For full interview see the ska website On 25 May 2012 the Members of the SKA Organisation announced that the SKA telescope would be split between Africa and Australia, with all of the Phase 2 dishes destined to be built in Africa. Australia will host the Phase 2 aperture array antenna

The University of the Western Cape (UWC), together with the South African Astronomical Observatory (SAAO) and the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), has been awarded one of the recently announced  South African Research Chairs, as part of the ongoing major investment

The UWC astrophysics group would like to welcome Dr Elodie Giovannoli as a new post-doc. Elodie obtained her Phd  at the Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) in France and her thesis centred around the study of IR data (e.g. Herschel, Akari and Spitzer) through the SED

Ue-Li Pen is an Associate Director at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and will be giving a talk in the UWC Physics Building, Boardroom at 2:30pm on Monday 23rd January. Talk Title: “Mapping dark matter and neutrinos with cosmic tides”