2008
Newsletters
International Newsletter: Jan.
08
Media coverage
News
> 22 July: Electronics Design Engineer sought for the European SKA Design Study / Pulsar research; to be based at the University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank Observatory. Closing date for applications is 6 August 2008.
>>more.
> 8 July: PhD studentships are available in SKA-related areas of interest at Curtin University, Western Australia. Closing date for applications is 31 August 2008.
>>more.
> 18 April: Australia reaffirms its commitment to SKA at the International SKA Forum, Perth. >>more.
> 14 April: The world's largest radio astronomy project gets serious. >>more.
> 28 March: The SPDO is now recruiting a Site Engineer, funded by STFC. This post can be based at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester or at the applicant's home institution if appropriate. >>more.
> 28 March: Australian Minister hails SKA as a "very special international project" in an address to the National Press Club of Australia. >>more.
> 26 March: The International SKA Forum 2008 – ‘Tuning in on the SKA’ - is to be held in Perth, Australia on Wednesday 9 April 2008. >>more.
> 18 March: The SPDO is now recruiting for six new engineering posts, funded by the EC FP7 "PREPSKA" award. >>more.
> 31 January: A series of SKA-related meetings are being held in Perth, Western Australia from 31 March - 11 April '08. >>more.
Meetings
> 29 - 30 January:
SKA Specifications Review Committee meeting
Manchester, UK
> 31 March - 4 April: Deep
Surveys of the Radio Universe with SKA Pathfinders
Perth, Australia.
> 7-8 April: SKA Science and Engineering Committee meeting (SSEC 1)
UWA University Club, Perth, Australia.
> 7-8 April: SKA Performance-Cost Modelling team meeting
Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
> 7-9 April: Calibration and Imaging Task Force (SKA Engineering Working Group)
UWA University Club, Perth, Australia.
> 9 April: SKA
Forum 2008 - "Tuning in on the SKA"
Perth, Australia.
> 10 April (am): Funding Agencies Group meeting
UWA, Perth, Western Australia
> 10 April (am): SKADS Workshop
Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
> 10 April (pm): PrepSKA Working Group meetings
Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
> 11 April (am): PrepSKA Board meeting
Curtin University, Perth, Australia.
> 14-18 April: Marie
Curie SKA/SKADS conference
Bonn, Germany
> 7-16 August:
XXIX General Assembly of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
Chicago, USA
2007
Newsletters
International Newsletter: July
07
International Newsletter: Jan.
07
Media coverage
>
SKA
colloquium at UCT University of
Cape Town (South Africa), 15 May 2007
>
Een
oor zo groot als een werelddeel
allesoversterrenkunde.nl (NL), 26 February 2007
News
> 11 December: A new SKA brochure has been published. Available here.
> 11 December: Latest draft of the 'Preliminary Specifications for the SKA' released. Available here.
> 20 November: The SKA Specifications Tiger Team have issued
and update to the 'Preliminary
Specifcations for the SKA' and 'Status
of the Pathfinder Telescopes and Design Studies' documents.
> 20 November: New job opportunities on the SKA project and at
ATNF-CSIRO. See here.
> 29 October: Science Vision for European astronomy : The final
report is now available in PDF format in either low
(17 MB) or normal
(47 MB) resolution.
> 5 October: The first CART 10 m prototype composite reflector
was mounted on the resurrected MV-1 positioner at DRAO on 27 Sept
2007. Feedlegs, a feed and RF gear are currently being assembled
in order to perform holography in the coming days. read
more.
> 4 October: Launch
of new Australian SKA website at www.ska.gov.au
> 2 October: The SKA2007 Working Group meeting was held in Manchester,
UK on 27 – 29 September 2007. Slide presentations from the event
are available here.
read
more
> 11 September: Draft
Specifications for the SKA (discussion document) now available here,
together with a supporting paper on the status of Pathfinder telescope
and design studies activities here
> 29 May: SKA millions fund R&D
> 26 May: Die Burger story based on interview of Peter Hall and Anita Loots by Elsabe Brits (in Afrikaans)
Meetings
> 10 - 12 October:
2nd SKADS Workshop and Mid Term Review
Paris, France
> 08 October:
SKA Forum 2007
Manchester, UK
> 06 - 07 October:
18th meeting of the International SKA Steering Committee
Manchester, UK
> 01 - 05 October:
From Planets to Dark Energy: the Modern Radio Universe
Manchester, UK
> 27 - 29 September:
SKA2007 Inter-WG meeting
Manchester, UK
> 30 July - 01 August:
“Simulations for the Square Kilometre Array”
Pushchino, Russia
> 12 - 15 June:
Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-Field Monitoring of the Dynamic
Radio Sky (Science Working Group Workshop)
Kerastari, Greece
> 4 - 6 June: Fourth European Conference on Research Infrastructures (ECRI 2007)
Hamburg, Germany
> 29 March - 05
April: Pulsar Searching and Thai-ming 2007 (SKA Workshop)
Krabi, Thailand
> 28 March: Science & Technology Day
San Juan, Argentina
> 26 - 31 March:
17th
meeting of the International SKA Steering Committee
San Juan, Argentina
> 12 - 16 March:
Technical
Challenges and the Science Potential of SKA Pathfinders
Sydney, Australia
2006
Newsletters
International Newsletter: July
06
International Newsletter: Jan.
06
Media coverage
>
"World's
biggest telescope puts Einstein to the test ",The
Independent (UK),S. Connor, 24.01
>
"World's
Largest Telescope",
Universe today, 21.01
News
> 28.09.06 - Short-list of acceptable sites for the SKA:
Press
release
Resulting
media coverage
Pictures
> 20.09.06 - Paris
SKA meetings, presentations
> 20.09.06 - Paris
SKADS meeting, presentations
> 10.11.06 - Science
minister opens site for construction of KAT prototype
> 21.06.06 - New
Karoo Array Telescope, South Africa
> 29.05.06 - Karoo Array Telescope: visit by Minister
> 14 March: US SKA Technology Day,
presentations
> 10 March: Radio
astronomy park for Western Australia
Meetings
> 04 - 06 December: SKA
Calibration and Imaging Workshop
Cape Town, South Africa
- Presentations
> 04
- 08 September:
Paris SKA + SKADS meetings at the Institut d'Astrophysiqe
de Paris (IAP)
- Paris
SKA meetings, presentations
- Paris
SKADS meeting, presentations
> 28 - 30 August: ISSC 16
Dresden, GermanyView
Photos
> 14 - 25 August: XXVIth General Assembly of the International
Astronomical Union (IAU)
Assembly Prague, Czech Republic
>
21 August: Long
Wavelength Astrophysics Joint Discussion 12 at the IAU General
Assembly
> 27-29 June: Next
Generation Correlators for Radio Astronomy and Geodesy,
Groningen, The Netherlands See
pictures...
> 10-12 April:Cosmology,
galaxy formation and astro-particle physics on the pathway to
the SKA, Oxford, UK, View
presentations (PPT)
>
30-31 March: Workshop, Gravitational
waves, radio pulsars and astrometry: Testing gravity in the next
decade, University of Birmingham (UK)
> 26-
30 March : Radio
Astronomy: New Instruments And Their Importance For Astrobiology
- Astrobiology Science Convention 2006, Washington,
USA
> 15 - 17 March: ISSC-15
Meeting in Socorro, New Mexico, USA
> 14 March: US
SKA Technologie day, NRAO Array Operations Center, Socorro, USA
- Presentations
2005
Newsletters
International Newsletter: Jan.
05 - Dec.05
Australian SKA Planning Office:
Aug.05 -
Sept.05 - Nov.05
News
> 10.12:
SSSM
in Argentina
> 02.11:
SSSM
in Australia
> 14.09:
SSSM in China
> 07.05:
SKA
site spectrum monitoring in China
> 03.05:
SKA
site spectrum monitoring in South Africa
> 01.05:
012005, World Year of Physics
>
15.02: Australia:
Traditional owners give green light to telescope project
Meetings
> 31 October - 3 Novembre:
SKA 2005
- SKA 2005 website - Presentations
on line, Pune, India
> 4
- 5 November:14th
ISSC meeting, Pune, India
> 23
- 29 October:
XXVIIIth General Assembly of International Union of Radio Science
(URSI),
Delhi, India
> 29 August - 2 September
: The
origin and evolution of cosmic magnetism,
INAF, Bologna, Italy
More information: Presentations
/ Photos
/ Proceedings
[The proceedings are now published as a special volume of Astronomical
Notes(AN), Vol 327,
issue 5-6/2006]
> 16 - 18 August
Pulsar astronomy with the
SKA - Enabling the SKA Key Science Projects :
1st announcement
- 2nd
announcement ,
Sydney, Australia
>26
- 29 July : 9th
Asian-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting (APRIM 2005),
Bali, Indonesia
>
11 July : 4th
Australian SKA simulations workshop, Sydney, Australia
>20
- 21 June: Second
International Focal Plane Array Workshop,
Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
> 22 - 24 June: The
Square Kilometre Array Workshop on Wide-Field Imaging, Dwingeloo,
The Netherlands
> 12 - 17 June:
IEEE
MTT-S 2005 International Microwave Symposium - WFF: Very large
microwave arrays for radio astronomy and space communication,
Long Beach, CA
>
6 - 10 June: Second
Summer School in Spectrum Management for Radio Astronomy, Radionet,
IUCAF, Italy
> 16 - 20 March:
13th
ISSC meeting, Guiyang, China
Media coverage
>
"Telescope could blast SA into world league",
Independant on line South Africa, 19.12
> "Scientists
wait on SKA bid" Midwest
Times, 09.12
>
"Bigger is better for Australian astronomers" ABC
Western Australia, 25.11
>
"SA scientist optimistic about Karoo Array Telescope's prospects"
Engineering news,K.
Campbell, 25.11
> SKA
2005, Pune Media
coverage - 31.10 - 05.11
> "Square
Kilometre Array" Radio
National, Science Show, R.Williams / P. Clayton, 12.11
>"
NZ, Australia ready for next generation telescope" Press
Release: Auckland University of Technology, 21.10
> " The Astron SKA Site Monitoring project", S.
Fröhlich - R. Millenaar, Radio 2 (Netherlands), 10.09
> SKA, el telescopio más grande del mundo, C.
Draghi, La Nacion (Argentina), 24.08
> WA’s
Mid-West ... and why the world’s top scientists like it,
T.Malkovic, Landmarks, Department of Land Information magazine,
Issue 43, Autumn
> SKA in South Africa "New founding for ICT Research,
allAfrica.com, 07.04
2004
News
Newsletter
2004
> Grant
of R30 M over 2 years made for SKA development in South Africa
> 1 February:
Appointment
of Peter Hall as SKA International Project Engineer
>
Canadian SKA Steering Committee formed
Meetings
> 3 December :
European Industry day, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.
> 18 - 22 July:
SKA 2004 - Penticton meeting :
Presentations, Program
- Penticton, Canada
> 16 - 18 July: Workshop
on Mitigation of Radio Frequency Interference in Radio Astronomy
(RFI2004), Penticton, Canada
> 18 - 21 May: Berlin
symposium Presentations, posters - Berlin,
Germany
> 18 - 21 May:Symposium,
"Exploring the Cosmic Forntier: Astrophysical Instruments
for the 21st century" - Berlin, Germany
Media coverage
> Interview Richard Schilizzi, Sergei Gulyaev,
News, TV3, New Zealand, Dec. 14
> "European Astronomy Gets New Vision",
23 Sept.. Read
> "SKA 2004, Penticton", July, 18 - 22 . Read
> "ET first contact 'within 20 years'", Eurekalert.com,
July 21. Read
> "Listening to the universe",
GPS world, July 1. Read
> "The radio star", The Guardian, June 3. Read
> Berlin Symposium, Exploring the
Cosmic Frontier, May 17-21.
Read
> Interview Richard Schilizzi, Westdeutsche Rundfunk, Feb.
11
2003
News
Newsletter
2003
Meetings
>27
July -2 August:
International SKA Conference 2003, Geraldton,
Australia
> 1
January: Appointment
of first International Project Director
for the SKA
2002
News
Newsletter
2002
Meetings
> 7 November:
The
Scientific Promise of the SKA, Oxford, UK
> 13-15
August: International
SKA Conference, Groningen, Netherlands
> 14-18 January:
New
Frontiers in Astrophysics: Square Kilometre Array , Bologna
Media coverage
> 3 May: Tuning
In the Radio Sky, Robert Irion, Science magazine, vol. 296
2001
News
Newsletter 2001
Meetings
> 11-12 December:
Workshop:
High Resolution Options for the SKA, Bonn
> 9-12
July:
The SKA: Defining
the Future,
Berkeley, California
2000
News
Newsletter
2000
Meetings
> 10 August :
Signing
of the Memorandum of Understanding to form the International SKA
Steering Committee, IAU
General Assembly, Manchester,
>
3-5 August:
Technology
Pathways to the Square Kilometre Array,
Jodrell Bank
>February
1: Australian
SKA Workshop on Array Configuration Design
Media coverage
> "Astronomers meet at Arecibo to discuss next-generation
radio telescope", Eurekalert.com, March 2. Read...
1999
News
Newsletter
1999
Meetings
> 29 June: Astronomers
Seek Fresh Air , International
Herald Tribune
> April :
Technologies
for Large Antenna Arrays , Dwingeloo,
The Netherlands
> April: Scientific
Imperatives at cm and metre Wavelengths
, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Media coverage
> "Astronomers Seek a little Fresh Air",
International Herald Tribune, June 29.
1998
Meetings
> July : The
International SKA Science Meeting , Calgary,
Canada
>Australian
Broadcasting Corporation Story: The One-Square Kilometre Telescope
1997
Meetings
>
December: The
1kT Technical Workshop,
Sydney, Australia
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