Name: SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Transients
Start: 2014-01-27T09:15:00+00:00
End: 2014-01-28T18:00:00+00:00
Location: SKA Office

SKA Science Assessment Workshop - Transients

from Monday, 27 January 2014 (09:15) to Tuesday, 28 January 2014 (18:00)

Monday, 27 January 2014
09:30 Welcome - Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)
Welcome
- Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
10:30 Discussion
Discussion
10:30 - 10:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

10:45 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
10:45 - 11:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
11:00 Headline science and top-level science requirements - Rob Fender (Oxford)
Headline science and top-level science requirements
- Rob Fender (Oxford)
11:00 - 11:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
11:45 Discussion
Discussion
11:45 - 12:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
12:00 Specifics of coherent transients: fast search and respond etc - J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)
Specifics of coherent transients: fast search and respond etc
- J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)
12:00 - 12:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
12:45 Lunch
Lunch
12:45 - 13:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
13:30 The case for VLBI for transients - Zsolt Paragi (JIVE) Adam Deller (ASTRON)
The case for VLBI for transients
- Zsolt Paragi (JIVE)
- Adam Deller (ASTRON)
13:30 - 14:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
14:00 Discussion
Discussion
14:00 - 14:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
14:15 The Baseline Design - Peter Dewdney (SKA Organisation) Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)
The Baseline Design
- Peter Dewdney (SKA Organisation)
- Robert Braun (SKA Organisation)
14:15 - 15:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
15:30 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
15:45 Specifics of synchrotron transients: multiwavelength objects etc - Rob Fender (Oxford)
Specifics of synchrotron transients: multiwavelength objects etc
- Rob Fender (Oxford)
15:45 - 16:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom See first slide of following talk (AMI) for key slide. This talk was not presented due to time crunch.
16:00 Real-time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from AMI - Rob Fender (Oxford)
Real-time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from AMI
- Rob Fender (Oxford)
16:00 - 16:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
16:30 Real-time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from KAT - Richard Armstrong (UCT/SKA)
Real-time/commensal transient searches and transient spigots - Examples from KAT
- Richard Armstrong (UCT/SKA)
16:30 - 17:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
17:00 Discussion
Discussion
17:00 - 17:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

19:15

19:15 - 21:30
Tuesday, 28 January 2014
09:00 ARTEMIS (Advanced Radio Transients Event Monitor and Identification System) - Aris Karastergiou (Oxford)
ARTEMIS (Advanced Radio Transients Event Monitor and Identification System)
- Aris Karastergiou (Oxford)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
09:30 Discussion
Discussion
09:30 - 09:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
09:45 Transient Buffer Boards - Cath Trott (Curtin)
Transient Buffer Boards
- Cath Trott (Curtin)
09:45 - 10:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom Local Presenters: Jason Hessels
10:00 Software lessons learnt from LOFAR - John Swinbank (Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek")
Software lessons learnt from LOFAR
- John Swinbank (Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek")
10:00 - 10:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
10:15 Discussion
Discussion
10:15 - 10:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

10:30 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
10:30 - 10:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

10:45

10:45 - 11:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

11:30 Discussion
Discussion
11:30 - 11:45
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

11:45

11:45 - 12:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

13:30

13:30 - 14:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

14:15 Discussion
Discussion
14:15 - 14:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
14:30 Summary of proposed Baseline design change requests - J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)
Summary of proposed Baseline design change requests
- J.-P. Macquart (Curtin)
14:30 - 15:15
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom
15:15 Discussion
Discussion
15:15 - 15:30
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom

15:30 Tea/Coffee
Tea/Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Steve Rawlings Boardroom