Annual UK SKAO Science Committee Town Hall (17th & 18th November 2025)

The meeting aims to bring the UK SKA community together to provide information on science using the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) and its pathfinders.

For the first time, we are extending this meeting from one day to two. Expanding to two days will allow us to have a fuller scientific programme! There will, of course, still be general overviews and updates on SKAO science, construction, and a summary of the Görlitz meeting. There will be a large focus on contributed science talks from the UK community.

Early Career Researchers (ECRs; PhD/postdocs) are particularly encouraged to attend.

The meeting will be held at Cardiff University - Cardiff city centre, and will be offered as a hybrid event. Lunch will not be provided but refreshments will.

Speakers will include key representatives from the SKAO and the UK SKAO Regional Centre.

We encourage in person presence when possible. Please note that the event is expected to start mid-morning on Day 1 and run through the afternoon of Day 2.

The agenda will be shared with all the registered attendees in due course.

Call for Abstracts:

We are particularly keen to hear from people who have experience of or are currently working on SKA pathfinders and the important role they play as the SKA moves towards full operation. If you would like to submit an abstract for a talk, please fill in form here: UK SKAO Town Hall abstracts submission - November 2025

Abstracts deadline is set for Friday 26th September 2025, 5PM.

ECRs Travel Funding:

STFC has kindly provided funding for ECRs (PhD students and Postdocs) to help with travel and funding will be allocated based on needs, prioritizing ECRs from universities that have not received SKAO-related project funding.

ECR requests for travel support must be in line with UKRI’s business expense claims, business travel and subsistence policy and should be sent to Simon Haynes ([email protected]) and Jessica Atkinson ([email protected]) for consideration by Tuesday 30th September 2025.

Requests should be no more than one page and should include:

• Your science interests
• The reason why you want to attend this event
• An estimate of the funding needed, and why it is needed

To ensure the astrocommunity mailing list reaches the widest audience, please can recipients of this email encourage their colleagues, in particular early career researchers, to sign up to the astrocommunity mailing list at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ and to our the ukska-sciencecommunity list, which has a more targeted audience.

Please also feel free to join our UK SKAO Science Slack platform - - for general discussions.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Cardiff School of Physics and Astronomy, The Parade, Cardiff, United Kingdom