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MIDPREP & AAMID 2014
The next step in SKA Technology
March 31st - April 2nd, 2014
ASTRON, Dwingeloo
Programme
PROGRAMME 1st MIDPREP workshop – 31 March and 1 April
31 March:
| 12:30 | Lunch and registration | |
| 0. Management, early view on the MIDPREP project | ||
| 13:30 | Welcome and opening | |
| 13:35 | Overview of the MIDPREP | Arnold van Ardenne (MIDPREP Coordinator) |
| 13:45 | MIDPREP management; how are we faring | André van Es (MIDPREP Project Manager) |
| 1. Evolution of Mid Aperture Arrays (Chair: Arnold van Ardenne) | ||
| 14:10 | Overview MFAA and role of MIDPREP | Jan Geralt bij de Vaate (ASTRON) |
| 14:30 | Feedback from AERAP workshop into the MIDPREP workshop, science and technology | Ilse van Bemmel (ASTRON) |
| 14:50 | Pulsars searching and timing | Jason Hessels (ASTRON/UvA) |
| 15:10 | Computational Electromagnetic modelling approaches for aperture arrays | Jacki Gilmore (Stellenbosch) |
| 15:30 | Break | |
| 2. Calibration and configuration of Large Telescopes (Chair: Tobia Carozzi) | ||
| 16:00 | Element and array beam pattern measurements by an UAV system | Giuseppe Pupillo (IRA-INAF) |
| 16:20 | SKA-lo array | Eloy de Lera Acedo (University of Cambridge) |
| 16:40 | All-sky, full polarization imaging with dipole arrays | Griffin Foster (Rhodes University) |
| 17:00 | Lessons from dipole arrays: what is relevant for dense aperture arrays? | Gianni Bernardi (SKA SA & Rhodes University) |
| 17:20 | EMBRACE polarimetry | Benedetta Fiorelli (ASTRON) |
| Inaguration of 1st MeerKAT dish | David Davidson (Stellenbosch) |
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| 17:30 | Wrap up 1st day | |
| 18:00 | Drinks and informal dinner at “De Bospub” Bosrand 18, 7991PA Lhee/Dwingeloo |
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1 April:
| 2. Calibration and configuration of Large Telescopes (continued) (Chair: Gianni Bernardi) | ||
| 09:00 | Calibration models (in collaboration with Andre Young, Rob Maaskant and Marianna Ivashina) | David Davidson (Stellenbosch) |
| 09:20 | LOFAR beam calibration modeling framework (in collaboration with Andre Young, Rob Maaskant, Marianna Ivashina and David Davidson) | Tobia Carozzi (Chalmers) |
| 09:40 | Designing for Calibratibility | Stefan Wijnholds (ASTRON) |
| 3. Receivers Wide Band Pixel Feed and Aperture Array Feeds (Chair: Jan Geralt bij de Vaate) | ||
| 10:05 | Design of ultra wideband compact QRFH feeds for reflector antennas (in collaboration with Carlo Bencivenni, Theunis Beukman , Petrie Meyer and Rob Maaskant) | Marianna Ivashina (Chalmers) |
| 10:25 | Break | |
| 10:55 | Multi-modal active antennas for accurate polarimetric measurements over ultra-wide field-of-view (in collaboration with Rob Maaskant, Marianna Ivashina and Petrie Meyer) | David Prinsloo (Stellenbosch) |
| 11:15 | Array noise temperature measurements at the Parkes PAF Test-bed Facility (in collaboration with Aaron P. Chippendale, Robert A. Shaw and Stuart G. Hay) | Douglas Hayman (CSIRO) |
| 11:35 | Discussion and wrap up | Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON/Chalmers) |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
PROGRAMME AAMID CONSORTIUM MEETING
1-April |
ASTRON Auditorium |
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13.00 |
Registration |
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13.30 |
Welcome |
Michael Garrett, General Director ASTRON |
13.35 |
Goals of the meeting |
Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate |
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Introductions |
(incl.) Industrial Partners |
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Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate |
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15.00 |
Tea break |
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15.30 |
Andre van Es |
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15.50 |
Marchel Gerbers |
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16.10 |
Maria Grazia Labate |
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16.30 |
Andrew Faulkner |
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Andre Gunst |
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17.00 |
Close day1 |
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18.00 |
Dinner |
Restaurant Sijs, Heuvelenweg 29, 7991 CM Dwingeloo |
2-April |
ASTRON Auditorium |
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9.00 |
Jeff Wagg |
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9.30 |
Ilse van Bemmel |
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10.00 |
Steve Torchinsky |
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10.30 |
Coffee break |
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11.00 |
Girish Beeharry |
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11.20 |
David Zhang (Fiorelli, Beltran, Gilmore, KLAASA, Witvers) |
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12.30 |
Lunch |
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13.30 |
Front-end Design pt2 |
David Zhang |
14.00 |
Guy Kenfack (+Gauffre) |
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15.00 |
Tea break |
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15.30 |
Pieter Benthem (+vd Brink, Drost) |
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18.00 |
Close day2 |
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3-April |
ASTRON Oort Room |
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9.00 |
AAMID MT management meeting |
By invitation, MT members |
10.30 |
Coffee break |
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11.00 |
AAMID progress meeting |
By invitation, MT members+SKAO |
12.30 |
Adjourn |
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