November Monthly Meeting – The Square Kilometre Array

Our meetings include brief business, a main presentation and items of astronomical news or learning from members.

The November Main Item will be a talk via Zoom by Dr Jimi Green, CSIRO (WA), on The Square Kilometre Array.  Synopsis below.

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Synopsis of Main Item talk.

Dr Green will talk about the Square Kilometre Array Observatory, the World’s largest radio observatory, currently under construction. The observatory will consist of telescopes in both Australia and South Africa, utilising different complementary technologies, to see different parts of the radio universe, to answer the big questions facing astronomy. With operations expected before the end of the decade, he will talk about the science motivating the observatory, what the observatory actually is, and show the progress of construction together with the establishment of the intergovernmental organisation.

About Jimi Green: He is the Head of the Science Operations for the Australian component of the telescope, ‘SKA-Low’. He is originally from the UK, doing his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees there, before moving to Australia to initially take up postdoctoral research positions utilising Australian telescopes (Murriyang, the Parkes Radio telescope, and the Australian Telescope Compact Array). He then went back to the UK for a few years to work for the SKA (at the headquarters near Manchester) in defining the science cases and high level requirements, before moving back to Australia in 2016 to be the Senior Systems Scientist for Murriyang. He held this role for 6 years before then rejoining the SKA in his current role in 2022. He lives and works in Perth, where the Science Operations Centre for SKA-Low are located.