Paris EWG meetings – guidelines for presenters
PJH, August 1 2006

Tuesday September 5, morning, pathfinder and design study reports
• Overview of project
       o Including budget and current funding status, number of staff, links to other international           SKA groups (2-3 slides is sufficient for shorter talks)
• Relevance to SKA Reference Design
• Major milestones and deliverables
       o Including state of the project in Dec 2009
• Recent technical successes (emphasize)
• Any first astronomy results
• Emerging technical, system or implementation issues (emphasize)

Tuesday September 5, afternoon, SKA antenna concept implementation and pivotal technology
• Short overview of the evolution of the antenna concept in SKA context
• Relevance to the current Reference Design
• Concept demonstration
       o Current state of knowledge, including recent successes in solving key issues
       o Effectiveness of pathfinders/demonstrators in resolving major issues
                o Issues likely to be solved by Dec 2009
                o Major issues likely to remain unresolved in Dec 2009; the effects of the uncertainty
                   on SKA system design
• Cost and performance (c/p) projection
       o Suggested antenna sub-system block diagram for forthcoming cost-performance           estimation (brief introduction)
       o Major c/p projection uncertainties – what is most uncertain, and why?
       o First-round c/p estimates for key antenna modules/components in 2007, 20011, 2015
       o Best-effort c/p estimates for Reference Design and EWG strawman implementations of           antenna concept
• Likely implementation readiness for SKA Phase 1 and SKA
• Major current or planned industry links to take the concept to production
       o What additional links need to be made in which areas?

Tuesday September 5, afternoon, EWG task force chairs
• Brief summary of recent Task Force white papers
• What are the key issues to have emerged from the white papers?
• Which major SKA specifications are particularly relevant to the sub-system specification (and    costing)?
       o Examples: FOV, FOV vs baseline, upper frequency limit, effective area, ...
• What work has so far been done in deriving a sub-system specification relevant to the   Reference Design and strawman?
       o What additional work should be done in the next year?
• Which SKA specifications need to be updated or elaborated to allow sub-system    specification, costing and performance estimation to proceed?
• Are there important aspects of the sub-system which are not currently being well   demonstrated?