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Australian Research Council announces the creation of a Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO).
Australian Government: 16.07.10

Sustainable energy boost for super telescope bid.
Australian Government: 09.06.10

Natural power to help power exploration of the Universe.
CSIRO: 09.06.10

Dutch high school students operate Australian telescope from Drenthe.
ASTRON: 27.05.10

Australia and New Zealand have recently undertaken successful trans-Tasman VLBI activity.
CSIRO: 26.05.10

Square Kilometre Array produces episode of the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast
365 Days of Astronomy Podcast: 13.05.10

Using a Telescope to Seek Out Jobs
Science Business (GB): 15.04.10

Super Science Awards Boost Australian SKA Program
ANZSKA (AU-NZ): 08.04.10

Italy Bids to Host Headquarters of Global Radio Telescope
Global Times (China): 01.04.10

+ Past news...




Documentation from future and past SKA Committee meetings, conferences and other events can be viewed here

Upcoming meetings

> RadioNet-FP7 Engineering Forum Workshop "Photonics in Radio Astronomy"
2-3 September 2010, Aveira, PT

Submission deadline: 1 August 2010

> Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM 2010)
6-10 September 2010, Lisbon, PT

Submission deadline: 30 November 2009

> IAU 274 Symposium: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics
6-10 September 2010, Giardini Naxos, IT

> German Astronomical Society: "Zooming in: The Cosmos at High Resolution"
13-17 September 2010, Bonn, DE

> WAC-2010: All-Russia Astronomical Conference - "From the Era of Galileo to the Present Day"
13-18 September 2010, Nizhny Arkhyz, RU

> Square Kilometre Array Conference - An Industry perspective
16 September 2010, London, GB

> 10th European VLBI Network Symposium: VLBI and the New Generation of Radio Arrays
20-24 September 2010, Manchester, GB

> AP-RASC '10: 2010 Asia-Pacific Radio Science Conference
22-26 September 2010, Toyama, JP

Submission deadline: 31 March 2010

> GPUs and Accelerators in HPC
28-29 September 2010, Daresbury, GB

> XLDB4: 4th Extremely Large Databases Workshop
5-7 Oct 2010, Menlo Park, CA, US

Invitation only on 5 Oct 2010

> US SKA Consortium meeting
11-12 October 2010, Albuquerque, NM, US

> e-VLBI2010: e-VLBI and the Path to the Square Kilometre Array 9th International e-VLBI Workshop
18-20 October 2010, Perth, AU

> SKA Science and Engineering Committee meeting - SSEC 5
24-26 October 2010, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, nr Didcot, GB

Invitation only.

> PrepSKA WP2 Annual Meeting 2010
27-30 October 2010, Oxford, GB

> Japan SKA Group meeting
4-5 November 2010, Tokyo, JP

> ADASS: 20th annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems conference
7-11 November 2010, Boston, MA, US

> SC10: SuperComputing 2010
13-19 November 2010, New Orleans,LA, US

> Solar Flair 10: Photovoltaics meeting
8-9 December 2010, Lumley Castle, Durham, GB

> AAVP 2010: Aperture Array Verification Programme workshop
8-10 December 2010, Cambridge, GB

> Theory and Observations of Extragalactic Magnetic Fields
13-15 December 2010, Paris, FR

> American Astronomical Society (AAS) 217th meeting
9-13 January 2011, Seattle, WA, US

> ISKAF 2011: International SKA Forum
6 July 2011, Banff, AB, CA

Invitation only.

> APRIM 2011: 11th Asia-Pacific IAU Regional Meeting
26-29 July 2011, Chiang Mai, TH

> XXXth URSI GA: Union Radio-Scientifique Internationale (URSI) General Assembly and Scientific Symposium
13-20 August 2011, Istanbul, TR

> IAU:28th General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union
20-31 August 2012, Beijing, CN

+ Past meetings and events...



> 17 Mar 2010: Sapphicon Semiconductor, CSIRO to develop radio receiver on a chip. Electronics News (AU).
> 15 Jan 2010: This year will see major advances in South Africa and in international radio astronomy projects. Engineering News (ZA), Keith Campbell.
> 14 Dec 2009: Wajarri people announce agreement for ASKAP. Yamatji News (AU).
> 4 Dec 2009: DST boosts SKA bid. IT Web (ZA).
> 4 Dec 2009: SA radio telescope project achieves major milestone early. Engineering News (ZA).
> 2 Dec 2009: Exploring to the Beat of Pulsars. Universe Today (AU).
> 27 Nov 2009: SKA pathfinder telescope to be built in WA. Electronics News (AU).
> 10 Nov 2009: Massive telescope. Behind the News - ABC TV (AU).
> 1 Nov 2009: Before Galileo. Message Stick, ABC TV (AU).
> 31 Oct 2009: Listen and learn. World Business - CNBC Europe.
> 29 Oct 2009: 'Internet discovery wins researcher $300,000. The Sydney Morning Herald Online (AU).
> 22 Sep 2009: Australia vies for radio astronomy base. The 7.30 Report - ABC TV (AU).
> 9 Sep 2009: SA urged to back telescope bid. News-24.com (ZA).
> 27 Aug 2009: AUD 80 million HPC project boosts Australia - New Zealand SKA bid. HPC Wire (AU).
> 20 Aug 2009: NZ - Australia combine for telescope bid. ABC Science (AU).
> 12 Aug 2009: Students tweet telescope takeover. Computerworld (AU).
> May 2009: MeerKAT coming on track during IYA 2009. Quest Magazine (ZA).
> 22 May 2009: Radio telescope project advances with issue of tender.Engineering News (ZA), Keith Campbell.
> 22 May 2009: Looking back to the beginning of time. Business Report (ZA), Kelvin Kemm.
> 30 April 2009: Super Science - Space and Astronomy.Government of Western Australia, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Science and Innovation.
> 30 April 2009: Italy and Australia work together on world's biggest telescope. Government of Western Australia, Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Science and Innovation.
> 3 April 2009: An array of technology spin-offs emerges as the ‘MeerKAT’ radio telescope gains traction. Engineering News (ZA), Keith Campbell.
> 26 February 2009: SA and Aus to collaborate on mega telescopes. The Good News (ZA).
> 26 February 2009: Vuvuzelas for giant telescope. News24 (ZA).
> 26 February 2009: SKA project gets votes of confidence, despite global crisis. Engineering News (ZA), Keith Campbell.


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