Square Kilometre Array: Towards Construction
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Manchester
Department Name: Physics and Astronomy
Abstract
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Planned Impact
The SKA is a major new global astronomy facility. It will be operated as an observatory with time awarded via competitive application for observing time. At the same time, the SKA project is a major technical challenge especially within the area of High-performance computing, "Big Data" technologies and energy efficient computing.
The output of the work to be supported by the application will be to support a programme of work to prepare the UK for construction. The delivery of the SKA itself will benefit the full academic astronomy community within the partner countries and more widely. In addition the key science goals for the instrument are at the core of modern cosmology and physics and the results will have significant impact beyond the astronomical community both within scientific community more widely but also to Society via our better understanding of the Universe and fundamental physics. The continued UK leadership in key areas will ensure the UK astronomical community is ideally placed to maximise return from the SKA when operational.
The proposed work will also have a much wider impact. Most critically the UK, as the global host, has committed £100m to the construction phase. Ensuring the maximal possible return to UK through contracts exceeding the level of the UK's fair work return is critical. The proposed programme of work is designed to maximise the UKs opportunities for winning construction contracts.
The SKA is widely recognised as the next BigData challenge within science. As such the required design is pushing the boundaries of those technologies needed to process, analyse and store streaming data. These technologies are critical to the SKA, but are also of wide and general applicability across a broad range of market sectors from standard Data Centres to the analysis and management of data from sensor networks such as those associated with Smart Cities. Via collaboration with major industry partners in the ICT sector and the targeted contracts to be managed as part of this work, the design work has resulted in an innovative software architecture. As part of the proposed work here this design will be progressed to a substantive early demonstrator of these technologies. The UK leadership in technology areas from Signal transport, through low-noise receivers and the low-frequency aperture arrays all generate not only significant opportunity for construction contracts but additional IP.
1. IP will be developed via this work either jointly or within the industry partners. The IP arrangements in place enable industry partners to exploit this IP while retaining necessary rites for the delivery of the SKA. If the IP is jointly developed appropriate sharing of the results of the impact will be put in place following standard procedures.
2. The SKA design work will provide a focus for some industry partners to develop modified or new products and services which will have wider impact.
3. Direct funding of design work will be undertaken as part of this work. Exploitation of IP derived in this way will be determined by the contractual arrangements with those companies winning competitive tenders while ensuring the delivery of the SKA design according to the SKA IP policy.
The output of the work to be supported by the application will be to support a programme of work to prepare the UK for construction. The delivery of the SKA itself will benefit the full academic astronomy community within the partner countries and more widely. In addition the key science goals for the instrument are at the core of modern cosmology and physics and the results will have significant impact beyond the astronomical community both within scientific community more widely but also to Society via our better understanding of the Universe and fundamental physics. The continued UK leadership in key areas will ensure the UK astronomical community is ideally placed to maximise return from the SKA when operational.
The proposed work will also have a much wider impact. Most critically the UK, as the global host, has committed £100m to the construction phase. Ensuring the maximal possible return to UK through contracts exceeding the level of the UK's fair work return is critical. The proposed programme of work is designed to maximise the UKs opportunities for winning construction contracts.
The SKA is widely recognised as the next BigData challenge within science. As such the required design is pushing the boundaries of those technologies needed to process, analyse and store streaming data. These technologies are critical to the SKA, but are also of wide and general applicability across a broad range of market sectors from standard Data Centres to the analysis and management of data from sensor networks such as those associated with Smart Cities. Via collaboration with major industry partners in the ICT sector and the targeted contracts to be managed as part of this work, the design work has resulted in an innovative software architecture. As part of the proposed work here this design will be progressed to a substantive early demonstrator of these technologies. The UK leadership in technology areas from Signal transport, through low-noise receivers and the low-frequency aperture arrays all generate not only significant opportunity for construction contracts but additional IP.
1. IP will be developed via this work either jointly or within the industry partners. The IP arrangements in place enable industry partners to exploit this IP while retaining necessary rites for the delivery of the SKA. If the IP is jointly developed appropriate sharing of the results of the impact will be put in place following standard procedures.
2. The SKA design work will provide a focus for some industry partners to develop modified or new products and services which will have wider impact.
3. Direct funding of design work will be undertaken as part of this work. Exploitation of IP derived in this way will be determined by the contractual arrangements with those companies winning competitive tenders while ensuring the delivery of the SKA design according to the SKA IP policy.
Organisations
- University of Manchester (Lead Research Organisation)
- Curtin University (Collaboration)
- SKK Electronics (Collaboration)
- Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) (Collaboration)
- ADVA Optical Networking (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
- Nokia (Collaboration)
Publications
Zhang Y
(2019)
A Wideband Planar Aperture Array Using Interconnected Crossed Rings
in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation
Nitu I
(2021)
An updated estimate of the cosmic radio background and implications for ultra-high-energy photon propagation
in Astroparticle Physics
Grainge K
(2020)
Cosmology with Phase 1 of the Square Kilometre Array Red Book 2018: Technical specifications and performance forecasts
in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
Li Y
(2020)
HI intensity mapping with MeerKAT: 1/f noise analysis
in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Oberland R
(2021)
Integrated dissemination system of frequency, time and data for radio astronomy
in IEEE Photonics Journal
Chen Y
(2021)
Integrated dissemination system of frequency, time and data for radio astronomy
in IEEE Photonics Journal
Hilary Kay
(2020)
New SKA Software Development Team Forges Links with UK Industry
Hilary Kay
(2020)
SKA Frequency and Timing Testing at the University of Manchester
De Lera Acedo E
(2020)
SKA LFAA Station Design Report
Description | RAAIR |
Amount | £3,000,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | No.38 Research Institute of CETC (CETC38) |
Sector | Private |
Country | China |
Start | 03/2019 |
End | 09/2020 |
Description | ADVA |
Organisation | ADVA Optical Networking |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Collaborator Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Impact | Ongoing technical updates |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | ADVA |
Organisation | ADVA Optical Networking |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Collaborator Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Impact | Ongoing technical updates |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Nokia |
Organisation | Nokia |
Country | Global |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Collaborator Contribution | Work on SKA optical networks |
Impact | Ongoing technical updates |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Particle Shower Detector |
Organisation | Curtin University |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | We have developed a particle shower detector to be incorporated with the SKA1-LOW telescope. They would act as a trigger for dumping the transient buffer data from the SKALA antennas to allow investigation of cosmic ray induced particle showers. We have won a contract for University of Manchester from Curtin University as part of a successful application for an ARC LIEF award to deliver 8 particle-detector units which will be deployed with the MWA telescope. |
Collaborator Contribution | Curtin Univerisity are one of the major partners in the MWA telescope which will detect the radio signals associated with a cosmic ray event when triggered by a detection from the particle shower detectors. |
Impact | LIEF ARC Grant awarded |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | SAFe work - UoM-SKA (MCCS) |
Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Ralph Braddock (UoM) Starting in March 2020 I will be starting to collaborate with people at CSIRO and STFC working on the development of demonstration software for the Monitor, Control and Calibration Sub-system for the low telescope (MCCS). Part of SAFe work ongoing with SKA |
Collaborator Contribution | As above |
Impact | N/A at time of entry |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | SAFe work - UoM-SKA (STFC) |
Organisation | Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Ralph Braddock (UoM) Restarted working with Geoff Mant from STFC to develop a minimum viable product to demonstrate the feasibility of the SAT.LMC software system. |
Collaborator Contribution | As above |
Impact | Ongoing delivery of SAFe tasks (UoM-SKA) |
Start Year | 2019 |
Description | UoM-SKK (SKA Timescale) |
Organisation | SKK Electronics |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | New industry partner SKK Electronics (Italy) commissioned SKK to manufacture a 'state of the art' phase micro-stepper for the SKA Timescale prototype. |
Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
Impact | Ongoing work. |
Start Year | 2020 |
Description | "The Square Kilometre Array Telescope: Engineering to reveal Cosmic Origins", Faraday Institute seminar, Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Althea Wilkinson "The Square Kilometre Array Telescope: Engineering to reveal Cosmic Origins" seminar on 29th October 2019 Faraday Institute in Cambridge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | 3rd 21cm Global Workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 3rd 21cm Global Workshop October 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://sites.google.com/view/third21cmglobalworkshop/ |
Description | ADVA Innovation Day |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | ADVA Innovation Day, 18th Feb 2021, network equipment webinar (remote). ECOC, 7-9 Dec 2020, optical fibre conference (remote) Richard Oberland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | AENEAS meeting (Lyon, France) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "SRCs - Science Requirements for Cosmology", 27 June 2019, AENEAS meeting in Lyons ~20 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | ALMA Development Studies meeting (Garching) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grange - "Signal and Data Transport for the SKA", ALMA Development Studies Meeting 2019, Garching, 5th June 2019 ~80 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Astronomical Instrument Development meeting (DIAS) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Phased Array Feeds", Astronomical Instrument Development meeting, DIAS, 2nd September 2019 ~30 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Bluedot festival 2019 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Bluedot science, music, arts festival held at Jodrell Bank July 2019 approx 35000 capacity Prof Keith Graunge - "The Square Kilometre Array - the future of radio astronomy", 21 July 2019, Bluedot talk at Jodrell Bank, ~1300 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Data Centre World Conference, (London) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance 'Data Centre World Conference', Excel London 12-13 March 2019 - Visiting industry stands and attending workshop talks Richard Oberland |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Digital Skills Partnership |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge Discussion panel participation Digital Skills Partnership Launch, Wednesday 15th May at Jodrell Bank ~40 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Festival of Tomorrow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Hilary Kaye Festival of Tomorrow 19-20 February 2021 - virtual public engagement event, attended to help with SKA exhibitor stand |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | History of the SKA Conference (SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance and contribution 'History of the SKA Conference', SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank 3-5 April 2019 Prof Richard Schillizi (organiser/founder) Prof Keith Grainge (contribution) Richard Oberland Michelle Hussey (contribution/LOC) Prof Althea Wilkinson (contribution) Prof Peter Wilkinson (contribution) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Intel - Dive into the Datacentric Portfolio, Webinar on Intel processor technology roadmap given by Intel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Intel - Dive into the Datacentric Portfolio, Webinar on Intel processor technology roadmap given by Intel on 2nd September 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Introduction to Strategic Export Control and Licences Webinar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Introduction to Strategic Export Control and Licences Webinar, UK Department of International Trade 16th July 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | JBCA Internal Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "The SKA Group", JBCA internal symposium, 2 November 2019 ~ 130 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | MOST S&T Fund supervision service centre meeting (Jodrell Bank) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Performance Evaluation and Project Fund Management", Meeting with MOST S&T Fund supervision service centre, Jodrell Bank, 15th October 2019 presentation to 3 members of MOST |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | MeerKAT Intensity Mapping meeting (Cape Town, ZA) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - Attended MeerKAT Intensity Mapping meeting in Cape Town, 2-6 March 2020 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Meeting (Malta) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Science Case for MFAA", Mid-Frequency Aperture Array Meeting, Malta, 20 May 2019 ~ 20 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | North Western OR Group (Manchester) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Big data in radio astronomy", North Western OR Group, Manchester, 13th February 2020 ~30 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | PAF Workshop (Bonn, Germany) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - Attended PAF Workshop 2019 in Bonn, 16-18 September, 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | PI#6 planning meeting, February 2020 (Perth, Australia) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance (and contractors) - mixture of remote and travel attendees (majority remote) SKA PI#6 planning meeting Monday 24 February to Thursday 27 February Perth, Australia Mike Pearson (PSS) Ben Stappers (PSS) Lina Levin Preston (PSS) Mitch Mickaliger (PSS) Ben Shaw (PSS) Atul Ghulame (PSS) Ralph Braddock (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Geoff Mant (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Richard Oberland (Networks) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | PIERS 2019 (Rome) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "The PHAROS2 project", PIERS 2019, Rome, 19th June 2019 ~30 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Presentation on "Dark Matter Interactions" Prof. Tracy Slatyer, MIT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on "Dark Matter Interactions" Prof. Tracy Slatyer, MIT 3rd February 2021 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Presentation on "Deep Learning Approaches to Radio-astronomy" Prof. Anna Scaife University of Manchester |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on "Deep Learning Approaches to Radio-astronomy" Prof. Anna Scaife University of Manchester 17th February 2021 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | RadioNet Workshop on Future Trends in Radio Astronomy Instrumentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | RadioNet Workshop on Future Trends in Radio Astronomy Instrumentation, September 2020, ~100 people attended Prof Keith Grainge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://events.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/event/154/ |
Description | Resilient Time for the Future for Telecoms Webinar, led by the UK National Physical Laboratory |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Resilient Time for the Future for Telecoms Webinar, led by the UK National Physical Laboratory 30 September 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Royal Astronomical Society (Friends of meeting) London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "The Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century", Friends of the RAS meeting, Royal Astronomical Society, London, 2nd October 2019 ~40 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA Cosmology Science Working Group (Paris) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Cosmology SWG - General Discussion", 24 January 2020, Paris, SKA Cosmology Science Working Group meeting ~ 30 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA Cosmology Science Working Group virtual conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Cosmology Science Working Group virtual conference, January 2021, ~40 people attended Prof Keith Grainge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | SKA PI#3 planning meeting June 2019 (Pune, India) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance (and contractors) - mixture of remote and travel attendees (majority remote) SKA PI#3 planning meeting Monday 3 June - Friday 7 June 2019 Pune, India Mike Pearson (PSS) Ben Stappers (PSS) Lina Levin Preston (PSS) Mitch Mickaliger (PSS) Ben Shaw (PSS) Atul Ghulame (PSS) Ralph Braddock (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Geoff Mant (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Richard Oberland (Networks) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA PI#4 planning meeting, September 2019 (SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance (and contractors) - mixture of remote and travel attendees (majority remote) SKA PI#4 planning meeting Monday 2 September - Friday 6 September 2019 SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank Mike Pearson (PSS) Ben Stappers (PSS) Lina Levin Preston (PSS) Mitch Mickaliger (PSS) Ben Shaw (PSS) Atul Ghulame (PSS) Ralph Braddock (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Geoff Mant (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Richard Oberland (Networks) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA PI#5 planning meeting, December 2019 (Jodrell Bank) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance (and contractors) - mixture of remote and travel attendees (majority remote) SKA PI#5 planning meeting Monday 2 December - Friday 6 December SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank Mike Pearson (PSS) Ben Stappers (PSS) Lina Levin Preston (PSS) Mitch Mickaliger (PSS) Ben Shaw (PSS) Atul Ghulame (PSS) Ralph Braddock (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Geoff Mant (Planning with Team Buttons for following 3 months of development work) Richard Oberland (Networks) |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA Programme Increment 6 Innovation Event led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Programme Increment 6 Innovation Event led by the SKA Organisation 26th May to 29th May 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Programme Increment 7 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Programme Increment 7 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation 1st June to 5th June 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Programme Increment 8 Innovation Event led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Programme Increment 8 Innovation Event led by the SKA Organisation 24th to 26th November 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Programme Increment 8 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Programme Increment 8 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation 1st September to 4th September 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Programme Increment 9 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Programme Increment 9 Planning Event led by the SKA Organisation 1st to 5th December 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Pulsar Search Pipeline C++ Masterclass given by University of Oxford |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Pulsar Search Pipeline C++ Masterclass given by University of Oxford 27th November 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Science Conference (Manchester) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "PAFs for SKA", Continuum SWG at 2019 SKA Science Conference, Manchester, 12th April 2019 ~30 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | SKA Scrum Masters Community of Practice Meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Scrum Masters Community of Practice Meeting 19 November 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | SKA Scrum of Scrums Community of Practice meeting led by the SKA Organisation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | SKA Scrum of Scrums Community of Practice meeting led by the SKA Organisation 3rd February 2021 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | SKA meeting (Shanghai) "Concluding our past, realising our future" |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UMan attendance 2019 SKA Shanghai meeting, "Concluding our past, realising our future" 25-28 November 2019 Prof Keith Grainge Michelle Hussey Richard Oberland Althea Wilkinson Ralph Braddock Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy (Kent) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "The Square Kilometre Array: the radio telescope of the XXI century", STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy, University of Kent, 30th August 2019 ~ 60 people attended |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Seminar on MeerKAT Early Results Dr. Fernando Camilo |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar on MeerKAT Early Results Dr. Fernando Camilo 9th December 2020 Mike Pearson |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | UK SKA Science virtual meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UK SKA Science virtual meeting, March 2021, ~100 people attended Prof Keith Grainge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | UK SKA Town Hall meeting |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | UK SKA Town Hall meeting 2 March 2021 - virtual science meeting, attendee Hilary Kaye |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Workshop on HI Intensity Mapping with MeerKAT |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop on HI Intensity Mapping with MeerKAT, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2020, ~20 people attended Prof Keith Grainge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Workshop on White Rabbit timing solution |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop on White Rabbit timing solution, SKAO, Jodrell Bank, March 2020, ~20 people attended Prof Keith Grainge |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Xiamen University delegation visit (Jodrell Bank) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Prof Keith Grainge - "Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics", presentation to delegation from Xiamen University, 22 October 2019 4 delegates from Xiamen University |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |