A general overview of the SKA from an international engineering perspective is available, as are descriptions of the various demonstrators. Companies interested in the SKA may wish to seek more information and, to streamline the contact process, the table below provides a summary of national consortia interests and current R&D areas. There is a high, and increasing, level of collaboration between consortia; collaboration with particular groups therefore affords excellent international visibility. Additional input at the international level may be possible via the International SKA Project Office (ISPO) with its interests in, for example, complex decision making and risk management.

As policy, the SKA project is committed to high quality collaborations producing valuable outcomes for the parties involved. The capacity of some research groups to manage external links is currently limited and, to ensure quality is maintained, limits on the number or scale of partnerships may be in place.

Interests and Current Activities of SKA National Consortia.

Australia Canada China Europe India South
Africa
USA
Site studies and infrastructure engineering            
SKA scheduling, operations and maintenance models                  
Outreach and public education      
Low-cost manufacturing of small to medium diameter dishes                    
Low-cost, low-loss, artificial dielectrics for radio lenses                        
Active surface adjustment techniques for very large (> 100m) reflectors                    
Advanced mechatronic systems for feed positioning and antenna control              
Decade bandwidth feed antennas for dish and lens flux concentrators                  
Broadband, active, phased arrays for aperture and focal plane applications            
Low-noise, highly integrated, receivers for both cryogenic and uncooled applications        
High-speed (Tb/s) digital fibre optic links for distance regimes extending from 100 m to 3000 km        
Low-cost, high-speed (Gs/s) analog to digital converters        
High-speed digital signal processing engines (Pb/s) and ultra-fast supercomputing          
Software engineering for robust, intelligent, array control and data processing                
Radio-frequency interference mitigation using coherent and incoherent techniques                
High dynamic range (>60 dB) image formation using sparsely-sampled Fourier plane data          

area of interest

current R & D activities

Contacts

Australia Canada
Dr Peter Hall
hall@skatelescope.org
Dr John Kot
John.Kot@csiro.au
Dr Peter Dewdney Peter.Dewdney@nrccnrc.gc.ca
China Europe India
Prof Nan Rendong nrd@bao.ac.cn Dr Arnold van Ardenne
aredenne@astron.nl
Prof S. Ananthakrishnan ananth@ncra.tifr.res.in
South Africa USA  
Prof. Justin Jonas
J.Jonas@au.ac.za
Prof Jim Cordes
cordes@astro.cornell.edu
 

 


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