engagement workshop where we will present the current status of the ilifu cloud computing facility and opportunities to run new Astronomy and Bioinformatics projects on the facility. This workshop aims to provide support and background information for the current call for … Read More

Strategic Science Communication

2019/08/12 by mfundo

We were excited once again to host our second instalment of the SEADS seminar series. We were proud to host students, academics and researchers from various universities including the University of the Western Cape, University of Stellenbosch and the University of Cape Town. This second talk was given by MJ Schwartz from the Cape Town Science Centre. MJ has been … Read More

New UP Postdoctoral Fellow Joins IDIA

2019/07/16 by mfundo

We are excited once again to announce that IDIA is proud to welcome a new Postdoctoral Fellow who will be joining the University of Pretoria. Since joining the partnership in 2018, the University of Pretoria has grown its research, researchers and science in the IDIA-supported project “Artificial Intelligence enhanced wide-field VLBI surveys: precursor science to the full SKA”. Dr. Jack … Read More

Job shadowing, a great opportunity for High School learners

2019/07/03 by carolune

We were very happy to welcome Kiara, a Grade 11 learner from Edgemead High School during the last school holidays. She spent two days at IDIA getting to see what work we do from taking part in a curriculum design workshop to the IDIA data processing pipeline. We also got the opportunity to visit the South African National Bioinformatics Institute, … Read More

SEADS announcement: Strategic Science Communication

2019/07/02 by carolune

For the second instalment of the SEADS (Science Engagement And Development Seminar) series, we are welcoming the Cape Town Science Centre. Strategic Science Communication MJ Schwartz, Education Manager, Cape Town Science Centre Science communication is a powerful tool for engaging society, able to bring about measurable differences. In order to maximise the reach and impact of science communication, strategic infrastructure … Read More

superMIGHTEE Workshop held at Kruger National Park

2019/06/24 by mfundo

Astronomers from India and South Africa descended upon the Kruger National Park to kick off the superMIGHTEE Workshop from 05 – 07 June 2019. superMIGHTEE is the joint exploration of the Deep Sky with uGMRT and MeerKAT, and evolved from a series of joint workshops co-sponsored by India’s Department of Science and Technology and South Africa’s National Research Foundation bilateral, … Read More