October 2013 SKA Engineering meeting agenda
Please note that the details for the Breakout sessions are
being finalised and are therefore still subject to change.
All breakout sessions are by invitation only.
Day 1: Monday, 7 October 2013
Day 2: Tuesday, 8 October 2013
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Day 3: Wednesday, 9 October 2013
* See SKA Indico web-page for details of venue, location, etc.
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Day 4: Thursday, 10 October 2013
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Detail of Thursday interface discussions:
Contact person: Tim Stevenson
Day 5: Friday, 11 October 2013
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Please note that the details for the Breakout sessions are
being finalised and are therefore still subject to change.
All breakout sessions are by invitation only.
Day 1: Monday, 7 October 2013
| Start Time | Description | Speaker |
| 10:00 | Registration | |
| 10:30 | Welcome | P. Diamond |
| 10:45 | Report from the Director General | P. Diamond |
| 11:00 | Science Capabilities and Focus of SKA1-low, -mid and -survey | R. Braun |
| 11:45 | Cradle of Life | M. Hoare |
| 12:15 | Epoch of Reionisation | L. Koopmans |
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Pulsars | B. Stappers |
| 14:30 | Transients | R. Fender |
| 15:00 | Cosmology | M. Jarvis |
| 15:30 | Tea/coffee | |
| 16:00 | Continuum | I. Prandoni |
| 16:30 | Local HI | T. Oosterloo |
| 17:00 | Cosmic Magnetism | F. Govoni |
| 17:30 | End of Day |
Day 2: Tuesday, 8 October 2013
| Start Time | Description | Speaker |
| 09:30 | Report from Head of Project and planning | J. Spyromilio |
| 10:15 | Discussion | All |
| 10:30 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:15 | SKA1 Level 1 Requirements | T. Cornwell |
| 12:00 | Question and answer session | All |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Infrastructure South Africa (INFRA SA) | T. Cheetham |
| 14:40 | Infrastructure Australia (INFRA AUS) |
S. Negus A. Schinckel S. Abeywickrema |
| 15:20 | Tea/coffee | |
| 15:40 | Dishes (DSH) | M. McKinnon |
| 16:20 | Low Frequency Aperture Array (LFAA) |
J.G. Bij de Vaate A. Faulkner P. Hall |
| 17:00 | Telescope Manager (TM) | N. Swaminathan |
| 17:40 | End of Day |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
| Description | Contact Person(s) | |
| Morning | ||
| 10:30 | System Engineering breakout for PDR discussion | J. Spyromilio |
Day 3: Wednesday, 9 October 2013
| Start Time | Description | Speaker |
| 9:00 | Signal and Data Transport (SaDT) | R. Oberland |
| 9:40 | Central Signal Processor (CSP) |
D. Stevens B. Carlson |
| 10:20 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 11:00 | Science Data Processor (SDP) | P. Alexander |
| 11:40 | Wide Band Single Pixel Feed (WBSPF) | M. Pantaleev |
| 12:20 | Lunch | |
| 13:20 | Mid Frequency Aperture Array (MFAA) |
A. Gunst S. Torchinsky S. Wijnholds |
| 14:00 | Assembly Integration and Verification (AIV) |
R. Lord A. MacLeod |
| 14:40 | Tea/coffee | |
| 15:10 | Breakout sessions | See table below |
| 17:00 | End of day | |
| 19:00 | Dinner: Museum of Science & Industry* |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
| Description | Contact Person(s) | |
| Morning | ||
| 9:00 to 12:00 | Science Working Group | R. Braun |
| Afternoon | ||
| 15:00 to 16:00 |
CSP consortium: SMART Work Package Discussion (CSP and SDP Consortia) |
D. Stevens |
| 16:00 to 17:00 |
CSP consortium: Common Platform Approaches (any interested parties) |
D. Stevens |
| 15:10 to 17:00 | Dish Optics | M. McKinnon |
| 15:10 to 17:00 | AIV-Infra-SaDT | R. Lord |
| 15:30 to 17:00 | Consortium Leaders Forum | J.G. Bij de Vaate |
| 15:10 to 17:00 | Telescope Manager | P. Swart & Y. Gupta |
Day 4: Thursday, 10 October 2013
| Start Time | Description | Speaker |
| 9:00 | Interface and other breakout sessions | - |
| 11:00 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:15 | Interface and other breakout sessions (continued) | - |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Interface and other breakout sessions (continued) | - |
| 16:30 | Interfaces wrap-up | T. Stevenson |
| 17:00 | End of day |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
| Description | Contact Person(s) |
| Morning | |
| The large conference room for combined interface session | T. Stevenson |
| Interface discussions | T. Stevenson |
| RFI/EMI task force | R. Millenaar |
| Operations Working Group (OWG) | D. Bock |
| SDP Consortium | H. Smith |
| Afternoon | |
| Interface discussions (continued) | T. Stevenson |
| AIV consortium | R. Lord |
| RFI/EMI task force (continued) | R. Millenaar |
| WBSPF consortium | M. Pantaleev |
| Infra AUS, Infra SA and Portuguese representatives | A. Schinckel and T. Cheetham |
| TM consortium | Y. Gupta |
| SDP consortium (continued) | H. Smith |
| Operations Working Group (OWG) (continued) | D. Bock |
Detail of Thursday interface discussions:
Contact person: Tim Stevenson
| Time | Room 1 | Room 2 | Room 3 | Room 4 |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Kickoff - All | |||
| 09:20 – 10:05 | SADT/DSH – Cremonini | TM/AIV – Hekman | INFRA/LFAA - Labate | CSP/SDP - Cornwell |
| 10:10 – 10:55 | SADT/AIV - Hekman | TM/LFAA - Labate | INFRA/CSP - Cloete | |
| 11:00 – 11:10 | Coffee | |||
| 11:15 – 12:00 | SADT/LFAA - Labate | TM/CSP - Cornwell | INFRA/DSH - Cremonini | |
| 12:05 – 12:50 | SADT/CSP - Cloete | TM/DSH - Cremonini | INFRA/AIV - Hekman | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch | |||
| 14:00 – 14:45 | SADT/SDP - McCool | AIV/CSP - Hekman | INFRA/TM - Cloete | |
| 14:50 – 15:35 | SADT/INFRA – Cloete | TM/SDP - Cornwell | DSH/CSP - Cremonini | |
| 15:40 – 16:25 | LFAA/CSP - Labate | TM/SADT - McCool | INFRA/SDP - Cloete | |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Wrapup |
Day 5: Friday, 11 October 2013
| Start Time | Description | Speaker |
| 9:00 | Concept of operations | D. Bock |
| 9:45 | Discussion | All |
| 10:30 | Tea/coffee | |
| 11:00 | Discussion session with Head of Project open issues | J. Spyromilio |
| 9:00 to 12:30 | Parallel breakout sessions | See table below |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Breakout sessions (continued) | See table below |
| 15:30 | Tea/coffee | |
| 16:00 | Break out sessions (continued) | See table below |
| 17:00 | End of day |
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
| Description | Contact Person(s) |
| Morning | |
| SaDT consortium | R. Schilizzi |
| RFI/EMI task force (continued) | R. Millenaar |
| Infra AUS | S. Negus and A. Schinckel |
| TM consortium (continued) | Y. Gupta |
| SDP Consortium (continued) | H. Smith |
| Afternoon | |
| SaDT consortium (continued) | R. Schilizzi |
| DSH consortium | M. McKinnon |
| Operations Working Group (OWG) (continued) | D. Bock |
| CSP consortium | D. Stevens |
| SDP consortium (continued) | H. Smith |
