Name: CALIM 2011
Start: 2011-07-25T07:30:00+00:00
End: 2011-07-29T13:30:00+00:00
Location: SPDO, University of Manchester

CALIM 2011

from Monday, 25 July 2011 (07:30) to Friday, 29 July 2011 (13:30)

Monday, 25 July 2011

07:30 Registration: Including tea and coffee
Registration: Including tea and coffee
07:30 - 08:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:00 Welcome - Kobus Cloete on behalf of Richard Schilizzi
Welcome
- Kobus Cloete on behalf of Richard Schilizzi
08:00 - 08:05
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:05 Logistics - Duncan Hall
Logistics
- Duncan Hall
08:05 - 08:10
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:10
08:10 - 12:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

08:10 Introductions - Tim Cornwell (CSIRO/CASS)

08:15 LOFAR Status Update - Ronald Nijboer (ASTRON)

08:50 Status of ASKAP - Tim Cornwell (CSIRO/CASS)

09:30 MeerKAT update - Ludwig Schwardt (SKA ZA)

10:35 MWA update - Daniel Mitchell (SAO)

11:15 EVLA status and update - Sanjay Bhatnagar (NRAO)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
13:00
13:00 - 16:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

13:00 Beam quality and stability of PAF systems - Stefan Wijnholds (ASTRON)

13:40 Main beam representation in non-regular arrays - Christophe Craeye (Université Catholique Louvain)

14:40 Fundamental Limit of Polarimetric Calibratability - Tobia Carozzi (Onsala Space Observatory, Chalmers University, Sweden)

15:20 Calibration pipelines for ASKAP - Maxim Voronkov (CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science)
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

07:30 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
07:30 - 08:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:00
08:00 - 11:40
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

08:00 Single dish polarization calibration results using KAT-7 - Mattieu de Villiers (SKA SA)

08:40 Fringe Fitting in Casa - Stephen Bourke (JIVE)

09:20 Next-generation calibration: John Q. Astronomer's perspective - Heywood Ian (University of Oxford)

10:20 Solving for primary beams, pointing errors, and The Westerbork Wobble - Oleg Smirnov (ASTRON)

11:00 Complex Factor Analysis - Ahmad Mouri Sardarabadi (Delft University of Technology)
11:40 Lunch
Lunch
11:40 - 12:40
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
12:40
12:40 - 15:50
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

12:40 LOFAR Imaging Pipeline Status - George Heald (ASTRON)

13:20 Rotation Measure Synthesis - Anna Scaife (DIAS)

14:30 Algorithm scaling for ASKAP and SKA - Tim Cornwell (CSIRO/CASS)

15:10 Recent imaging results with wide-band EVLA data, and lessons learnt so far - Urvashi Rau (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

07:30 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
07:30 - 08:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:00
08:00 - 11:10
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

08:00 Warped snapshot imaging for low-frequency dipole arrays - Daniel Mitchell (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

08:40 Fast W-Projection Gridding on GPUs - John Romein (Stichting ASTRON)

09:50 Imaging using the GPU - Vamsi Krishna Veligatla (Kapteyn Institute (University Of Groningen))

10:30 Deep observations with LOFAR - Panos Labropoulos (ASTRON & Kapteyn Institute)
11:10 Lunch
Lunch
11:10 - 12:30
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225

12:30

12:30 - 16:30
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Thursday, 28 July 2011

07:30 Tea and Coffee
Tea and Coffee
07:30 - 08:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
08:00
08:00 - 11:30
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

08:00 Looking beyond the LOFAR central processor. - Chris Broekema (ASTRON)

08:40 GALFACTS - dealing with large data volumes - Samuel George (MRAO)

09:50 Status of the SDMv2 - Francois Viallefond (OBSPM/CNRS)

10:30 How small can you get? - Anita Richards (UK ARC Node, JBCA)

11:00 ALMA user software tools - other than CASA - Anita Richards (UK ARC Node, JBCA) Ian Heywood (University of Oxford)
11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
12:30
12:30 - 16:00
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Contributions

12:30 "More research required": a dialogue - Duncan Hall (SPDO)

14:30 Lowering the Threshold - Jan Noordam (ASTRON)
16:00 Workshop Summary - Anna Scaife (DIAS)
Workshop Summary
- Anna Scaife (DIAS)
16:00 - 16:20
Room: Lovell seminar room 3.225
Friday, 29 July 2011