18–19 May 2017
Cottons Hotel
UTC timezone
Over the past several months there has been extensive activity directed at constraining the construction and operating costs of the SKA1 deployment as much as possible, without unduly impacting the scientific capabilities of the observatory. The SKAO has worked closely with the Design Consortia and was assisted by the Science Representatives of the SKA Board in this endeavour. The SKA Board of Directors have now accepted a preliminary package of cost reduction measures that will receive further technical development prior to a decision to update the project design. The package is constructed as an ordered list of measures that allow delivery of an Observatory for a prescribed budget, while permitting the straightforward reinstatement of any impacted capability with additional funding. Funding at the level of the SKA1 construction cost cap is sufficient to retain the ability to deliver every one of the “high priority science objectives” that were identified for the SKA1. This “Town Hall” meeting provides the opportunity to brief the scientific community on the preliminary package of cost reduction measures and for the community to report on their scientific assessments of such measures across the entire breadth of SKA science.
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Cottons Hotel
D1AM_01_McPherson_Technical_Introduction.pdf
D1AM_01_McPherson_Technical_Introduction.pptx
D1AM_02_Braun_Science_Introduction.pdf
D1AM_02_Braun_Science_Introduction.pptx
D1AM_03_Heald_SAT1.pdf
D1AM_03_Heald_SAT1.pptx
D1AM_04_Possenti_SAT2.pdf
D1AM_04_Possenti_SAT2.pptx
D1AM_05_Ferrari_SAT3.key
D1AM_05_Ferrari_SAT3.pdf
D1PM1_Santos_Cosmology.key
D1PM1_Santos_Cosmology.pdf
D1PM2_Hoare_CoL.pdf
D1PM2_Hoare_CoL.pptx
D1PM3_Pritchard_EoR.pdf
D1PM4_Sargent_Hardcastle_ExGal_Continuum.pdf
D1PM5_Beswick_ExGalLines.pdf
D1PM5_Beswick_ExGalLines.pptx
D1PM5QA_Bolton_SDP_system_sizing.pdf
D2AM1_Meyer_HI.pdf
D2AM2_Heald_CosMag.pdf
D2AM2_Heald_CosMag.pptx
D2AM3_Thompson_Our_Galaxy.pdf
D2AM4_Ferdman_Pulsars.pdf
D2AM5_Kontar_Solar.pdf
D2AM5_Kontar_Solar.pptx
D2AM6_Fender_Transients.pdf
D2PM1_Bray_HECP.pdf
D2PM2_Paragi_VLBI.pdf
D2PM3_Braun_TownHall_Wrap-up.pdf
D2PM3_Braun_TownHall_Wrap-up.pptx