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SKAO: the French astrophysics community is rallying behind the world’s largest radio observatory
PRESS RELEASE - Tuesday 26 May 2026 SKAO: the French astrophysics community is rallying behind the world’s largest radio observatoryA three-day conference to prepare French astronomy for the Square Kilometre Array eraFrom 19 to 21 May, the French astrophysics...
International hackathon in Rennes on DDFacet and RIMS
For a week in March, IRISA in Rennes hosted a hackathon bringing together around ten researchers, engineers and PhD students from France, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The event focused on two main areas: improving the DDF Pipeline radio astronomy imaging...
Webinar : Rank-one projections for compressive radio interferometric imaging
Rank-one projections for compressive radio interferometric imaging Radio-interferometry (RI) observes the sky at unprecedented angular resolutions, enabling the study of several far-away galactic objects such as galaxies and black holes. In RI, an array of antennas...
Webinar : First Dataflow Modeling of the DDFacet Imager for Acceleration Using FPGA Coprocessors
First Dataflow Modeling of the DDFacet Imager for Acceleration Using FPGA CoprocessorsThis webinar presents the first dataflow modeling of the DDFacet imager, a cutting-edge radio astronomy imaging and deconvolution framework and how this dataflow model will be used...
Webinar – HPC as a Service for Radio Astronomy
HPC as a Service for Radio Astronomy: A Practical Case Study with the DDF SoftwareBased on a concrete use case in radio astronomy, this webinar will show how HPC as a Service approaches make it possible to: efficiently manage scientific data logistics, integrate...
From HPC to astronomy: the journey of Ophélie Renaud
Ophélie Renaud, a postdoctoral researcher in high-performance computing, simulates the behavior of algorithms for the future SKAO giant telescope. Her objective? To anticipate the technical challenges associated with the explosion of astronomical data and optimise...