CALIM 2010: The 5th SKA Workshop

on Calibration and Imaging


22 - 27 August 2010, Dwingeloo (NL)

Programme


Final Program for CALIM 2010, the 5th SKA workshop on Calibration
and Imaging. To be held in Dwingeloo (NL), 22-27 Aug 2010.

Some organizational points

For each talk, a **total** duration is indicated. So, 20 min actually means 15+5, leaving a little room for questions. Every speaker should checks his/her connection to the beamer beforehand, so that we can change over rapidly.

The space in the meeting room is not large enough to allow for tables, like we had in Socorro. Therefore, people will either have to suffer their laptops on their laps (we have wifi for all), or they can keep them under their chairs and perhaps pay attention to the talks.

During the conference, all talks will be open to the world by means of our EVO internet conferencing system. Some people will even give presentations remotely. Instructions for connecting to EVO/CALIM will be distributed.

At the end of each day, everyone is supposed to leave the ASTRON building before, say, 18:30. The hotel has a nice area with a bar (and wifi), where we can continue to enjoy each other until late in the night. There will be no other guests to distract us.

The hotel will serve a buffet breakfast from 07:30. Coffee, lunch and tea will be served at ASTRON. For dinner, it offers two restaurants. In addition, nearby Dwingeloo is a tourist village with a variety of restaurants.

Keep an eye on the football match on monday.



 

Sun 22 Aug:

18:00 Welcome reception at the Hotel de Borken, Lhee. This includes soup and rolls.

NB: Initially, drinks will be on ASTRON, but at some point people will have to start paying for themselves. Understandably, the precise moment will not be announced beforehand.


Posters:

NB: The poster boards will be at the back of the meeting room, separating it from the ASTRON canteen. They will be be filled with the programmed poster contributions (see above), and with any additional posters that people care to bring. Any remaining empty space will be filled by ASTRON/JIVE.



 

Mon 23 Aug:


09:00 Welcome by Marco de Vos, Deputy Director of ASTRON
09:10 - 10:30 Session I: Setting the Scene.
Chair: de Vos
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** Coffee **
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11:00 - 12:00 Session I: Setting the Scene (cont'd)
Chair: Noordam
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** Lunch **
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13:30 - 15:30 Session II: Progress in Imaging
Chair: Schwardt
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** Tea **
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16:00 - 18:00 Session II: Progress in Imaging (cont'd)
Chair: Bhatnagar
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** Football **
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Tue 24 Aug:


09:00 - 10:30 Session III: Direction-Dependent Effects (DDE)
Chair: Horrell
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** Coffee **
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11:00 - 12:00 Session III: DDE's (cont'd)
Chair: Dewdney
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** Lunch **
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13:30 - 15:30 Session IV: Phased arrays (feeds and stations):
Chair: Alexander
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** Tea **
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16:00 - 18:00 Session V: HPC and handling of uv-data
Chair: Hall
At the end, Duncan Hall will offer a 10 min appetizer for the discussion on processing cost that he proposes to lead on friday.

 

Wed 25 Aug:


09:00 - 10:30 Session VI: Simulations
Chair: Brouw

NB: See also the simulation discussion on thursday afternoon
At the end, Rosie Bolton will offer a 10 min appetizer for the discussion on simulations that she proposes to lead on thursday.

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** Coffee **
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11:00 - 12:00 Session VII: Pushing the envelope
Chair: Van de Hulst
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** Lunch **
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14:00 - 18:00 Trip to LOFAR site.

18:30 Conference Dinner on the ASTRON sun-deck (finishes at 21:00)

 

Thu 26 Aug:


09:00 - 10:30 Session VIII: Miscellaneous
Chair: Jeffs
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** Coffee **
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11:00 - 12:00 Session VIII: Miscellaneous (cont'd)
Chair: Voronkov
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** Lunch **
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13:30 - 14:00 Session VIII: Miscellaneous (cont'd)
chair: Willis
14:00 - 15:30 Wrapping up.


15:30 End of the official CALIM program.



15:30 ASTRON colloquium (CALIM-related): "Mob Calibration" by Smirnov, Heywood and Schwardt (with audience participation).

 

16:30 Followed by drinkies.



 

Fri 27 Aug:

The traditional unofficial program, i.e. outside the resposibility of the CALIM SOC. It consists of in-depth discussions, demonstrations and exercises, for the die-hards. People are encouraged to bring (well-formulated) problems that we might contemplate together (NB: Tim did this for the Cape Town discussion, and that worked very well).
A very effective way of describing a problem, and thus to get the most useful response from others, is by means of a PURR log. Especially if they are submitted beforehand (e.g. via a wiki, PURR logs are HTML).
We will structure the friday program during the workshop. Here are the items that are known when this program was drawn up:

Discussion topics:

Demonstrations:

Photo's

There are 2 group photo's available. Click on the photo to get the high-resulution version.