CALIM 2010: The 5th SKA Workshop

on Calibration and Imaging


22 - 27 August 2010, Dwingeloo (NL)

The CALIM series of workshops focuses on progress in algorithms, software and computing aimed at solving the challenges in calibration and imaging requirements of the SKA, its pathfinders and other major new radio telescopes such as EVLA, ALMA, LOFAR, ASKAP, MeerKAT, MWA, LWA, and eMERLIN. We invite presentations (Oral or Poster) on the following topics:

  • Wide field imaging
  • Wide band imaging
  • Aperture arrays
  • Phased array feeds
  • Calibration and Imaging algorithms
  • Compressed sensing
  • Ionospheric calibration
  • Simulation of observations
  • Parallelization of algorithms
  • Pipelined processing
  • Computational costs of algorithms
  • Use of supercomputers, accelerators, and special purpose hardware
  • Other topics relating to calibration and imaging issues for SKA and other major new radio telescopes such as EVLA, ALMA, LOFAR, ASKAP, MeerKAT, MWA, LWA and eMERLIN.

In addition, presentations and discussions related to the required computing, use of specialized hardware for computing etc. are also highly encouraged.

 

Background

The previous four CALIM workshops were:

  • CALIM 2005, hosted by ASTRON at Dwingeloo.
  • CALIM 2006, hosted by the SKA SA and South African Astronomical Observatory at Cape Town.
  • CALIM 2008, hosted by CSIRO and UWA at Perth.
  • CALIM 2009, hosted by NRAO at Socorro.