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The Fifth National Workshop on the SKA Project

24–28 Nov 2025
Bologna, Area della Ricerca del CNR
Europe/Rome timezone

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SKA Italy

SKA Italy
24 Nov 2025, 15:40
Centro Congressi (Bologna, Area della Ricerca del CNR )

Centro Congressi

Bologna, Area della Ricerca del CNR

Via P. Gobetti 101

Conveners

SKA Italy

  • Chair: Grazia Umana

SKA Italy: SKA-Italy

  • Chair: Filippo Zerbi

SKA Italy

  • Chair: Roberto Ragazzoni

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  1. 112. The SKA Observatory from an Italian perspective
    Dr Isabella Prandoni (INAF)
    24/11/2025, 15:40
  2. 113. The Italian SKA Regional Center: development plans
    Andrea Possenti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    24/11/2025, 16:30
  3. 114. The SKA Observation Management and Control Software: the italian contribution
    G. Marotta & M. Canzari
    24/11/2025, 16:50
  4. 115. SKA Precursors: The Italian participation to MeerKAT and MeerKAT+
    Grazia Maria Gloria Umana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    24/11/2025, 17:10
  5. 117. The STILES MeerKAT Band 5 project
    Dr Maria Grazia Labate (INAF)
    24/11/2025, 17:30

    The MeerKAT Band 5B project aims to extend the frequency coverage of the MeerKAT radio telescope by installing 64 new cryogenic receivers on each MeerKAT antenna. These receivers will operate over the 8.3–15.4 GHz frequency range, corresponding to Band 5b of SKA-Mid.
    This will enhance and enable relevant studies in cosmological surveys, galaxy formation and evolution, star formation and the...

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  6. 116. Science with MeerKAT and MeerKAT+: present involvement of the Italian community and plans
    Tiziana Venturi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    24/11/2025, 17:45

    In this presentation I will give a brief overview of the impact of MeerKAT in the scientific activities of INAF, based on the trend of the proposals submitted and accepted in response to the MeerKAT Calls for Proposals from 2019 to the present. I will then report on the MeerKAT+ developments with focus on the Italian contribution to the legacy survey programme.

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  7. 119. The LOFAR ERIC: Italian involvement
    Gianfranco Brunetti, Gianfranco Brunetti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 09:25
  8. 120. LOFAR 2.0 - overview, status and the Italian involvement
    Francesco De Gasperin (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 09:45

    In this presentation I will discuss the LOFAR 2.0 from an Italian perspective. A number of upgrades to the LOFAR telescope, collectively deemed LOFAR 2.0, are drastically increasing LOFAR performance, in particular the low-band antenna ability to deliver cutting edge science. LOFAR 2.0 upgrades show the long term investment and the large interest of the scientific community in the ultra-low...

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  9. 91. SRC-Italy within the federated SRCNet
    Giuliano Taffoni (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 10:00

    The SKA Regional Centre network (SRCNet) is the federated, international layer that brings SKA data and analysis capabilities to researchers worldwide, providing access to data products, platforms near the data, and coordinated user support and training.  Within this framework, we present SRC-Italy (INAF) as a node based on INAF computing and storage resources hosted and integrated within...

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  10. 89. Developing the Italian SKA Regional Centre: Services, Integration, and Future Directions (remote talk)
    Giuseppe Tudisco (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 10:15

    The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) relies on a network of regional centres, known as SKA Regional Centres (SRCs), to manage the vast amounts of data generated by the telescopes, and to provide the global scientific community with seamless access to processing and support services. Each SRC will contribute to this distributed infrastructure by offering data storage, high-performance computing,...

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  11. 100. The contribution of itSRC: from science data products to community engagement
    Vincenzo Galluzzi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 10:30

    The SKA Regional Centres Network (SRCNet) is the sole interface between the SKA Observatory (SKAO) and the international scientific community. Within this framework, Science Delivery is a core service to support, enable and coordinate the delivery of SKA science, covering many aspects from the generation of science-ready data products to user support and community engagement.
    In this talk, we...

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  12. 121. An overview of INAF's cooperation with South Africa: context, programmes and opportunities
    Dr Pierguido Sarti (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))
    28/11/2025, 10:45
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