Meeting Program

Timezone: WEST - Western European Summer Time = GMT+1

Venue: University of Évora, Colégio do Espírito Santo

Date: 27 May 2025

Theatre 131
 

Square Kilometre Array - Cutting Edge Astronomical Facilities & Advanced Computing

14:00-14:05: Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session: SKA Science Regional Centres

14:05-14:35: (Keynote talk) - Domingos Barbosa, ENGAGE SKA & HPC Chair, Portugal "ENGAGE SKA: from capacity building to a PT Science Regional Centre prototype "

14:40-15:10: (Keynote talk) - Louise Chisholm, University College London & UK SKA Regional Centre, UK. "Developing UK SKA Regional Centre"

15:15-15:40: (Invited talk) - Susana Sánchez Expósito, Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA - CSIC), Granada, Spain.. "The Spanish SRC initiative: supporting national preparatory activities for SKAO and contributing to the SRCNet"

15:45 - 16:00 Coffee Break

Session: Science with SKA

16:00-16:30: (Keynote talk) - Josep Miquel Girart Medina, Institut dEstudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC), Spain. "The SKA Cradlke of Life Science Working group"

16:35-17:00: (Invited talk) - José Fonseca, University of Porto, Portugal. "Cosmology with HI intensity mapping with the SKAO and precursors"

17:05-17:30: (Invited talk) - Sonia Antón, University of Coimbra, Portugal. "The loudest Radio-Shadows: Blazars and the Assembly of Black Holes in the SKAO-VLBI era"

17:35-18:00: (Invited talk) - Dalmiro Maia, University of Porto, Portugal. "Software development and guidelines for the SKA and the SKA Regional Centres"

18:00 Meeting Summary & Farewell