SKA Workshop Presentations
09:00 Review of Scientific Requirements
10:15 tea break
Institution status reports
10:45 Peter Hall, Australia
11:15 Peter Dewdney, Canada
11:45 Bo Peng, China
12:15 Lunch
13:15 Harvey Butcher, The Netherlands
13:45 Govind Swarup, India
14:15 Phil Diamond, United Kingdom
14:45 tea break
Working sessions
15:15 Working sessions 1, see schedule below
17:00 End of first day
---------------- Friday 4 August 2000 ----------------
Institution status reports
09:00 Jill Tarter, United States
09:30 Status reports discussion
09:50 tea break
Working sessions
10:20 Working sessions 2
12:00 Lunch
Technical research papers
13:30 John Dreher - The 1hT
13:50 Bryan Anderson - Aspects of Digital Signal Processing
14:10 Bart Smolders - THEA and Other Developments
14:30 Michiel van Haarlem - LOFAR; Aims and Concepts
14:50 tea break
Working sessions
15:20 Working sessions 3
17:00 End of second day
---------------- Saturday 5 August 2000 ----------------
Technical research papers
09:00 Luo Y.- Structural Analysis and Joint Design of FAST Reflector Supporting System.
09:20 Gexue Ren - On the cable-car feed support configuration for FAST
09:40 Tony Willis - Parallel and Distributed Processing with aips++
10:00 tea break
Working sessions
10:30 Working sessions 4
12:15 Lunch
Technical research papers
13:20 Andrew Parfitt - The Luneburg Lens as a SKA Element
13:40 Michael Kesteven - New Post-Correlation Interference Mitigation Techniques
14:00 Amir Leshem - Multichannel interference mitigation techniques in radio astronomy
14:20 John Bunton - SKA antenna Selection, Maximizing the Field of View
14:40 tea break
Reports from working groups
15:10 Array configuration, artificial-sky simulations
15:20 Long distance signal transmission technology
15:30 Correlator design
15:40 Station antenna and beam-forming design
15:50 Interference mitigation techniques
16:00 Site evaluation and selection
16:10 Design evaluation mechanism based on science requirements
16:20 Five-year technical planning and oversight
16:30 Discussion
17:00 End of third day
---------------- Current Poster Paper List -------------
Don Backer--- Time Domain Monitoring facility as integral part of SKA
Douglas Bock---- Configuration choices for the Allen Telescope Array
John D. Bunton---- Array configuration with uniform UV coverage
John D. Bunton---- 'Fair' UV Coverage for a Multi-Resolution Radiotelescope
John D. Bunton---- The Doublet Antenna Revisited, A Cylindrical Antenna Option
John D. Bunton---- Cancellation of GLONASS Precision Code from Cross Correlations
Steven Ellingson, John Bunton, Jon Bell.---- Cancellation of GLONASS Coarse/Acquisition Code by Parametric Modelling
Bell & Ekers---- SKA - Widely Spaced Multiple beams ?
Raymond van Dijk---- Octave Bandwidth Optical TTD Beamformer for SKA Antenna Demonstrator
A.J.Boonstra---- Interference Mitigation Strategies for Radio Astronomy: RFI research areas for SKA
A.J.Boonstra, J.D.Bregman, and A.A. Mohamoud---- LOFAR spectrum monitoring: dynamic range and spectral occupancy issues
De Vos and Noordam---- Simulations, Modelling and Calibration Issues
Govind Swarup---- Suppression of RFI from an interferometric array
Hiroshi Takeuchi---- Design of the Waseda FFT interferometer
Jill Tarter---- Trade-offs that would work particularly well for SETI
Michael I. Large and Bruce MacA Thomas.----
Single or Multiple Antenna Array Stations?
- Paper
Michael I. Large and Bruce MacA Thomas.----
Single or Multiple Antenna Array Stations?
- Poster
Bruce MacA. Thomas, Michael I Large, Mark Wieringa---- SKA: How Many Array Stations?
Bruce Veidt---- Phased array feeds for the LAR
Tony Willis---- Imaging and Dynamic Range Simulations for an SKA with Large Aperture Antennas
Guoding Li---- Main electric performance evaluation of the FAST
Brent Carlson---- "A New Correlator Architecture for the SKA"
Mark Walker---- A Catadioptric Antenna for the SKA
Jon F. Bell, Robert J Sault, Peter J Hall, Lisa Kewley---- Implementing Interference Suppression: Impacts on SKA System Design
Peter Dewdney---- The Large Adaptive Reflector
Bruce MacA Thomas---- The strategy for establishing one or more radio-quiet reserves in Western Australia