SKIRT Days 2024

24 Apr 2024, 09:00 → 26 Apr 2024, 22:00 Europe/Brussels

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Welcome to the SKIRT Days 2024 (24 – 26 April 2024)

The UGent SKIRT team happily invites past, current and future SKIRT users, developers and collaborators to attend the SKIRT Days 2024, from Wednesday 24 April to Friday 26 April in Ghent.

The SKIRT Days are a regularly returning event (see e.g. SKIRT Days 2022) that aims at presenting the latest technical developments, showcasing recent scientific results, and discussing ongoing and/or planned research in the broad SKIRT community. In addition, there will be a collaborative workspace for one-on-one discussions in an informal setting.

Updates

Thank you for registering for the SKIRT Days 2024, we look forward to meeting you in Ghent! We'd like to share the following information about the meeting:

• The conference schedule is flexible, meaning that within one block (morning or afternoon) there are no fixed time slots for the presentations. Hence, there is some flexibility regarding the duration of the presentations. As a guideline, aim for a presentation of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes of questions. If your talk is a bit shorter or longer than this timeslot that would be totally fine too.
• On Wednesday, the venue will be open from 9am onwards for the registration, the conference then starts at 10am.
• Social activity I: On Wednesday evening, we will go bowling at 8pm. The bowling itself is going to be free for all participants, so join us at O'Learys for a fun evening!
• Social activity II: On Friday afternoon/evening, we planned an excursion/conference dinner in Brakel, which is going to be free for all participants. The transport from Ghent to Brakel is organized via shuttle buses, leaving Ghent at 3pm and arriving back in Ghent around 10pm. You're welcome to bring your walking boots and swimming gear. We'll share more detailed information about the social activities at the meeting.
• We created a WhatsApp group which we can use to coordinate any dinner or bar plans, or in case you have any logistical questions. Join by clicking the link you received in the e-mail!

Program

 A non-exhaustive list of topics to be discussed:

• Dust radiative transfer
• X-ray radiative transfer 
• LTE and non-LTE line radiative transfer on atoms and molecules
• Post-processing cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
• AGN nuclei and circumnuclear media
• Resonant line radiative transfer, including Lyman-alpha
• Monte Carlo radiative transfer techniques
• Radiative transfer benchmarks
• Radiative transfer and machine learning
• Comparing synthetic to actual observations
  
  

The SKIRT Days will start at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday and end at 13:00 on Friday. A detailed timetable will be published later.

Venue

The 2024 edition of the SKIRT Days takes place in convention center WATT The Firms, Nieuwewandeling 62. The workshop will be in-person only owing to its interactive nature.

Registration

To register, please send an email to skirtdays2024@gmail.com. All attendees are invited to present their SKIRT related work at the meeting (we also welcome work-in-progress presentations). Therefore, please include the title of your presentation to the registration email. Note that the number of participants will be limited. 

Registration deadline: 15 March 2024.

The registration fee is 150 euros. This includes all coffee breaks and two lunches. Please finalise your registration by proceeding to the payment page.

Getting there

Ghent is easily reached by public transport from most major cities in Western Europe (there are at least two direct trains to/from Brussels each hour). The nearest airport is Brussels Airport Zaventem.

Ghent has a reliable public transport network with a large number of buses. It is possible to buy the tickets online, at the ticket machines at the station, or inside the vehicle with a bank card (cash not possible).

The easiest way to reach WATT The Firms from Gent Sint Pieters station (the main train station of Ghent) is with the P4 bus (Perron 6). The bus comes every 10 minutes during the day. If you are arriving from Ghent town centre, you can take the bus 10, 11, or 12a (Perron 3) at the Korenmarkt, these buses arrive every few minutes. In both cases, you exit on Gent Brugsepoort (Brugsepoortstaat), and can then reach the conference building by foot in less than 5 minutes.

Lodging

Ghent is a popular tourist destination, with many hotels and AirBnBs.

Contact

With further questions, you can contact skirtdays2024@gmail.com.

Hope to see you in Ghent!

Maarten Baes, Andrea Gebek, Inja Kovačić, Kosei Matsumoto, and Bert Vander Meulen

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Wednesday 24 April

09:00 → 10:00 Registration and coffee

10:00 → 10:30 Welcome

Speaker: Maarten Baes

10:30 → 10:50 How to simulate the reddest galaxies ever

Speaker: Andrea Gebek

10:50 → 11:10 X-ray modelling of the AGN torus with SKIRT

Speaker: Bert Vander Meulen

11:10 → 11:30 X-ray polarization in hot/cold AGN media in the IXPE era

Speaker: Daniele Tagliacozzo

11:30 → 11:50 Radiative transfer models for AGN dusty torus using a new chemical composition

Speaker: Omar Ulises Reyes Amador

12:30 → 13:00 Lunch

13:00 → 13:20 Self-consistent dust and non-LTE line radiative transfer in SKIRT

Speaker: Kosei Matsumoto

13:20 → 13:40 Multiwavelength spectral and broadband synthetic observations with TODDLERS

Speaker: Anand Utsav Kapoor

13:40 → 14:00 Spatially resolved mock observations of stellar kinematics

Speaker: Arjen van der Wel

14:00 → 14:20 Understanding the discrepancies of SFR estimates in the JWST era

Speaker: Diana Ismail

14:20 → 14:40 Creating a mock universe for WEAVE-StePS

Speaker: Alina Ikhsanova

14:40 → 15:00 The TNG50-SKIRT High-resolution Integral Field Unit catalogue

Speaker: Nick Andreadis

17:00 → 17:15 Anticipated end

20:00 → 20:15 Bowling (free)

Thursday 25 April

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee

09:30 → 09:50 Dust and SED evolution in isolated galaxy simulations

Speaker: Kosei Matsumoto

09:50 → 10:10 CLONES: Digital twins of the local Universe

Speaker: Jenny Sorce

10:10 → 10:30 Postprocessing the NIHAO simulations with SKIRT

Speaker: Mitali Damle

10:35 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:20 Reverberation mapping simulations of Active Galactic Nuclei

Speaker: Gijs Vanoppen

11:20 → 11:40 Constraining the broad line region size of quadruply lensed quasars with microlensing

Speaker: Djordje Savic

11:40 → 12:00 Using SKIRT to model the MIR emission of Micro-lensed Quasars

Speaker: Kriti Gupta

12:30 → 13:30 Group photo and lunch

13:30 → 13:50 Mock HI maps and the size-mass relation

Speaker: Andrea Gebek

13:50 → 14:10 Simulating the Tully-Fisher relation with SKIRT

Speaker: Maarten Baes

14:10 → 14:30 Rotation Curves from Cosmological Simulation: Mock HI Cubes

Speaker: Sabelo Kunene

14:30 → 14:50 Hidden in the shadows: Dark HI clouds

Speaker: Mathieu Willems

14:50 → 15:20 Coffee

15:20 → 15:40 Local galactic dust effects and their link to SN Ia

Speaker: João Ricardo Dias Duarte

15:40 → 16:00 Predicting the dust emission from supernova remnants with SKIRT

Speaker: Tassilo Scheffler

16:00 → 16:20 Tetrahedral grids in SKIRT

Speaker: Arno Lauwers

17:00 → 17:15 Anticipated end

Friday 26 April

09:00 → 09:30 Coffee

09:30 → 09:50 The TNG50-SKIRT Atlas and fun stuff we can do with it

Speaker: Maarten Baes

09:50 → 10:10 Galaxy morphology as a test of galaxy evolution models: Parametric modelling

Speaker: Abdissa Emana

10:10 → 10:30 Non-parametric morphology of TNG50 galaxies

Speaker: Sena Bokona

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee

11:00 → 11:20 Extracting the distribution of physical parameters in nearby galaxies with machine learning

Speaker: Inja Kovačić

11:20 → 11:40 Dust Extinction Variations in the Local Group

Speaker: Karl Gordon

11:40 → 12:00 Diffuse interstellar bands and SKIRT dust populations

Speaker: Alexander Ebenbichler

12:00 → 12:20 Wrap-up

Speaker: Bert Vander Meulen

12:30 → 12:45 Anticipated end

15:00 → 15:15 Get-together & dinner in Brakel 15-22h (free)

Bring your walking/swimming gear

15:00 Bus leaves from Ghent
22:00 Back in Ghent by bus