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18-04-2018
AENEAS all-hands meeting in Nice, France
| Submitter: | Rob van der Meer |
| Description: | On 26-28 March 2018, the AENEAS (Advanced European Network of E-infrastructures for Astronomy with the SKA) project had its second all-hands meeting. This time we visited the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur (OCA) in Nice, France. The photo shows the participants of this meeting in front of the Astronomical observatory, built by Charles Garnier and Gustave Eiffel on top of Mont Gros, Nice, in 1881. Besides the usual status updates and parallel sessions for Work Package face-to-face meetings, we had several presentations by astronomers involved in the SKA Science Working Groups (SWG) to discuss the functionality the SKA Regional Centre (SRC) network will need to provide in order to support their science. Although the scientists came well prepared to describe their science cases, it was clear from the discussion that the translation into what is needed to support extracting science from the raw data was far from complete. Following the presentations by the SWG group members, there was a lively discussion section that proved a good starting point for the work for the coming months where this interaction with the science community will intensify and a full gap analysis will be compiled to understand what we do not yet know as well as how to solve the challenges we do know. At the next all-hands meeting, in October 2018 in Bologna, we will give an update on this ongoing discussion with the SKA Science Working Groups as well as the evolving detailed requirements for the SKA Regional Centre (SRC) network. The AENEAS project started in January 2017 and runs for a total of three years. The ultimate objective of the AENEAS project is to develop a concept and design for a distributed, federated European Science Data Centre (ESDC) to support the astronomical community in achieving the scientific goals of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). AENEAS brings together all the European member states currently part of the SKA project as well as potential future EU SKA national partners, the SKA Organisation itself, and a larger group of international partners including the two host countries Australia and South Africa. AENEAS is funded by a EU H2020 grant. More information on the meeting can be found at http://indico.astron.nl/event/AENEAS-Nice. |
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