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	Australia and Southern Africa short-listed for SKA location 28.09.06 Proposals for siting the SKA were received from the four candidates sites - Argentina/Brazil, Australia, China and Southern Africa - on 31 December 2005. Following a period of evaluation of the proposals and having taken account of the advice of an independent panel called the International SKA Site Advisory Committee, the ISSC decided that the short-list of acceptable sites for the SKA will comprise Australia and Southern Africa. Additional studies of the characteristics of the short-listed sites will be carried out in 2007 and 2008. A final decision of the location of the SKA is expected thereafter.
	SKA on the ESFRI Roadmap 19.10.06 The SKA project has been included on the Future Infrastructures Roadmap of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI-press release). This is an important recognition of the SKA project and a crucial step towards its realisation.
SKA Partners
South Africa
	New connectivity brings real-time global radio astronomy to SA 23.05.08 South Africa ramps up SKA preparatory work as ‘friendly’ competition with Australia intensifies 09.05.08 Sleepy Carnarvon to host supercomputer? 24.04.08 Telescope will benefit SA 23.04.08 SA's telescope bid on track 22.04.08 MeerKAT takes shape 22.04.08 SA steps up SKA bid 21.04.08 SKA race hots up 17.04.08 A new brochure with all the latest information is now available 02.04.08 SKA South Africa poster 02.04.08 South Africa Radio Astronomy Reserve poster 02.04.08
	Newsletters + SKA South Africa: Newsletter
Australia
	Australian Minister cites SKA as a "very special international project" 19.03.08 Multi-million dollar science boost to continue building WA 29.02.08 Australia in the running for ambitious astronomy project Kilometre Array project 21.09.07 State and Australian Governments working together to secure Square Kilometre Array project 21.09.07 Australian Government funding for Australian SKA Pathfinder 15.06.07
	Newsletters + Australian SKA Coordination Committee(ASCC): Newsletter
USA
	Newsletters + Technology Development Project (TDP): Newsletter - April 2008

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Upcoming meetings

> Deep Surveys of the Radio Universe with SKA Pathfinders
31 March - 4 April 2008 / Western Australia, AU

> SKA Science and Engineering Committee meeting (SSEC 1)
7 - 8 April 2008 / UWA University Club, Perth, Western Australia

> SKA Performance-Cost Modelling team meeting
7 - 8 April 2008 / Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

> Calibration and Imaging Task Force (SKA Engineering Working Group)
7 - 9 April 2008 / UWA University Club, Perth, Western Australia

> SKA Forum 2008 - "Tuning in on the SKA"
9 April 2008 / Perth, Western Australia

> Funding Agencies Group meeting
10 April 2008 (a.m.) / UWA, Perth, Western Australia

> SKADS Workshop
10 April 2008 (a.m.) / Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

> PrepSKA Working Group meetings
10 April 2008 (p.m.) / Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

> PrepSKA Board meeting
11 April 2008 (a.m.) / Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia

> Marie Curie SKA/SKADS conference
14 - 18 April 2008 / Bonn, Germany

> XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
07 - 16 August 2008 / Chicago, USA

> Astrophysics with E-LOFAR
16 - 19 September 2008, Hamburg, Germany

> International Engineering Advisory Committee meeting
February 2009, location tbc

> SKA Science and Engineering Committee meeting (SSEC 2)
date tbc, Cape Town, South Africa

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Other meetings of interest to the SKA
SWG members can find a full list of relevant meetings that will be or should be attended by SKA "advocates" here (password protected page)

> Révéler l’invisible
   Pourlascience.com (France), 2007 - Read

> SKA colloquium at UCT
   University of Cape Town (South Africa), 15 May 2007 - Read

> Een oor zo groot als een werelddeel
   allesoversterrenkunde.nl (NL), 26 February 2007 - Read

> IBM Tapped for Radio Telescope
   Edn.com (USA), 6 December 2006 - Read > Dutch Courage
   Nature PublishingGroup (UK), 9 November 2006 - Read

> Nations vie for giant telescope
   BBC News (UK), 28 September 2006 - Read

> Short-list of acceptable sites for the SKA
   The ISSC issued a press release: list of resulting media coverage - Read - Read

>Das Square Kilometre Array
    Sterne und Weltraum (DE), September 2006 - Read

> Magnetic fields that guide you on a trip through time?
    NewScientist (UK), 2 September 2006 - Read

> Let There Be Light
   Time (USA), 27 August 2006 - Read

> Candidate Sites for World's Largest Telescope Face First Big Hurdle
   Science Magazine (USA), 18 August 2006 - Read (summary) (full version)

> Telescope in sight
   The Guardian (UK), 4 July 2006 - Read

> European proposal shouldn't threaten SKA
   Mining weekly (South Africa), 13 April 2006 - Read

> SKA bid strengthens
   Midwest Times (Australia), 16 March 2006 - Read

> SA scientists bid for part of project that will look further back in time than ever before
   Creamer's media, Engineering news (South Africa), Keith Campbell, 17 Feb. 2006 - Read

> South Africa eyes astronomy's top prizee
   Education Guardian (UK), Rory Carroll, 13 Feb. 2006 - Read

> Funding agreed for world's largest telescope
   Vnunet.com, Iain Thomson, 26 Jan 2006 - Read

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