| 9th of August 2019 |
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| ATNF Colloquium |
| The SKA Challenge |
| Evan Keane (SKAO) |
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Abstract: In this talk I will overview the Square
Kilometre Array (SKA) project. Its lofty goal is to build the largest
radio observatory on the planet. The scientific targets are extremely
broad and should be transformational for our understanding of the
Universe. Such an ambitious project has many practical hurdles to
overcome to go from concept to reality, e.g. there are massive data
challenges in the era of the SKA that are unlike any ever encountered
for any scientific project before. I will describe the challenges that
have been overcome to date, give a status of the project as it stands
today, and outline the next series of challenges being tackled.
The Colloquium will be given at the CASS Kensington (Perth) site, and videocast to the Marsfield Lecture Theatre. |