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Wednesday 17 February

Pathways to SKA Science in Australasia

09:00 – 10:40  SKA Development in Australia

WA Infrastructure Development – Antony Schinckel (invited) (30 min)
Data processing challenges for SKA and ASKAP – Tim Cornwell (invited) (30 min)
Phased-Array Feeds for ASKAP and SKA - Aaron Chippendale (invited) (20 min)
Beam-forming systems - John Bunton (invited) (20 min)

11:10 – 12:40  SKA Development in New Zealand

SKA Engineering Developments in New Zealand –Tim Molteno (invited) (20 min)
Imaging for large-N large-b radio astronomy – Colin Fox (invited) (20 min) 
Towards Trans-Tasman eVLBI – Donald Clark (invited) (20 min)
New signal processing algorithms for the SKA - Philip Bones & Rick Millane (15 min)
Applications of redundant number systems to SKA signal processing? - Michael Hayes & Andrew Bainbridge-Smith (15 min)

13:40 – 15:20  SKA Development

RFI Protection - Carol Wilson (invited) (20 min)
University of Calgary SKA Engineering research - Len Bruton (20 min)
Developments in WA: ICRAR and The Pawsey Centre - Peter Quinn & Andrew Rohl  (15 min)
ASKAP calibration model - Max Voronkov (15 min)
The foundation of radio astronomy in New Zealand - Peter Robertson (15 min)
Poster presentations (2 min each)

15:50 - 17:30  Key Science

Probing AGN physics with the SKA – Roy Kerr (invited) (30 min)
Pulsars, General Relativity and the SKA - Willem van Straten (invited) (30 min)
The SKA - the global wavelength observatory - Joe Lazio (20 min)
Space and planetary science: "near field" applications of the SKA - Leonid Gurvits (20 min)

18:30  Conference Dinner in The Observatory Buffet Restaurant,
  Sky Tower, Corner Victoria and Federal Streets

Note:  Listed times include question time

 

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