News: On 5 December 2022 the SKA Observatory celebrated start of construction of its world-leading radio telescopes in Australia and South Africa and announced EUR300 million worth of construction contracts.

The aim of this lunch session is to update the broader community on the current status of the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, the timelines for the construction and operation of the SKA, and the envisaged plans data handling and access. The secondary aim is to give the community a high-level overview of the range and diversity of key science planned to be done with the SKA and to foster engagement with the SKAO.

Programme

• The SKA: Project description
• The SKA: Timelines to science
• The SKA: The Data
• 2-3 invited key Science talks covering the broad range of science to be enabled by the SKA

Invited speakers

Project review talks will be given by SKAO staff and science review talks by invited members of the SKA science working groups.

• The SKA: Key Science - Tyler Bourke (SKAO)
• The SKA: Operations - Shari Breen (SKAO)
• Extragalactic continuum - Isabella Prandoni (INAF)
• Pulsars and FRBs - Jason Hessels (UvA/ASTRON)
• Radio stars and Planetary Nebulae - Marcin Hajduk (UWM)

Scientific organisers

Wendy Williams (SKAO)

Contact

wendy.williams @ skao.int