2nd MIDPREP workshop
"Progress toward the SKA"
April 20, 2015
University of Aveiro/IT
Aveiro, Portugal
Programme
PROGRAMME 2nd MIDPREP workshop – 20 April, 2015 – University of Aveiro/IT – Aveiro, Portugal
“Progress toward the SKA”
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 0. Management of the MIDPREP project | ||
| 09:00 | Welcome and opening | Domingos Barbosa (IT & ENGAGE SKA) |
| 09:05 | Overview of the MIDPREP programme & management | Arnold van Ardenne (MIDPREP Coordinator) |
| 1. Receivers Wide Band Single Pixel Feed and Phased Array Feeds (Chair: Bhushan Billade) | ||
| 09:20 | Wide Band Feeds for the SKA | Miroslav Pantaleev (Chalmers) |
| 09:40 | Views on Modelling | Tobia Carozzi (Chalmers) |
| 10:00 | New approaches to Radio Astronomy Receiver Design | Isak Theron (EMSS) |
| 10:20 | Early results and developments of APERTIF | Wim van Cappellen (ASTRON |
| 10:40 | Break | |
| 1. Receivers Wide Band Single Pixel Feed and Phased Array Feeds (contd) (Chair: David Davidson) | ||
| 11:10 | New trends regarding RoF and beam forming for thousands of elements | Miguel Drummond (IT) |
| 11:30 | Multi-Mode Antennas for Hemispherical Field-of-View Coverage | David Prinsloo (Stellenbosch University) |
| 2. Calibration and Simulation of Large Telescopes (Chair: Tobia Carozzi) | ||
| 11:50 | Calibrating large telescopes | Oleg Smirnov (Rhodes University) |
| 12:10 | SKA-LOW | Eloy de Lera Acedo (University of Cambridge) |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | Design for Calibratibility | Stefan Wijnholds (ASTRON |
| 13:50 | A new suite of state-of-the-art simulations of HI line emission | Ed Elson (University of Cape Town) |
| 3. Evolution of Mid Aperture Arrays (Chair: Steve Torchinsky) | ||
| 14:10 | Overview MFAA and role of MIDPREP | Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate (ASTRON) |
| 14:40 | Wide FoV SKA science | Jeff Wagg (SKA Office) |
| 15:10 | EMBRACE results | Steve Torchinsky (Observatoire de Paris) |
| 15:40 | Break | . |
| 3. Evolution of Mid Aperture Arrays (continued) (Chair: Jan Geralt bij de Vaate) | ||
| 16:10 | Progress on Dense Dipole Arrays | David Davidson (Stellenbosch University) |
| 16:30 | ENGAGE SKA - MFAA | Dalmiro Maia (IT & ENGAGE SKA) |
| 16:50 | Update MITRA and MFAA in Mauritius | Girish Kumar Beeharry (University of Mauritius) |
| 17:10 | MFAA’s in Africa, discussion and wrap up | Arnold van Ardenne (ASTRON/Chalmers) |
| 18:00 | End of workshop | |
| 18:30 | Departure for dinner | |