International SKA Forum talks now available. April 16, 2008
Posted by astroed in Astronomy, Education.trackback
I spent a few days in Perth last week. The main purpose of my trip as to attend the International SKA Forum. This one-day meeting gave participants and up-to-date report on the Science case for this ambitious radio telescope, the Square Kilometre Array. Other sessions addressed engineering developments, business engagement and presentations from the two short-listed candidate countries to hot the SKA; Australia and South Africa, on their sites and pathfinder telescopes, ASKAP and MeerKAT.
My presence was due to the inclusion of a half-hour slot on the education potential of the SKA. This was a pleasing inclusion and generated lots of interesting questions and ideas from the audience. Hopefully this will spur continued education programs over coming years as the SKA is developed. All of the talks are now available for download from the AuSKA website forum page. They provide a useful introduction to the scale and scope of this exciting project.
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