SKA 2004 - Penticton meeting, 18 - 22 July, 2004

Plenary Session, Monday July 19
  SKA reports
- "Report from the Project Director" - R.Schilizzi
- "SKA Engineering report "- P.Hall
- "ISAC activities since Gerladton"- C.Carilli
- "Site Evaluation and Selection Committee Report" - Y.Terzian
- "SKA Simulation Working group Report" - S.Tingay
- "Report on RFI2004" - S.W. Ellingson

  Programmatic reports
- "European Sixth Framework Programme" - P.Wilkinson
- "US Technology Development Plan" - J.Cordes
- "Canadian Long-range plan for astronomy" - R.Taylor
- "Australian SKA technology research" - R.Norris
- "South Africa" - J.Jonas
- "China" - B.Peng
- "SKA- Indian activities" - P.Rao

  Demonstrators and pathfinders
- " The Allen Telescope Array"- D.DeBoer
- "The Deep Space Array Network" - S.Weinreb
- "Pre-loaded Parabolic Dishes" - P. Rao
- "Phased Arrays" - P.Patel
- "LOFAR" - K. van der Schaaf
- "Cylinders"- J.Bunton
- " Lenses" - J.Kot
- "Large Adaptive Reflector" - P.Dewdney
- "KARST/FAST" - B.Peng
- "The Expanded Very Large Array, pathfinder for the SKA" - R.Perley
- "E-MERLIN"- P. Diamond
- "IEMT Demonstrator Report" - P.Hall

Science day, Tuesday, July 20
- "Introduction to Key SKA Science Areas" - C.Carilli-B.Gaensler
- "Probing the Dark Ages : HI, the epoch of reionization, and beyond" - S.Furlanetto
- "Review of the MIT EOR workshop"- M.Morales
- "Probing the Dark Ages: Carbon Monoxide"- C.Carilli
- "The Evolution of Galaxies and Large-scale Structure" - S.Rawlings
- "The Origin and Evolution of Cosmic Magnetism" - B.Gaensler - T.Landecker
- "Strong Field Tests of General Relativity Using Pulsars and Black Holes" - V. Kaspi, J. Cordes and M. Kramer
- "The Cradle of Life: Protoplanetary Disks" - S.Dougherty
- "SETI on the SKA" - D.Werthimer
- "Exploring the unknown" - J.Bland-Hawthorn - R.Ekers

Engineering session, Wednesday, July 21
- "SKA computing, how hard can it be?" - T.Cornwell
-"Radio Astronomy Array Antennas by the Thousands" - R.Schultz
-" Real-life Issues in the Design and Construction of Large Correlator Systems"- B.Carlson
- "The Role of Industry in Large Science Projects: Fostering and Organizing Industrial Participation"- D.Halliday

  Posters summaries
- "Versatile 12m/16m Antenna Concept"- S. Weinreb

Break-out sessions, Thursday, July 22
  Summaries committees
- ISAC (now Science Working Group)
- P.Hall, "IEMT Retreat Report" (now Engineering Working Group)
- SSWG (now Simulations Working Group)
- SESC (now Site Evaluation Working Group): Argentina - Y.Terzian

  Concept Convergence Workshop
- " Introduction" - R.Schilizzi
- "SKA Hybrids and the US LNSD Concepts" - J.Lazio
- "Hybrid of Aperture Arrays and LargeNSmallD concept for SKA; the aperture array part" - A.Van Ardenne
- "Cylinders + Small Dish Hybrid" - J.Bunton
- "LAR" - P. Dewdney
- "15 m dishes and FPA" R.Ekers
- "EWG Comments on Hybrids" - B.Veidt
- "SWG Comments on Hybrids" - S.Rawlings
- "Are hybrids a viable solution?" - K.Kellermann

Posters
- SKAMP Project, J.Bunton
- SKAMP Spectral Line Correlator, J.Bunton
- SKAMP Wide-band Line feed, J.Bunton
- Proposal for the Deep Space Array-based Network Beamformer, J. Bunton and R.Navarro
- Comparison of Wide Field of View Technologies, J.Bunton and S.G. Hay
- Feed supporting system for FAST, Wenbai Zhu
- Comets and SKA, P. Colom, N. Biver, D. Bockelée-Morvan, J. Crovisier, A. Lecacheux, L. Jorda