WP2 Meeting 2009

PREPSKA WORK PACKAGE 2 ANNUAL MEETING 2009

29-31 October 2009

Introduction

The aim of this meeting is to provide a snapshot of the world-wide progess toward the design of the SKA and specifically within the PrepSKA Work Package 2 activities; to begin the process of confronting science goals, design choices, and technical risks within a system engineering approach; and to explore the impact of recent scientific and technical results for the SKA design.

The meeting will comprise a small number of presentations, generally aimed at description of issues and items for discussion, focused on SKA design. There will be an emphasis on elucidation of risks and costs of various design approaches, as well as descriptions of work derived from a system engineering approach to WP2 and the SKA design. Industry discussions will focus on developing policy with respect to industry relations and handling intellectual property, not on specific industry involvements.

Start	Thursday 29 October 2009 (09.00)
End	Saturday 31 October 2009 (17.30)
Venue	Niels Bohr Common Room, 6th Floor, Schuster Building, The University of Manachester, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK [Taxi drop-off: Brunswick Street.]
Announcements	First Call Second Call
Sessions	Short presentations on SKA progress at contributing institutions; Precursor and Pathfinder contributions to the SKA design; The SKA system design and costing approach; SKA interactions with industry; Latest scientific results that may have an impact on the SKA design; WP2 Time and Resources planning; Progress and planning in each SKA sub-system; SKA roll-out and operations; SKA configurations and site planning; and Science/Technology trade-off plans.
Registration	Open meeting
Further information	Peter Dewdney, SKA Project Engineer Lisa Bell, SPDO Office Manager (tel: +44 161 275 4239)

The Schuster Building is shown as Building 54 on the University Campus map.

Presentations can be viewed via hyperlinks on the 'Programme' page. Zip files of the presentations can be downloaded here: Day 1 (73.3 MB), Day 2 (58.5 MB) and Day 3 (5.0 MB).