SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Cosmology

13 Jan 2014, 10:00 → 15 Jan 2014, 12:45 UTC

Steve Rawlings Boardroom (SKA Office)

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

Working group summary COSMOLOGY-_sci-assess-wshop-20feb.pdf

Monday, 13 January

10:00 → 10:15 Welcome & Introduction

10:15 → 10:45 The big questions in Cosmology

Speaker: Maartens

Slides Maartens-Cos-Ass-wshop-13jan2014.pdf

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee/Tea

11:15 → 17:30 Constraints from SKA

11:15 Continuum Survey

Speaker: Jarvis

Slides Jarvis_cosmoSWG.pdf

11:45 Discussion

12:15 Lunch

13:30 HI galaxy survey

Speaker: Abdalla

Slides Manchester_Jan14.pdf

14:00 Discussion

14:30 HI Intensity mapping

Slides MSantos_SKA.pdf

15:00 Discussion

15:30 Coffee/Tea

16:00 Cosmology with EoR

Speaker: Pritchard

Slides Pritchard_EOR.key

16:30 Discussion

17:00 Foreground issues: HI IM/EoR

Speaker: Abdalla

Slides Manchester_Jan14.pdf

Tuesday, 14 January

09:00 → 12:15 Constraints from SKA

09:00 Weak Lensing

Speaker: Brown

Slides ska_jan14.key

10:00 Discussion

10:30 Coffee/Tea

11:00 Cross-correlation with other data

Slides SKA_Cosmol_WG_Jan14_CaroleJ.pdf

11:30 Discussion (including David Bacon presentation on doppler lensing)

Slides dopplerska.key

12:15 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 17:15 Changes to baseline configuration

13:30 Current SKA baseline design (Phase 1 and 2)

Speaker: Dr Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)

Slides Cosmology_SKA_Science.pdf

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

Speaker: Smirnov

Slides 2014Jan-SKACosmology-Smirnov.pdf

15:00 Possible request for change: continuum survey

Speaker: Jarvis

Slides ContinuumCosmology_ChangeRequest.ppt

15:30 Coffees/Tea

16:00 Possible request for change: HI IM

Speaker: Santos

Slides MSantos_SKA2.pdf

16:30 Possible request for change: WL

Speaker: Bacon

Slides SKA_WL.key

17:00 Discussion of any outstanding issues

Wednesday, 15 January

09:00 → 10:45 Changes to baseline configuration

09:00 Summary of cosmology proposed BD changes

Speaker: Jarvis

Slides ContinuumCosmology_ChangeRequest1.pdf

09:15 Summary of pulsars proposed BD changes

Slides SKA-SAS-Cosmology-Jan2014.pdf

09:30 Discussion of issues arising

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee/Tea

11:15 → 12:45 Summary of the workshop and preparation of report