Contact:
Nanuschka Csonka-de Wolf
SKA International Project Office,
office manager
Program
|
Presentations | Pictures | Participants |
| 10.00 | Opening remarks and welcome (Harvey Butcher, Executive Director, ASTRON) |
| 10.10 | SKA project overview (Richard Schilizzi, Director, International SKA Project Office) |
| 10.45 | SKA engineering challenges (Peter Hall, Project Engineer, International SKA Project Office) |
| 11.15 | Coffee break |
| 11.30 | The European SKA Consortium – Technology
programs (Arnold van Ardenne, European SKA Design Studies Co-ordinator and Director R&D, ASTRON) |
| 12.00 | European SKA demonstrators Some key SKADS projects - Focal Plane Arrays for Radioastronomy (Jan-Geralt bij de Vaate, ASTRON) - EMBRACE – An Aperture Array Demonstrator (Parbhu Patel, ASTRON) - A Digital Array Tile (Peter Wilkinson, University of Manchester, Jodrell Bank Observatory) |
| 13.00 | Lunch - Including optional tour of ASTRON SKA laboratories |
| 13.45 | LOFAR: Case study of a new-generation telescope (Eugène de Geus, Director, External Affairs, ASTRON) |
| 14.15 | Industry and the SKA Short invited presentations from a sample of companies interested in the SKA - A Sample of Technical Directions Relevant to SKA (Ruud Haring, IBM Research Division) - SKA: Networking Challenges and Opportunities (Brett Biddington, Cisco Systems) - Overview of Alcatel and SKA Interests (Michel Apers, Alcatel Space) |
| 15.15 | Refreshment break |
| 15.20 | Panel presentation and open discussion The international framework for industry and the SKA collaboration Niels Eldering (ESA Technology Transfer & Promotion Office), Eugène de Geus (Chair), Stephen Kahn (ProContra bv), Jan Reitsma (LOFAR Project Manager, ASTRON) |
| 16.30 | Closing remarks (Richard Schilizzi) |
| 16.40 | Drinks |
| 17.00 | Close |