SKA Cosmic Dawn-Epoch of Reionization Science Assessment Workshop

26 Mar 2013, 08:00 → 28 Mar 2013, 18:00 Europe/London

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

A science assessment workshop focused on the SKA1 Baseline Design and its ability to conduct science observations relevant to Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization was hosted by the SKA Office on 2013 March 26–28.

Working group summary final report

Workshop Agenda AssessmentWorkshopSchedule.pdf

Tuesday, 26 March

09:00 → 13:00 Introduction & Science Overview

09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Dr Joseph Lazio (SPDO), Prof. Philip Diamond (SKA Organisation)

09:20 Science Overview: H I global signal and power spectrum

Speaker: Pritchard

Slides 01_-_Pritchard-SKA_Low-lr-version.pdf

10:05 Science Overview: 21 cm forest

Speaker: Mack

Slides 02_-_Mack_21cmForest.pdf

11:00 Science Overview: foregrounds

Speaker: Abdalla

Slides 03_-_Abdalla_SKA_Mar13.pdf

11:30 Science Overview: radio recombination lines and foregrounds

Speaker: van Bemmel

11:50 Discussion

Speaker: Santos (Chair)

13:00 → 17:00 Session: Precursor and Pathfinder lessons

13:00 PAPER

Speaker: Aguirre

Slides 05_-_Aguirre_SKA1_Low_PAPER_March2013.pdf

13:40 GMRT

Speaker: Chang/Pen

Slides 06_-_Pen_gmrt.pdf

14:20 LOFAR

Speaker: de Bruyn

Slides 07_-_deBruyn-SKA-AAlow-lr-version.pdf

15:00 MWA

Speaker: Briggs

Slides 08_-_Briggs_MWA_lessons_March2013-lr-version.pdf

15:40 LEDA

Speaker: Greenhill

16:20 EDGES

Speaker: Bowman

Slides 10_-_Bowman_EDGES.pdf

Wednesday, 27 March

09:00 → 12:30 Baseline Design

09:00 Science requirements: Office perspective

Speaker: Huynh

Slides 11_-_Huynh_Science-Reqs-and-DRM.pdf

09:15 Science requirements: Community perspective

Speaker: Koopmans

Slides 12_-_Koopmans-SKA-Low-Science-Requirements.pdf

09:30 Baseline Design

Speaker: Dewdney

Slides 13_-_Dewdney_SKA_EoR_Sc_Assess_Baseline_Design_2013jan30RevB.pdf

11:00 Computational issues

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 14_-_Cornwell-SKA_Low_scienceassessmentcomp.pdf

11:30 Discusson of Baseline Design

Speaker: Mellema, Huynh

14:00 → 17:30 Operations Concept

14:00 State of Numerical Simulations 1

Speaker: Semelin

Slides 15_-_Semelin-SKA_Low.pdf

14:25 State of Numerical Simulations 2

Speaker: Ahn

Slides 16_-_Ahn_SKA.pdf

14:50 Discussion: expected data products (including intermediate products), ancillary data, meta-data

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 17_-_Cornwell-SKA_Lowscienceassessmentdataproducts.pdf

16:00 Path to SKA2

Speaker: Webster, Koopmans, Huynh, Dewdney

16:45 Discussion

Thursday, 28 March

09:00 → 12:30 Changes and Summary

09:00 Changes to the Baseline Design

Speaker: Stevenson

Slides 19_-_Stevenson-Change.pdf

09:30 Summary of workshop

Speaker: Lazio, Huynh, Koopmans, Pritchard

10:00 Document preparation (with coffee break when needed)

11:30 Presentation of summary document