Name: SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Cosmology
Start: 2014-01-13T10:00:00+00:00
End: 2014-01-15T12:45:00+00:00
Location: SKA Office

SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Cosmology

from Monday, 13 January 2014 (10:00) to Wednesday, 15 January 2014 (12:45)

Monday, 13 January 2014

10:00 Welcome & Introduction
Welcome & Introduction
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
10:15 The big questions in Cosmology - Maartens
The big questions in Cosmology
- Maartens
10:15 - 10:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
10:45 Coffee/Tea
Coffee/Tea
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
11:15
11:15 - 17:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
Contributions

11:15 Continuum Survey - Jarvis

11:45 Discussion

13:30 HI galaxy survey - Abdalla

14:00 Discussion

14:30 HI Intensity mapping

15:00 Discussion

16:00 Cosmology with EoR - Pritchard

16:30 Discussion

17:00 Foreground issues: HI IM/EoR - Abdalla
Tuesday, 14 January 2014
09:00 Constraints from SKA
Constraints from SKA
09:00 - 12:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
Contributions

09:00 Weak Lensing - Brown

10:00 Discussion

11:00 Cross-correlation with other data

11:30 Discussion (including David Bacon presentation on doppler lensing)
12:15 Lunch
Lunch
12:15 - 13:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
13:30
13:30 - 17:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
Contributions

13:30 Current SKA baseline design (Phase 1 and 2) - Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

14:15 Technical considerations (effect of antenna distribution, etc) - Smirnov

15:00 Possible request for change: continuum survey - Jarvis

16:00 Possible request for change: HI IM - Santos

16:30 Possible request for change: WL - Bacon

17:00 Discussion of any outstanding issues
Wednesday, 15 January 2014
09:00 Changes to baseline configuration
Changes to baseline configuration
09:00 - 10:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
Contributions

09:00 Summary of cosmology proposed BD changes - Jarvis

09:15 Summary of pulsars proposed BD changes

09:30 Discussion of issues arising
10:45 Coffee/Tea
Coffee/Tea
10:45 - 11:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

11:15 Summary of the workshop and preparation of report
Summary of the workshop and preparation of report
11:15 - 12:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom