MIT
Haystack Observatory 25-26
January 2010 AGENDA(sub)mm VLBI Workshop
Monday 25 January 2010 0830 Breakfast 0900 Overview of (sub)mm VLBI Shep Doeleman 0940 Present status and future plans: the European View Thomas Krichbaum 1000 Digital Backend (RDBE) Alan Hinton 1020 Digital Backend (DBBC) Walter Alef (telecon) 1040 Break 1100 Mark5C Chet Ruszczyk Burst Mode VLBI Recorders Shep Doeleman 1130 (sub)mm VLBI Correlation Roger Cappallo 1200 Discussion 1230 Lunch 1330 Observatory status reports and plans for 2010/2011 (15 min each) APEX Alan Roy (telecon) ARO/SMT Robert Freund SMA Jonathan Weintroub CARMA Geoff Bower JCMT Remo Tilanus Plateau de Bure/IRAM 30m Karl Schuster 1500 Break 1515 Observatory status reports, continued CSO Richard Chamberlin ASTE Mareki Honma LMT Pete Schloerb South Pole Dan Marrone 1615 (sub)mm VLBI Experiment Setup Shep Doeleman 1645 Break 1700 Discussion: scheduling, upgrades, time allocation, high altitude disks . . . General comments Mel Wright (telecon) 1830 Dinner Tuesday, 26 January 2010 0830 Breakfast 0900 Calibration/Data Analysis Vincent Fish 0930 WVR's and Coherence Alan Rogers Phase Correction Dave Woody 1000 Discussion of Weather/Daylight observing limits at all sites: optimal dates for (sub)mm VLBI. 1030 Break
1045 Frequency Standards for (sub)mm VLBI Shep Doeleman 1100 Phased Arrays Jonathan Weintroub 1130 ALMA Status Rich Lacasse 1145 Phased Array Discussion. 1230 Lunch 1330 Potential New (sub)mm VLBI Sites Shep Doeleman 1345 IAA Site surveys Makoto Inoue 1400 VLBI Receivers at 230GHz and 345GHz Gopal Narayanan 1430 Receiver Discussion, optimal observing windows. Quarter wave plate information Dan Marrone 1515 Break 1530 Tour of Haystack, Equipment Demos 1615 Discussion of timeline: observations over the next 3-4 years and required technical projects. 1830 Dinner
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