Square Kilometre Array where Science meets Industry

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1 Square Kilometre Array where Science meets Industry Nigel Rix, Director of Electronics; ESP KTN

2 Technology Strategy Board The vision of the Technology Strategy Board: UK to be a global leader in innovation a magnet for innovative businesses where technology is applied rapidly, effectively and sustainably to create wealth and enhance quality of life. Strategy (11 to 14): Concept to Commercialisation Everything we do is driven by one question: will it help UK business bring new ideas and technologies to market?

3 ESP Knowledge Transfer Network The Knowledge Transfer Networks are a Technology Strategy Board-funded network of networks, enabling you to grow your business through the exploitation of innovative technology. You will increase your chances of accessing UK R&D funding. You will advance your position within the UK s technology supply chain and accelerate your route to market. You will make better strategic business decisions based on knowledge of the innovation landscape.

4 A Golden Age for Astronomy ALMA mm/sub-mm SKA radio E-ELT optical JWST infra-red

5 Antenna Types In numbers: It will stretch across 3,000km with 2,500 high frequency dishes 2.5 million low-frequency antennas. 40 million mid-frequency antennas Artist renditions from Swinburne Astronomy Productions

6 40 Million Sensors 1 PB/sec 10x Internet Traffic Renewable Power 2.5 ExaFlops Software Engineers 3 ExaBytes per year

7 SKA pushing the envelope Low-cost antennas Low-cost, high-performance receiving systems Non-cryogenic cooling > 1Pb/s data transport (> 10x internet traffic of the Earth) Low-power signal processing Distribution of time at pico-second level over thousands of kilometres Exascale computing Data mining algorithms Sustainable power in remote regions

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9 UK in the SKA Project Science leadership of early concept and baseline science case Policy leadership: PrepSKA Coordinator Chairmanship of SKA Board and predecessors Key policy issues Business plan etc Technical involvement and funding since 2006: Technical, R&D funding, array development, signal transport, software & computing Dedicated budget for SKA from BIS

10 LOFAR-UK

11 Initial set of events for Industry SKA Overview - Science Museum - July 2008 SKA Analogue Old Trafford Oct 2008 SKA System Cavendish Dec 2008 SKA Arrays Manchester Museum Feb 2009 SKA DSP Oxford July 2009 Total of 208 individuals from 121 different organisations

12 Antenna

13 Technology World 09 Lord Davies and many other visitors Presentation by Peter Wilkinson

14 SKA Industry Events Industrial Engagement with SKA Event to bring Industry, Universities and SPDO to outline opportunities for industrial engagement UK SKA Industry Cluster Meeting Brought together a number of relevant companies to discuss formation of Industry Cluster Produced an outline aims and objectives SKA International Conference Banff The first International SKA Industry Conference Brought together the various SKA Clusters

15 Objectives of UK Cluster Help UK industry to be an effective part of the SKA programme Develop industry-to-industry relationships in stakeholder countries Establish guide for industry collaboration for future mega-science programs Promote the non-science benefits from SKA (eg IT, Comms, Renewable Energy, manufacturing & systems engineering)

16 Global Industry Cooperation

17 Principles of MoU Clusters are not about scale, but about relationships. They are spawned, not manufactured Clusters depend on creating community Trust is a key factor underpinning innovation & increased productivity Clusters should be Industry-led but embrace government, research & the regional community Clusters should be based on a Statement of Principles rather than prescriptive legal agreements

18 Industry Participation landscape Canadian Industry Cluster The SKA Office UK SKA Industry Group Dutch Industry Alliance German / Spain / Portugal Green Energy alliance Industry Consortia SKA Korea Industry Working Group Japanese SKA Industry Consortium USA Industry Alliance Spanish Industry Consortia Italian SKA Industry Consortium Key International MoU for SKA Industry Engagement Collaboration Chinese Gov/ Industry Collective Formal Consortium Indian Gov/TATA Consortium Managed Cohort Australasian SKA Industry Cluster Loose Alliance TBA Vendor Listing Compiled by P. Crosby (SKA Office, and J. Humphreys (ASKAIC). 2012

19 Schedule to start

20 Interaction between Industry & SKA Co-funded with consortium member Through secondment active participation in the development of the engineering requirements in close collaboration Through advisory role comment on our documents against your roadmaps, etc. - probably self-funded Through contracts specific tasks, modelling, simulations etc.

21 International Opportunities

22 Affiliate NZSKAIC

23 Impact of Radio Astronomy: specific examples Radio imaging algorithms had strong influence on medical tomography, NMR imaging, finger-print detection, speed cameras! Development of intensity interferometry by Hanbury-Brown and Twiss at Jodrell Bank in 1950s led to quantum cryptography Very Long Baseline Interferometry measures rotational parameters of Earth, directly useful to GPS and navigation: civil and military applications. Need to locate mobile antennas in France led to founding of Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd, techniques used by GPS and Galileo NEOs: using radar astronomy to determine orbits of NEOs

24 Story of IEEE : wifi 1970s: John O Sullivan searches for Exploding Black Holes There has to be a better way 1980s: perfected Fourier Transform on a chip Impact! 1996: CSIRO obtains US patent : Skellern develops a wireless chip meeting IEEE standards > 1 billion devices sold using this chip CSIRO has received > $450m income from its patent.

25 What will be the Spin-off Benefits from SKA? Limited by the imagination! Photo courtesy NASA

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27 Contacts: For Further Information Nigel Rix (UK Industry Contact Point) Louis Barson (Head of Science and Innovation Unit Phil Crosby (Manager - Industry Participation Strategy) crosby@skatelescope.org