Speaker
Robert Braun
Description
The current status of the SKA Project will be summarised, highlighting progress toward a completed design, establishment of the Observatory and consolidation of a construction and comissioning plan. The many science areas in which the SKA is anticipated to make major contributions will be briefly reviewed, together with a discussion of the SKA Data Challenges that are now underway to maximise community engagement with SKA data products and the optimised science extraction from them.