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SUMMARY:RIA Meeting: Physics opportunities with a new universe’s view: t
 he SKA radio telescope
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171106T082000Z
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20171107T170000Z
DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20261014T203922Z
UID:indico-event-3046@indico.ific.uv.es
DESCRIPTION:The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will be a multi-purpose radio
 -interferometer with a collecting area of 1 square kilometre\, distributed
  over a distance of at least 3000 km\, co-located in Africa and Australia.
  Qualified as landmark project in the European Strategy Forum on Research 
 Infrastructures (ESFRI) and high-priority in the ASTRONET roadmaps\, SKA i
 s a unique science instrument\, with up to 10 times more sensitivity\, and
  hundred times faster survey capabilities than current radio- interferomet
 ers\, that will provide leading edge science in the 21st century involving
  multiple science disciplines. The physics cases of this future multidisci
 plinary powerful telescope include Cosmology and Large Scale Structure\, E
 poch of Reionization (EoR)\, Galaxy evolution\, Milky Way physics\, Cosmic
  magnetism\, Stellar Astrophysics and the Cradle of Life.\n\nThe high comm
 itment from the Spanish community to SKA is clearly shown in the “Spanis
 h SKA White Book”\, published in 2015\, which counted with the participa
 tion of 120 Spanish astronomers from 40 research centres. Nowadays 24 Span
 ish astrophysicists are members of 9 out of the 11 SKA Science Working Gro
 ups and more than 20 Spanish institutions and companies contribute to 7 ou
 t of 11 international SKA design consortia. A representative of MINECO is 
 regularly invited to the SKA Board meetings since 2014. In 2016 a report w
 as produced for the Evaluation of the participation of Spain in the SKA by
  the Secretary of State with a positive outcome. This has been followed by
  open and fluent negotiations with the SKA Organization\, to find out the 
 best way to join SKA as Full Member.\n\nA call for Key Science Projects (K
 SP) will be issued by 2019. These KSPs will be using 50-75% of observation
  time during the first 5 years of SKA activity. Hence it is crucial that t
 he Spanish scientific community actively participates in the preparation o
 f proposals for KSPs by exploiting the fruitful synergies between SKA and 
 its precursors (MeerKAT\, ASKAP\, MWA and HERA) and ongoing and future nat
 ional and international astrophysical and cosmological observatories (E-EL
 T\, ALMA\, Chandra\, MAGIC\, CTA) and surveys (CALIFA\, JPAS).\n\nThe majo
 r goal of this meeting is to maximize the interplay between the SKA Scienc
 e and the Particle\, Astroparticle\, Planetary Sciences\, Astrobiology and
  the Cosmology communities\, going beyond radioastronomers and even astron
 omers.\n\nhttps://indico.ific.uv.es/event/3046/
LOCATION:Universe Salon Actos
URL:https://indico.ific.uv.es/event/3046/
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