on 09-09-2010
The Square Kilometer Array: Paving the way for the new 21st century radio astronomy paradigm
9th-10th September 2010 www.jenam2010.org
Lisbon, Portugal
Deadline : 07/07/2010 End of early registration; 31/08/2010 End of late registration
The Square Kilometer Array will provide more than one order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity compared with any existing radio telescope over a wavelength range of several hundred to one, from decametric to microwave wavelengths. It will revolutionize the study of the most abundant element in the Universe, hydrogen, from the epoch of reionisation to the present-day, probing the onset formation period of the very first stars, look in depth to proto-planets and, through the precision timing of pulsars, detect the distortions of space-time due to gravitational radiation. SKA is a sensor machine spawning 3000km in extension and a collecting area of more than 1 square kilometre, using technologies of XXIst century. SKA will allow the study at radio wavelengths of a wide range of phenomena initially studied at other wavelengths as well as opening a new discovery window on new phenomena at radio wavelengths. The JENAM Symposium is aimed at bringing these diverse opportunities to the attention of both theoretical and observational astronomers working at all wavelengths, including the potential for synergies with other facilities. We intend:
i. To bring to the attention of the broader astronomical community the scientific potential of the SKA
ii. To discuss scientific priorities and their impact on the design of the SKA
iii. To explore the synergies between the SKA and other next generation astronomical facilities in different wavelength domains such as the ALMA ,ELTs, LSST, JWST, GRE, IXO, Gaia and Euclid and high energy facilities (Auger).
iv. To explore the ciberinfrastructure” that may become available for the distribution and distributed analysis of SKA data.
Confirmed Speakers :
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- Richard Schilizzi (SPDO, UK): The Status of the SKA (Plenary Session)
- Rashid Sunyaev (MPA, Germany and IKI, Russia): The Early Universe (TBC)
- Simon Garrington (JBCfA, UK): Societal Impacts of SKA
- Mike Garrett (ASTRON, NL): Science from the Pathfinders
- Joe Lazio (NRL, USA): Transient Phenomena: Opportunities for New Discoveries (TBC)
- Paulo Freire (MPIfR, Germany) : Pulsars and the Detection of Gravity Waves
- Steve Rawlings (Oxford U, UK): The Square Kilometre Array: Tracing the Universe from the EoR to the Present
- Raffaella Morganti (ASTRON, NL): Using HI to trace outflows from galaxies and feeding of AGN
- Paolo Padovani (ESO): AGN, Star Formation, and the nanoJy Sky
- Yuri Kovalev (ASC, Russia): Quasars and AGN
- Irwin DeBlok (U Cape Town, South Africa): Understanding Gravity
- Marijke Haverkorn (ASTRON, NL): Cosmic Magnetism
- Andrei Lobanov (MPIfR, Germany) : The SKA long baselines
- Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON, NL): The SKA new Instrumentation Aperture Arrays
- Dave DeBoer (CASS/CSIRO, Australia): The SKA challenge
- Leonid Gurvits (JIVE): SKA in the context of space science and planetary exploration
- Giovanni Bignami (U Milan, Italy): High energy astrophysics: the view at SKA
- Heino Falcke (U Nijmegen, NL): SKA, Auger and fast time RadioAstronomy
- Patrick Charlot (Lab. For Astrophysics Bordeaux, France): Precision Astrometry from GAIA to SKA and talks on ELTs / SKA synergies (TBC)
- Dark energy and Dark matter: the Euclid’s look at SKA (TBC)
SOC
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- Prof. K. I. Kellermann, NRAO, USA (chair)
- Prof. R. Bachiller, IGN, Spain
- Prof. D. de Boer, CSIRO, Australia
- Prof. J. Cordes, Cornell, USA
- Prof. P. J. Diamond, U. of Manchester, UK
- Dr. L. Feretti, INAF - IRA, Bologna, Italy
- Prof. M. A. Garrett, ASTRON, The Netherlands
- Prof. L. I. Gurvits, JIVE, The Netherlands
- Prof. J. M. van der Hulst, U. of Groningen, The Netherlands
- Prof. J. Jonas, South Africa
- Prof. S. R. Rawlings, U. of Oxford, UK
- Prof. R. T. Schilizzi, SPDO
- Dr. S. Torchinsky, Observatoire de Paris, France
- Prof. Russ Taylor, U. Calgary, Canada
- Prof. J. A. Zensus, MPIfR, Germany
- LOC
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> Dr. Domingos Barbosa , IT- Aveiro, Portugal, (chair)
- Dr. Sónia Anton, CICGE-UP, Portugal
- Dr. Luis Cupido, IPFN, Portugal
- Dr. Mercedes Filho, CAUP, Portugal
- Dr. Dalmiro Maia, CICGE-UP, Portugal
- Dr. António Magalhães, CICGE-UP, Portugal
- Dr. Mário Santos, CENTRA-IST, Portugal