Om onze kennis over het heelal te vergroten, verlegt ASTRON voortdurend de grenzen van de technologie in haar radiotelescopen. Deze expertise stellen wij nu ter beschikking om de innovatieve kracht van ondernemers te vergroten. Hiertoe lanceren we het Wireless Data Lab (WDL), een proeftuin waarmee ASTRON haar kennis en faciliteiten op het gebied van draadloze dataoverdracht beschikbaar stelt aan het bedrijfsleven en andere instellingen.
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A consortium led by ASTRON is developing important software components for processing the vast amounts of data that the soon-to-be largest radio telescope in the world will produce.
The low-frequency radio telescope NenuFAR will be connected to the international LOFAR telescope, operated by ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy.
The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) has been a powerhouse of science since it began operations in 1968, making more than 50 years of discoveries in radio astronomy happen. Looking forward, we will strengthen our activities in Westerbork on VLBI, GNSS, data releases of the Apertif surveys, and developing next-generation technology for our instruments.
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EXPOWER’s Ice Breaker: 'Unleashing the power of exponential functions'
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As a topic in computational mathematics, exponential analysis might sound remote, but it touches everybody’s life in many unexpected ways. For example, a substantial amount of research in signal processing is essentially dedicated to the analysis of exponential functions whose exponents are complex. The exponential functions with real exponents are used to portray relaxation, chemical reactions, radioactivity, heat transfer, fluid dynamics.
Although “exponential” is often used to mean “very fast”, making progress in exponential analysis is not so fast because of the intrinsic difficulty of the underlying mathematical problems. Together with the antenna team of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) from Stellenbosch University in South Africa and the Computational and Engineering Mathematics (CEMath) group from the University of Antwerp in Belgium, ASTRON seeks to strengthen the existing collaborations and expand its scientific network with scientists and stakeholders in the development of exponential analysis, from computational mathematics and various application domains.
The EXPOWER project started on October 1st last year. Due to the travel restrictions, the Ice Breaker Meeting was postponed until now. The meeting at ASTRON is attended by both on-site and on-line participants and marks the official kick-off of the consortium. More information is available from the project website: http://expower.eu.
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