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• Program
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Monday 20th June
Opening session
9.30 Welcome and introductions (Marco de Vos, Richard Schilizzi)
Session I International plans (chair: Wim van Cappellen)
9.45 Peter Hall Focal Plane Arrays & SKA
10.00 John O’Sullivan The Australian NTD and xNTD Projects
10.45 Jin Chengjin The possible applications of the FPA technology at the FAST focus
12.00 Andrew Faulkner UK FPA plans
14.00 Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate PHAROS
14.45 Bruce Veidt A Phased-Array Feed Demonstrator for Radio Telescopes
16.00 Justin Jonas,Dirk Baker The Karoo Array Telescope (KAT) & FPA effort in South Africa
16.45 Robert Braun Plans and science for a WSRT FPA

Tuesday 21st June

Session II Antenna and RF modeling (chair: Parbhu Patel)
9.00 Anton Tijhuis Antenna Array Modeling in the Netherlands
9.30 Rob Maaskant Noise Budget Analysis of the FPA
10.00 Christophe Craeye Efficient simulation of finite wideband arrays for focal plane applications
     
Session III System Design and Evaluation (chair: Jan Simons)
11.00 Marianna Ivashina Holographic performance verification of a Focal Plane Array Prototype
11.30 Vladimir Khaikin Multibeam FPAs for MM-wave radio telescope: simulation and realization
12.00 Stuart Hay FPA Concepts and Modelling at CSIRO
12.30 Andre Gunst Digital processing for LOFAR and EMBRACE
   
Session IV Business and Collaboration (chair: Arnold van Ardenne)

14.00 Introductions by Peter Hall, Peter Wilkinson and Marco de Vos.

Informal discussion on topics like international collaboration and common approaches to dealing with international companies.