SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Continuum

9 Sept 2013, 08:00 → 11 Sept 2013, 14:00 Europe/London

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

Link to video archive https://polyrss.skatelescope.org/portal/views/main.jsf

Working group summary Final report

Workshop Agenda cont_science_assess_program.pdf

Monday, 9 September

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

Speaker: Murphy

Slides 01.Murphy.pdf

09:40 Science Case 2: Tracing AGN in the Universe

Speaker: Smolcic

10:05 Science Case 3: Diffuse radio sources in galaxy clusters

Speaker: Ferrari

Slides 02.Ferrari.pdf

10:30 Tea/Coffee

11:00 Science Case 4: Galactic Science

Speaker: Umana

Slides 03.Umana.pdf

11:25 Science Case 5: Cosmology with continuum surveys

Speaker: Bacon

Slides 04.Bacon.pdf

11:50 Science Case 6: Cosmic Magnetism

Speaker: Taylor

Slides 05.Taylor.pdf

12:15 Continuum Survey Simulations and Source Populations, or What will SKA1 Surveys Find?

Speaker: Condon

Slides 09.Condon.pdf

12:40 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 17:30 Precursor and Pathfinder Lessons [focus on SKA1 technical requirements to go a step beyond]

14:00 MWA

Speaker: Hurley-Walker

14:25 MeerKAT

Speaker: van der Heyden

Slides 07.VanderHeyden.pdf

14:50 ASKAP

Speaker: Norris

Slides 08.Norris.pdf

15:15 JVLA

Speaker: Condon

Slides 09.Condon.pdf

15:40 Tea/Coffee

16:10 eMERLIN

Speaker: Beswick

Slides 10.Beswick.pdf

16:35 LOFAR

Speaker: Heald

Slides 11.Heald.pdf

17:00 GMRT

Speaker: Sirothia

Tuesday, 10 September

09:00 → 12:30 Baseline Design and Requirements

09:00 Baseline Design

Speaker: Dewdney

Slides 12.Dewdney.pdf

09:45 Science requirements: SKA Office perspective

Speaker: Huynh, Stevenson

Slides 13.Huynh.pdf

10:00 Science requirements: continuum science team perspective

Low frequency case (SKA1-Low) (Rottgering) Mid frequency case (SKA1-­‐Mid and SKA1-­‐Survey) (Seymour)

Slides 14.Rottgering.pdf 15.Seymour.pdf

10:40 Tea/Coffee

11:10 Science requirements: magnetism science team perspectives

Speaker: Govoni

Slides 18.Govoni.pdf

11:25 Science requirements: cosmology science team perspectives

Speaker: Abdalla/Bacon

Slides 16.Abdalla.pdf 17.Jarvis.pdf

11:40 Discussion: Baseline Design

Speaker: Braun, Huynh, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)

Slides 19.Braun.pdf

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 15:00 Baseline Design and Requirements (continued)

14:00 Discussion: Baseline Design - continued

Speaker: Braun, Huynh, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)

15:00 → 16:30 Operations Concept, Expected Data Products

15:00 Continuum surveys and computational issues

Speaker: Cornwell

Slides 20.Cornwell.pdf

15:30 Tea/Coffee

16:00 Discussion: Operations, Expected Data Products, Change Process

Speaker: Braun, Stevenson, Seymour (chairs)

16:30 → 17:45 Path to SKA2

16:30 SKA2 Science Case: dusty SF galaxies at z>4

Speaker: Sargent

Slides 21.Sargent.pdf

16:55 Discussion on path to SKA2

Speaker: Huynh, Braun, Taylor, Murphy (chairs)

Wednesday, 11 September

09:00 → 12:30 Summary and Document Preparation

09:00 Summary of the workshop

Speaker: Huynh, Braun, Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)

10:00 Document preparation

11:00 Tea/Coffee

11:30 Presentation and discussion of summary document

Speaker: Prandoni, Seymour (chairs)

Slides 22.Prandoni.pdf

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch