(version
5, 2 March 2005, RTS)
0830 Opening remarks - TBD
Session 1: Reports from the International SKA Project
Office
0840 Overview of activities - Richard Schilizzi
(Project Director)
0900 Engineering Working Group - Peter Hall (Project
Engineer)
0920 Science Working Group – Steve Rawlings (chair)
0940 Site Evaluation Working Group - Yervant Terzian
(chair)
1000 Simulation Working Group - Steven Tingay (chair)
1020 Operations Working Group – Ken Kellermann (chair)
1030 Outreach Committee – Michael Kramer (chair)
1040 Tea/Coffee
Session 2: Programmatic
Reports
1110 Australian Major National Research Facilities
1120 Canadian Long-Range Plan for Astronomy
1130 Mega-science Projects in China
1140 European Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes
1150 India
1200 South Africa
1210 US Technology Development Plan
1220 Lunch
1220 Meeting of the Outreach Committee (review of Pune activities, long-term outreach, IAU GA
2006 activities, SKA animation, budget)
Session 3: Summaries of Key Science Workshops held in
2005
1400 Probing the Dark Ages: HI and the Epoch of
Reionization Signal
1430 The Evolution of Galaxies and Large-scale
Structure
1500 Tea/Coffee
1530 The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism
1600 Strong Field Tests of General Relativity Using
Pulsars and Black Holes
1630 The Cradle of Life: Protoplanetary Disks
1700 Break, transport to venue for evening lecture
1830 Evening lecture: Particle Astrophysics,
Cosmology, General Relativity and the SKA
Session 4: SKA Demonstrators
and Pathfinders
0830 The Allen Telescope Array
0900 The Deep-Space Network
0915 Pre-loaded Dishes
0930 LOFAR
1000 Phased Arrays
1015 Small dishes+focal plane arrays
1100 Small dishes+focal plane arrays
1115 Large Adaptive Reflector
1130 Small dishes+focal plane arrays
1145 Large Adaptive Reflector
1230 EWG comments on demonstrator progress
key engineering issues
1300
Lunch
1400-1730
EWG Task Forces (preparation of sub-system white
papers, industry policy)
SWG (new compliance matrix, science constraints on
site choice, new science issues, key science project competition)
SEWG (preparation for evaluation of site proposals)
OWG (preparation of white paper)
SimWG
(review of the configuration simulations process
for site proposals; discussion of figures-of-merit for configurations;
presentation of a method for evaluating proposed configurations; discussion of
configuration evaluation and what the ISPO require from the Configuration
Simulation Task Force)
Session 6: parallel discussions (continued)
0830-1230
EWG (preparation of sub-system white papers, industry
policy)
SWG (new compliance matrix, science constraints on
site choice, new science issues, key science project competition)
1230 Lunch
Session 7: plenary session on the Key Science Project
matrix (chairs: Steve Rawlings, Peter Hall)
1400-1715 presentations and open discussion
1715 Summary of SKA 2005 – Richard Schilizzi
1730 Closing remarks - Phil Diamond
0800-1400 Visit to GMRT including a session on GMRT
Science
1500-1730 software industry forum (Pune)
1900 dinner
0830-1730 ISSC meeting
0830-1730 ISSC Meeting
Peter Hall
Michael Kramer
Pramesh Rao (LOC
chair)
Steve Rawlings
Richard Schilizzi
(SOC chair)
Yervant Terzian
Steven Tingay
Peter Wilkinson