SKA – Delivering the Science

Cambridge, 12-13 April 2016

The primary goal of this meeting was to stimulate discussion between the UK science community and the experts involved in the technical work packages for the SKA, especially science data processing. The workshop was aimed at helping UK astronomers to understand the practicalities of their proposed science programmes on the SKA, and to help the technical experts to gain an appreciation of the aspirations and priorities of the science community. The SKA organisation is now making preparations for how Key Science Programmes will be formulated, and decisions on the scope of Regional Processing Centres, so this workshop was particularly timely for UK astronomers for whom the SKA will play a significant role in the coming decade.

Further details on the SKA meeting.

Presentations from the meeting

Primal-dual algorithms for next-generation radio-interferometric imaging	Alexandru Onose
SDP Data Products and Rates	Rosie Bolton
MIGHTEE: The plan going forward	Matt Jarvis
The Science Data Processor and Regional Centre Overview	Paul Alexander
SKA – MID Sensitivity	Mike Jones
Signal and Data Transport for the SKA	Keith Grainge
Techniques and tools for weak lensing with the SKA	Michael ‘Jimmy’ Tarr
Deep continuum imaging with LOFAR	Wendy Williams
Synergy between intensity mapping, optical and CMB surveys	Alkistis Pourtsidou
Calibration of low frequency radio astronomy data on cloud infrastructures	Jose Sabater Montes
Plenary discussion day 1 - challenges faced by SDP for imaging
The SKA imaging and calibration challenge	Bojan Nikolic
Data and Analysis Requirements for Precision Cosmology with Radio Weak Lensing	Ian Harrison
Maser Discoveries with the SKA	Steve Goldman
Machine Learning & Science Data Processing	Rob Lyon
Fast imaging for slow transients	Anna Scaife
Observation Management In the SKA Observatory	Alan Bridger
Fast Transients in the SKA Era	Carole Mundell
Wide-field Near-real-time Radio Transient Surveys	Kunal Mooley
Karastergiou	Karastergiou
Hunting explosive events with the SKA	Anthony Rushton
EoR simulation pipeline	C. Watkinson
LSST and SKA	Bob Mann
Plenary discussion 2 - regional centres discussion points
Computational synergies between LSST and SKA	Bob Mann
21cm predictions in reionization models calibrated with Lya forest data	Martin Haehnelt