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05-05-2014
1st MIDPREP workshop at ASTRON
| Submitter: | Truus van den Brink-Havinga |
| Description: | During the 1st week of April, two related meetings took place at ASTRON, connected with the quest for mid-frequency (500-1500 MHz) Aperture Arrays. These will be sited in the Karoo in South Africa in the second phase of the giant SKA project. The week started with the 1st MIDPREP workshop. It was followed by the first "all-hands" meeting of the SKA MFAA Consortium. Obviously, there was a considerable overlap in the participants of both meetings, most of whom are shown here. They also include representatives from the SKA Office in Manchester (UK). MIDPREP is an EU funded FP7 program enabling the exchange of knowledge and staff between two leading European research institutes and three South African partners. MIDPREP builds and develops relevant research networks through exchange of experienced and early-stage radio scientists and engineers between South Africa, Sweden and the Netherlands. Through that, MIDPREP aims at a common view on design-related aspects for radio telescopes, and to advance radio-optics, calibration, ICT, processing and technology views and (possibly "green") designs of SKA-mid. Knowledge gained by the MIDPREP project will be disseminated among a larger community by means of annual workshops, of which this one in Dwingeloo was the first. Like all eleven SKA consortia, the MFAA Consortium has a wider membership, with participants from institutes and companies all over the world. It is special in the sense that it is the only consortium that has no part in the first phase of SKA, and thus operates on a slightly different time-scale. During the week, participants were treated to unusually clement spring weather, as this picture taken at ASTRON's sun-deck shows. In the evening the group enjoyed a traditional Dutch pancake dinner at the nearby Bospub. |
| Copyright: | NL SKA Office |
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