Final Program (version March 27)
DAY 1: WEDNESDAY 29 March 2017
08:50–09:00 Welcome to Country
09:00–09:10 Conference Welcome & logistics – Trott
09:10-09:20 Opening address – Vice Chancellor of Curtin University: Professor Deborah Terry
09:20-09:45 LESSONS: Randall Wayth (MWA lessons)
09:45-10:15 LESSONS: Michiel Brentjens (LOFAR lessons)
10:15-10:40 LESSONS: Steven Tremblay (LWA lessons)
10:40-11:10 MORNING TEA
Session Chair: Maria Grazia Labate
11:10-12:00 ENG: Mark Waterson (SKA low architecture, calibration framework and approach)
12:00-12:15 ENG: Andrew Williams (METADATA & lessons learnt)
12:15-12:30 ENG: Chen Wu (Data Archive lessons learned)
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
Session Chair: Jeff Wagg
13:30-14:00 INSTR: Ben McKinley (MWA primary beam determination)
14:00-14:30 INSTR: Roberto Pizzo: (LOFAR)
14:30-15:00 INSTR: Gulay Gurkan (Beams & flux scale)
15:00-15:30 AFTERNOON TEA
Session Chair: Cath Trott
15:30-16:00 INSTR: Jan Geralt bij de Vaate (LFAA developments to date)
16:00-17:00 Discussion led by Jeff Wagg: Theme, Towards SKA1_LOW – overview of SKA1_Low incorporation of lessons, future pathway etc.
19:00 (for 19:15)-23:00: DINNER AT HYATT, PERTH CITY (cost included in Registration)
DAY 2: THURSDAY 30 March 2017
Session Chair: Rachel Webster
09:00-09:30 EOR: Jonnie Pober, on behalf of Danny Jacobs (PAPER and HERA)
09:30-10:00 EOR: Jonnie Pober (EOR/low systems)
10:00-10:30 EOR: Michiel Brentjens, with Leon Koopmans (LOFAR)
10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
Session Chair: Lister Staveley-Smith
11:00-11:30 CALIB/Stefan Wijnholds (SKA-TT: Config & Calibration challenges)
11:30-12:00 CALIB/Deep: Wendy Williams (LOFAR; deep calibration)
12:00-12:20 CALIB/Deep: Andre Offringa (20mins)
12:20-12:40 INSTR/beams: Giuseppe Pupillo (20mins)
12:40-13:30 LUNCH
13:30-14:35 Discussion: David Kaplan (Transients and pulsars experience)
14:35-15:00 AFTERNOON TEA
(SKA Science Directors are invited to join the meeting)
Session Chair: Hermine Schnetler
15:00-15:45 Instrumental DR analyses during Design: Mark Cropper (Euclid Project) (remote)
15:45-17:00 Discussion/panel moderator Sarah Pearce
- The status of the Low design option(s).
- How the precursors have contributed so far.
- How the precursors can continue to contribute to risk reduction (science, validation, engineering, beam patterns… etc).
17:00 SUNDOWNER at ARRC (cost included in Registration)
DAY 3: FRIDAY 31 March 2017
Session Chair: Mark Waterson
09:00-09:30 IONOS: Maaijke Mevius (LOFAR ionospheric studies)
09:30-10:00 IONOS: Daniel Mitchell (overview of ionospheric analyses and calibration)
10:00-10:15 IONOS: Chris Jordan (overview of MRO ionospheric conditions)
10:15-10:30 IONOS: Maria Rioja (ionospheric calibration approach)
10:30-11:00 MORNING TEA
Session Chair: George Heald
11:00-11:30 POL: Emil Lenc (MWA polarisation studies)
11:30-11:50 OTHER: Natasha Hurley-Walker (Building the Global Sky Model)
11:50-12:10 OTHER: Jess Broderick (Lessons learned studying the dynamic radio sky with LOFAR)
12:10-12:30 OTHER: Laura Wolz (Imaging using compressed sensing)
12:30-13:30 LUNCH
Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Macquart
13:30-14:00 TRANS/P: Steve Ord (Pulsar observations and processing with MWA)
14:00-14:30 TRANS/P: Antonia Rowlinson (remote; pulsar and transients studies with MWA and LOFAR)
14:30-15:00 TRANS/P: Anna Bilous (Processing and calibration of LOFAR pulsar data)
15:00-15:30 AFTERNOON TEA
Session Chair: Carole Jackson
15:30-16:00 Conference summary: Ron Ekers