2026 SKA Korea Summer Workshop

Date & Time: August 19-21 (Wed-Fri), 2026

Venue: KAIST Lecture Hall at College of Natural Sciences building (Bldg E6-1's 1st floor, Room 1501), Daejeon
                대전 카이스트 자연과학대학 (E6-1 건물 1층 1501호/공동강의실)

Rationale

The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) is currently under construction, with the Science Verification and the Cycle 0 phases expected to begin in the near future. Researchers in Korea have been actively contributing to the SKA through various Science Working Groups (SWGs) and recent SKA-VLBI activities. Korea will also formally join the SKA Observatory, further strengthening its role within the global SKA community. These developments represent an important and exciting milestone for the Korean SKA community as preparations advance toward the forthcoming phases of SKA operations and data exploitation. 

We are pleased to invite you to the SKA Korea Summer Workshop 2026, which will provide an excellent opportunity for the community to come together and discuss key topics, including current and future SKA-related science, progress on the Korean SKA data center (SKA Regional Centre), strategies for SDC4 participation, and future human resource development program. Invited and contributed talks, together with group discussions, are planned to foster the exchange of ideas and help coordinate key SKA-related activities for the coming year. Researchers from all areas of astronomy and related fields, not limited to radio astronomy, are warmly encouraged to attend and contribute to discussions on the future steps of SKA science and data readiness in Korea.

*** In this Summer Workshop, we particularly encourage all students who have been involved in the SKA Korea research funding programs to present their research progress and related activities. We aim to accommodate as many presentations as possible to showcase and highlight research projects being conducted within the community. Presentations on new initiatives, ongoing projects, or even very preliminary results are highly welcome. Contributions from all other participants are also more than welcome.

Registration + Abstract Submission

• Registration closes: July 24 Friday midnight (CLOSED)

  • Please complete the registration form in the link: https://forms.gle/ZNCuH9wjmaXARs9L9

• Abstract submission closes: July 10 Friday midnight (CLOSED)

  • For those planning to give a talk, please submit your abstract through the link above.

• There is no registration fee.

• (CLOSED) Free accommodation for student /postdocs is available on a first-come, first-served basis. Please indicate your request in the registration form (Planned: Toyoko-inn Daejeon).

• Lunch will be provided on Day 2 (Aug 20 Thu, on campus).

• Dinner will be provided on Day 2 (Aug 20 Thu, on campus); if you wish to attend, kindly indicate your participation when filling out the registration form.

Contact: Hyein Yoon, hiyoon (at) kasi.re.kr

Location

• KAIST Lecture Hall at College of Natural Sciences Building (Bldg E6-1's 1st floor, Room 1501), Daejeon
  대전 카이스트 자연과학대학 (E6-1 건물 1층 1501호, 공동강의실): https://natsci.kaist.ac.kr/sub0104

Program ver. Aug 14, 2026 

Note for speakers: Please upload your presentation slides to the Google Drive (link) by midnight on the day before your presentation. We will use a shared Windows PC for all presentations.

• Presentation sildes: English

• Presentation language: Up to each speaker's preference
  As there will be international participants, we kindly ask that all "presentation slides" be prepared in English whenever possible. Many speakers at this workshop are students, so the choice of presentation language is entirely up to each speaker. However, speakers are encouraged to consider the audience and present in English if they feel comfortable doing so.

Day 1. Aug 19 Wed

12:30 - 13:00 Registration

Session 1. SKAO: Current Status [Chair: Bong Won Sohn]

• • 13:00 - 13:10 Welcome

  • 13:10 - 14:00 Jane Kaczmarek (SKAO), The SKA is coming: readiness, early use & community engagement (40+10 min)

14:00 - 14:20 Break (20 min)

Session 2. SKA-Korea and Korea SRC [Chair: Junhan Kim]

• • 14:20 - 15:00 Bong Won Sohn (KASI), 한국 SKA 사업 현황과 계획 (Current Status and Future Plans of the SKA-Korea Project) (30+10 min)

  • 15:00 - 15:20 Jungha Kim (KASI), KRSRC in SRCNet: Current Status and Plans for Science Verification (15+5 min)

15:20 - 15:40 Break (20 min)

Session 3. SKA-Korea Science Overview [Chair: Jungha Kim]

• • 15:40 - 16:05 Hyein Yoon (KASI), Science with the SKA: An Overview of the AASKA II Science Chatpers (20+5 min)

Session 4. Solar and Stellar Physics [Chair: Jungha Kim]

• • 16:05 - 16:30 Kyung Suk Cho (KASI), Studying Quasi-Periodic Pulsations in Solar and Stellar Flares with the SKA (20+5 min) 

  • 16:30 - 16:45 Hee Il Kim (Sogong Univ.), Collapse of Supermassive stars (12+3 min)

  • 16:45 - 17:00 Jihye Hwang (Kyushu Univ.), Tracing Magnetic Fields with the Zeeman Effect: From MeerKAT to the SKA (12+3 min)

  • 17:00 - 17:15 Bao Truong (UST/KASI), Probing 3D Magnetic Fields of the Local Bubble with Starlight Polarization and Faraday Rotation: Future Perspectives in the SKA Era (12+3 min)

Day 2. Aug 20 Thu

Session 5. HI and Extragalactic Science 

• • 09:30 - 09:55 Se-Heon Oh (Sejong Univ.), MeerKAT's view of cold-mode accretion and gas disequilibrium in nearby dwarf galaxies (20+5 min)

  • 09:55 - 10:10 Bumhyun Lee (Yonsei Univ.), MeerKAT-JCMT Synergy: Environmental Effects on Virgo Dwarf Galaxies (12+3 min)

  • 10:10 - 10:25 Anthony Carr (KASI), Next generation peculiar velocity science in the southern hemisphere with SKA (12+3 min)

  • 10:25 - 10:40 Seung-Yeon Lee (UNIST), Discovering Spiral-Host Double-Lobed Radio AGNs with LoTSS DR3 (12+3 min)
    
    10:40 - 11:10 Break (30 min)

Session 6. Extragalactic Science and Cosmology 

• • 11:10 - 11:25 Yunjeong Lee (KHU), Pilot Study for SKA-VLBI: Resolving Jet Composition with eKVN & POSSUM and Developing a Mosaicking/Cutout Tool  (*remote, 12+3 min)

  • 11:25 - 11:40 Chandra Shekhar Saraf (KASI), Cosmology from SKAO-mid continuum survey (*remote, 12+3 min)

  • 11:40 - 11:55 David Parkinson (KASI), An SKAO AA4 simulation of cosmology from the clustering of continuum galaxies (12+3 min)

  • 11:55 - 12:10 Jeffrey Hodgson (Sejong Univ.), Cosmology with Counter-jet distances (12+3 min)

12:10 - 13:30 Lunch (80 min)

Session 7. VLBI with Low-Frequency 

• • 13:30 - 13:55 Junhan Kim (KAIST), KAIST-ATNF Joint Research Center for Low-frequency VLBI (20+5 min)

  • 13:55 - 14:10 Jiwon Jang (KAIST), Pathway to LAMBDA-Korea: Overview of the LAMBDA Instruments and Associated Challenges (12+3 min)

  • 14:10 - 14:25 Thanawat Nakmorn (KAIST), Electronics and Instrumentation for Bustling Universe Radio Survey Telescope in Taiwan (BURSTT) (12+3 min)

  • 14:25 - 14:40 Sieun Go (UST/KASI), Preparing for SKA-Low VLBI through BURSTT Backend and Correlation Training (12+3 min)

  • 14:40 - 14:55 Eunchan Lee (KAIST), Science Preparation with LAMBDA and BURSTT-Pyeongchang (12+3 min)

14:55 - 15:15 Break (20 min)

Session 8. Discussion [Chair: Bong Won Sohn]

• • 15:15 - 20:00 Discussion (topics to be announced later) 

Dinner  - will be provided during the discussion

Day 3: Aug 21 Fri

• Session 9. VLBI Technique/Astrometry/SKA SDC4 

  • 09:30 - 09:45 Mingyu Ryu (UNIST), Neural Network for Faraday Rotation Measure Synthesis: Early-Stage Development Toward SDC4 (12+3 min)

  • 09:45 - 10:00 Minji Kim (UST/KASI), Toward High-Precision VLBI Astrometry for the SKA Era: Introducing the PINPT_MSP Project (12+3 min)

  • 10:00 - 10:15 Daehyun Kim (Sejong Univ.), Automated image domain parameter extraction from wide-field SKA-VLBI observations (12+3 min)

  • 10:15 - 10:30 Taeho Kang (UNIST), Simulation Study of Future Space- and Lunar-VLBI Arrays and Possible Extensions to the SKA (12+3 min)

10:30 - 11:00 Break (30 min)

• Session 10. VLBI with High-Frequency 

  • 11:00 - 11:10 Yoojin Choi (UNIST), Probing circular polarization in the core of M87 using multi-year VLBA 15 GHz observations (8+2 min)

  • 11:10 - 11:25 Yu-Sik Kim (UNIST), Parsec-scale Evolution of the Jet in PKS 1749+096 associated with multiple IceCube neutrino events (12+3 min)

  • 11:25 - 11:40 Ho Jun Jeong (UNIST), VLBA Polarimetry of the neutrino blazar PKS 0735+178 (12+3 min)

  • 11:40 - 11:55 Deokheyong Lee (UNIST), Multi-frequency synthesis imaging of M87 at 15, 43, and 86 GHz using RESOLVE (12+3 min)

11:55 - 12:10 Closing 

Participants  (last update: Aug 10)
* indicates 29 participants who would like to give a talk. Please submit the title and a brief abstract of your talk as soon as possible, if you have not done so yet.

Scientific Organizing Committee

• Bong Won Sohn (KASI)

• Hyein Yoon (KASI)

• Ilje Cho (KNU)

• Jungyeon Cho (CNU)

• Junhan Kim (KAIST)

• Min-Young Lee (KASI)

• Se-Heon Oh (Sejong Univ.)

Contact: mlee (at) kasi.re.kr

Local Organizing Committee

• Bong Won Sohn (KASI)

• Eunchan Lee (KAIST)

• Heebeom Yang (KAIST)

• Heebin Yang (KAIST)

• Hyein Yoon (KASI)

• Jiwon Jang (KAIST)

• Junhan Kim (KAIST)

• MinSu Ko (KAIST)

• Min-Young Lee (KASI)

• Thanawat Nakmorn (KAIST)

• Yeomoon Yoon (KAIST)

Contact: hiyoon (at) kasi.re.kr

Last edit: 10 Aug 2026 Hyein Yoon