Sentences with phrase «ska project»

While the Advisory Group members applauded the performance of the activity, they also reminded the Board that the SKA project may change the landscape of radio astronomy in Europe.

Japan Radio Astronomy Forum and Nobeyama Radio Observatory held a two - day joint symposium for SKA project on February 1 and 2.

For Dr. Bernie Fanaroff, a distinguished radio astronomer who until 2015 led South Africa's SKA Project and currently acts at the project's strategic adviser, science diplomacy is paramount.

Not exact matches

SKA Marin is the developer and prime sponsor of the redevelopment, as it was for the original project 22 years ago.

That's where a big project like SKA can make an impact.»

«SKA will be the premier project of the coming decades, completely revolutionizing radio astronomy,» said Ted Williams, director of the South African Astronomical Observatory.

By building on existing pilot projects in both countries, Womersley says that SKA will be made even more powerful.

Measuring the atomic hydrogen signal emitted by distant galaxies is one of the main scientific drivers behind the billion dollar Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, for which technology demonstrators like the Australian SKA Pathfinder are under construction.

«ASKAP is a really important scientific project in its own right but it will be more important when it is part of the SKA, which will be one of the most important scientific projects of the 21st century,» says Chris Evans, Australia's minister for science.

The government has also decided to back SKA, the world's biggest astronomy project, with # 119 million.

The SKA will also be the first astronomy project gathering three of the five major emerging national economies: India, China, and South Africa — the last of which will host the core of the radio telescope in its Karoo Desert.

In this symposium, the participants shared the current status of various radio telescope projects such as ALMA, the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) under discussion in the U.S., and SKA which will be constructed in Australia and Africa, as well as the presentations given by young and senior researchers on the progress and challenges of their researches and ideas of new projects.

Like the SKA itself, a coordinated, global effort will be required to solve these challenges and fully realize the ground - breaking scientific potential of the project.

The two keynoters Philip Diamond, Director General of SKA, and Rosie Bolton, SKA Regional Centre Project Scientist and Project Scientist for the international engineering consortium designing the high performance computers, took turns outlining radio astronomy history and SKA's ambition to build on that.