Perth friends and colleagues are invited to network and learn with us as we share ideas and celebrate HPC and science. Join us for a special presentation from Associate Professor Cathryn Trott titled: Software Telescopes: Astronomy in the Era of the Square Kilometre Array. It will be held at DUG’s Perth office, Thursday 25 February at 3pm.
We are very excited to have Professor Trott present at our HPC Hour. As 2020 closed the SKA Convention was ratified by the final of the five participating nations completing the process needed for the Observatory to be formally created. The SKA project is one of the most ambitious science and engineering endeavours of the 21st century. Professor Trott’s presentation will be fascinating to us all and places at this HPC Hour will be in high demand:
Over the past 20 years, astronomy has entered the realm of big data science, with increases in the size and scientific ambitions of telescopes. This transition promises to take a leap forward with the Square Kilometre Array; the world’s largest radio telescope being built in Western Australia and South Africa. Poised to deliver advances in our understanding of the Universe, the data and software challenges associated with such a project force us into the era of software telescopes, where science, instrumentation and HPC computing are married together. I will describe efforts to design and build the SKA, and the scientific returns it promises.
Cathryn Trott is an Associate Professor, and ARC Future Fellow, at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy and International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. Professor Trott leads the Epoch of Reionisation project to explore the first billion years of the Universe with radio telescopes, and is heavily involved in the design and data processing for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and future Square Kilometre Array (SKA) EoR projects.
If you’d like to join us for this informative presentation, which will be followed by networking and refreshments, drop us an email at [email protected].
