Partnerships

South African-European Federated Cloud Piloting Meeting

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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

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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

Multi-Wavelength Astronomy in the Cloud Workshop

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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

superMIGHTEE Workshop held at Kruger National Park

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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

New Postdoctoral Fellow Joins IDIA

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The Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy welcomes Dr. Matt Prescott, our new postdoctoral researcher, based at University of the Western Cape. Dr. Matt Prescott joins us under joint Fellowship between the Inter-University Institute for Data Intensive Astronomy and the Centre for Radio Cosmology at theUniversity of the Western Cape. He shall be under the guidance of both Prof. Mario Santos and Prof. Russ Taylor. … Read More

IDIA researchers awarded science projects with the MeerKAT telescope

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Researchers from IDIA partner universities, especially junior researchers, were remarkably successful in gaining access to the MeerKAT telescope for new science projects. This means more opportunities for young scientists, more scientific discoveries, and lots of big data in need of powerful computing infrastructure in this age of mammoth scientific experiments. How do astronomers get to use telescopes? It is a … Read More

IDIA Welcomes Visiting Scholar from India

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IDIA welcomes Dharam Lal, a visiting scholar.  Prof. Dharam is an Associate Professor at the Tata Institute for Fundamental Research – National Centre for Radio Astrophysics in Pune, India.   He is the Indian project leader for South Africa- India superMIGHTEE collaboration to extend the MIGHTEE project to lower frequencies by combining MeerKAT and the upgraded GMRT observations. Prof. Dharam’s research … Read More