Desired outcomes
- Provide engineers and other participants with
a briefing on technical highlights and other relevant information
from regional pathfinders and design studies, with a focus on
technical contributions to the SKA Reference Design.
- Provide critical reviews of pivotal antenna and
other technology concepts for the Reference Design, including
a review of recent successes, outstanding issues, the success
or otherwise of pathfinders in addressing key issues, and realistic
cost and performance projections.
- Provide, via the EWG task forces, input to the
next round of SKA cost and performance estimation. Plan the
task force activities and the process of preliminary system
design for the period leading up to the early-2008 review of
SKA technology by the International Engineering Advisory Committee.
- Provide updates on current political and organizational
imperatives, and obtain opinions from participants on how these
imperatives should shape regional and international SKA engineering
plans.
- Via joint discussions between the SKA astronomy
and engineering communities, provide a summary of the consequences
of varying key SKA specifications. Produce a summary of the
variational analysis discussions and a critique of one minimum
(strawman) implementation of the Reference Design.
- Present, for discussion by astronomers and engineers,
an outline of an SKA operational model and assess the main implications
for SKA system design and astronomical capability, particularly
in areas such as evolution of instrument capacity.
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