SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Continuum

Europe/London
Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

Steve Rawlings Boardroom

SKA Office

Link to video archive
Working group summary
Workshop Agenda
    • 09:00 09:15
      Welcome and Introduction
    • 09:15 12:40
      Science Overview [focused on SKA1 perspectives/critical tech. requirements]
      • 09:15
        Science Case 1: Tracing SF in the Universe 25m
        Speaker: Murphy
        Slides
      • 09:40
        Science Case 2: Tracing AGN in the Universe 25m
        Speaker: Smolcic
      • 10:05
        Science Case 3: Diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters 25m
        Speaker: Ferrari
        Slides
      • 10:30
        Tea/Coffee 30m
      • 11:00
        Science Case 4: Galactic Science 25m
        Speaker: Umana
        Slides
      • 11:25
        Science Case 5: Cosmology with continuum surveys 25m
        Speaker: Bacon
        Slides
      • 11:50
        Science Case 6: Cosmic Magnetism 25m
        Speaker: Taylor
        Slides
      • 12:15
        Continuum Survey Simulations and Source Populations, or What will SKA1 Surveys Find? 25m
        Speaker: Condon
        Slides
    • 12:40 14:00
      Lunch 1h 20m
    • 14:00 17:30
      Precursor and Pathfinder Lessons [focus on SKA1 technical requirements to go a step beyond]
      • 14:00
        MWA 25m
        Speaker: Hurley-Walker
      • 14:25
        MeerKAT 25m
        Speaker: van der Heyden
        Slides
      • 14:50
        ASKAP 25m
        Speaker: Norris
        Slides
      • 15:15
        JVLA 25m
        Speaker: Condon
        Slides
      • 15:40
        Tea/Coffee 30m
      • 16:10
        eMERLIN 25m
        Speaker: Beswick
        Slides
      • 16:35
        LOFAR 25m
        Speaker: Heald
        Slides
      • 17:00
        GMRT 25m
        Speaker: Sirothia
    • 09:00 12:30
      Baseline Design and Requirements
      • 09:00
        Baseline Design 45m
        Speaker: Dewdney
        Slides
      • 09:45
        Science requirements: SKA Office perspective 15m
        Speaker: Huynh, Stevenson
        Slides
      • 10:00
        Science requirements: continuum science team perspective 40m
        Low frequency case (SKA1-Low) (Rottgering) Mid frequency case (SKA1-­‐Mid and SKA1-­‐Survey) (Seymour)
        Slides
      • 10:40
        Tea/Coffee 30m
      • 11:10
        Science requirements: magnetism science team perspectives 15m
        Speaker: Govoni
        Slides
      • 11:25
        Science requirements: cosmology science team perspectives 15m
        Speaker: Abdalla/Bacon
        Slides
      • 11:40
        Discussion: Baseline Design 50m
        Speaker: Braun, Huynh, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)
        Slides
    • 12:30 14:00
      Lunch 1h 30m
    • 14:00 15:00
      Baseline Design and Requirements (continued)
      • 14:00
        Discussion: Baseline Design - continued 1h
        Speaker: Braun, Huynh, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)
    • 15:00 16:30
      Operations Concept, Expected Data Products
      • 15:00
        Continuum surveys and computational issues 30m
        Speaker: Cornwell
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Tea/Coffee 30m
      • 16:00
        Discussion: Operations, Expected Data Products, Change Process 30m
        Speaker: Braun, Stevenson, Seymour (chairs)
    • 16:30 17:45
      Path to SKA2
      • 16:30
        SKA2 Science Case: dusty SF galaxies at z>4 25m
        Speaker: Sargent
        Slides
      • 16:55
        Discussion on path to SKA2 50m
        Speaker: Huynh, Braun, Taylor, Murphy (chairs)
    • 09:00 12:30
      Summary and Document Preparation
      • 09:00
        Summary of the workshop 1h
        Speaker: Huynh, Braun, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)
      • 10:00
        Document preparation 1h
      • 11:00
        Tea/Coffee 30m
      • 11:30
        Presentation and discussion of summary document 1h
        Speaker: Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h