SPARCS XIII 2025
The SKA Pathfinder Radio Continuum Survey (SPARCS) Working Group began back in 2011 with the following goals:
-To coordinate developments of techniques, to avoid duplication of effort and ensure that each project has access to best practices;
-To hold cross-project discussions of the specific science goals, to ensure cross- fertilisation of ideas and optimum survey strategies;
-To coordinate the surveys in their choice of area, depth, location on the sky, and other survey parameters, to maximise the scientific return from the surveys;
- To distill the SKA pathfinder experiences as an input to the SKA
We invite talks from anyone working on sueveys with pathfinders and precursors or early SKA. The topics can be scientific as well as technical or methods related.
SPARCS
SPARCS 2025
The meeting this year will be held November 3-7th 2025 in Cairns Australia as well as virtually.
The space can hold approximately 60 people so register early if you want to attend, first come first served and waitlist will open.
Important Dates:
-Registration and abstract submission opens: April 5th 2025
-Abstract submission closes: June 14th 2025
-In-person Registration deadline: August 29th 2025 (or if space fills)
To register and or submit an abstract go to registration page.
For information on the accommodation, see the venue page.
Code of Conduct
The organizers are committed to making this meeting productive and enjoyable for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, nationality or religion. We will not tolerate harassment of participants in any form. Please follow these guidelines:
-Behave professionally. Harassment and sexist, racist, or exclusionary comments or jokes are not appropriate. Harassment includes sustained disruption of talks or other events, inappropriate physical contact, sexual attention or innuendo, deliberate intimidation, stalking, and photography or recording of an individual without consent. It also includes offensive comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race or religion.
-All communication should be appropriate for a professional audience including people of many different backgrounds. Sexual language and imagery is not appropriate.
-Be kind to others. Do not insult or put down other attendees.
Participants asked to stop any inappropriate behaviour are expected to comply immediately. Attendees violating these rules may be asked to leave the event at the sole discretion of the organisers without a refund of any charge. Any participant who wishes to report a violation of this policy is asked to speak, in confidence, to any of the LOC or SOC members.
This code of conduct is based on the “London Code of Conduct”, as originally designed for the conference “Accurate Astrophysics. Correct Cosmology”, held in London in July 2015. The London Code of Conduct was adapted with permission by Andrew Pontzen and Hiranya Peiris from a document by Software Carpentry, which itself derives from original Creative Commons documents by PyCon and Geek Feminism. It is released under a CC-Zero licence for reuse. To help track people’s improvements and best practice, please retain this acknowledgement, and log your re-use or modification of this policy at https://github.com/apontzen/london_cc
Organising Committee:
SOC: Kenda Knowles, Tessa Vernstrom, Jeroen Stil, Russ Taylor, Mattia Vaccari, Roland Timmerman, Wonki Lee, Francesca Loi, Yjan Gord, Brad Frank, Betsey Adams, Roland Kothes
LOC:Tessa Vernstrom, Tim Galvin, Stefan Duchesne, Alec Thomson
Join the Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/sparcs-team/shared_invite/zt-tj3rhbev-VZTOuROctIgxRzCWoFKcMg
SPARCS Wiki: http://spacs.pbworks.com/w/page/26926199/FrontPage
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