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Australia
Western Australia's Liberal-National Government pushes forward with bid to win massive international observatory.
15.12.08

Senator Kim Carr speech on the Australian SKA Industry Consortium.
12.11.08

"Visionary Project Looks to the Beginniing of Time", Australian Financial Review.
12.11.08

Canada
Composite Applications to Radio Telescopes (CART) reflector Mk 2 completed at the Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics DRAO site.
09.10.08

South Africa
MeerKAT coming on track during IYA 2009.
05.09

Radio telescope project advances with issue of tender.
22.05.09

Looking back to the beginning of time.
22.05.09

+ Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP): Newsletter

+ SKA South Africa: Newsletter
Riddle of the missing hydrogen
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: 25.11.08

+ Past news...




Upcoming meetings

> 1st School on Multiwavelength Astronomy
29 June - 10 July 2009, Paris, FR

> PrepSKA WP4 (Governance) meeting
8 July 2009 (am), Den Haag, NL

> PrepSKA WP6 (Funding) meeting
8 July 2009 (pm), Den Haag, NL

> Agencies SKA Group (closed) meeting
9 July 2009, Den Haag, NL

> ICGSE2009: 4th IEEE International Conference on Global SW Engineering
13-16 July 2009, Limerick, IE

Submission deadline: 16 January 2009

> 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference
20-24 July 2009, Seattle, WA, US

Submission deadline: 5 May 2009

> XXVII General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
3-14 Aug 2009, Rio de Janeiro, BR

Submission deadline: 31 March 2009

> ESEC/FSE'09: 7th Joint Meeting of European SW Engineering Conference and ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on Foundations of SW Engineering (FSE-7)
24-28 Aug 2009, Amsterdam, NL

Submission deadline: 16 March 2009

> 3rd Marie Curie SKADS Training School: Towards the SKA - increasing the evolution rate in radio astronomy
25-29 Aug 2009, Paris, FR

Registration deadline: 15 June 2009

> 3rd Extremely Large Databases Workshop
28-29 Aug, Lyon, FR

Invitation-only meeting

> RE 2009: 17th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
31 Aug - 4 Sep 2009, Atlanta, GA, US

Submission deadline: 2 February 2009

> Science with SKAMP: Workshop on Widefield Spectroscopy of the Southern Radio Sky
16-17 Sep 2009, Molonglo Observatory, AU

Submission deadline: end-August 2009. Registration deadline: 1 September 2009

> Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) Conference 2009
21-25 Sep 2009, Barcelona, ES

> SoMeT_09: 8th International Conference on Software Methodologies Tools and Techniques
23-25 Sep 2009, Prague, CZ

Submission deadline: 15 April 2009

> CASPER (Center for Astronomy Signal Processing and Electronics Research) Workshop
28 Sep - 2 Oct 2009, Stellenbosch, ZA

> 19th Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems (ADASS) conference
4-8 October 2009, Sapporo, JP

Submission deadline: 1 July 2009

> NCRA/ IUCAA /CDAC: HPC and Software Challenges in Astronomy
12-16 October 2009, Pune, IN

Submission deadline: 15 July 2009

> IASESE 2009: 7th International Advanced School of Empirical Software Engineering
14 October 2009, Lake Buena Vista, FL, US

> ESEM 2009: 3rd International Symposium in Empirical SW Engineering and Measurement
15-16 October 2009, Lake Buena Vista, FL, US

Submission deadline: 18 March 2009

> Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences and Ramón Areces Foundation: Heirs of Galileo: Frontiers of Astronomy
19-21 October 2009, Madrid, ES

> Power Investigation Task Force (PITF) meeting
23 October 2009, Manchester, GB

> SKA Science and Engineering Committee (closed) meeting - SSEC 3
26-28 October 2009, Manchester, GB

> Agencies SKA Group (closed) meeting
29 October 2009, Manchester, GB

> PrepSKA Work Package 2 Annual Meeting
29-31 October 2009, Manchester, GB

> 8th SKADS Board Meeting
3-4 November 2009, Château de Limelette, BE

> SKADS Conference
4-6 November 2009, Château de Limelette, BE

> Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses on SKADS: Digital Signal Processing and Beamforming Workshop
9-13 November 2009, Manchester, GB

> Supercomputing 2009
14-20 November 2009, Portland, OR, US

Submission deadline: 3 April 2009

> International Conference on High Performance Computing
16-19 December 2009, Kochi, IN

Submission deadline: 15 May 2009

> 215th American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting
3-7 January 2010, Kochi, IN

Submission deadline: 1 October 2009

> SKA2010: Annual SKA Science and Engineering Meeting
22-25 March 2010, Manchester, GB

>SKA Science and Engineering Committee (closed) meeting - SSEC 4
26-27 March 2010, Manchester, GB

+ Past meetings and events...



> 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.


+ Past media coverage


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