==== 4th Engineering Forum Workshop (Aveiro / Portugal, 2 - 3 September 2010) ==== ===== Photonics in Radio Astronomy ===== \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:4th_ew_1st_announcement.pdf|1st Announcement}} sent on 19. May 2010 \\ \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:4th-ew_poster1.pdf|4th Eng. Forum Workshop Poster}} \\ ===== Participants ===== \\ ^No^Name^Institute^Talk^ | 1 |Ralph Spencer | The University of Manchester, UK |yes | | 2 |Arpad Szomoru| JIVE, NL | yes| | 3 |Reinhard Keller | MPIfR, DE |no | | 4 |Thomas Berenz | MPIfR, DE | yes | | 5 |Domingos Barbosa | IT, PT| | | 6 |Peter Maat | ASTRON, NL | yes| | 7 |Miguel Drummond| IT, PT | yes | | 8 |Rogerio Nogueira | IT, PT | yes | | 9 |Juan Daniel Gallego Puyol | OAN, ES | | |10| T. L. Venkatasubramani | SKA-SA, South Africa| yes | |11| Horst Wernz | Ericsson GmbH | | |12| Claudia Camacho| IT, PT| | |13| Miguel Bergano | IT, PT| | |14| Gerlinde Bedoe | Nokia Siemens Networks | yes | |15| Domingos Terra | IT, PT| | |16| Nelson Silva | IT, PT| | |17| Rosheen McCool| SPDO |yes |   ===== Programme ===== \\ All abstracts can be found in {{:na:engineering:ew:4thengworkshop_abstracts_final.pdf|4th Engineering Forum Workshop Abstracts}} \\ **Thursday, 2 September 2010** **Talks** \\ ^ Time ^ Title ^ Speaker ^ ^09.00 – 09.15 ^Registration ^^ |09.15 – 09.30 | Welcome and Introduction |R. Keller & D. Barbosa | |09.30 _ 10.15 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_spencer.pdf|Optical Fibres and e-MERLIN}} |R. Spencer | |10.20 - 10.40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_mccool.pdf|Fiber networks for the SKA}} | R. McCool |  |10.45 - 11.05 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_berenz.pdf|Broadband analogue RF transmission via optical fibre}} |T. Berenz | ^11.10 - 11.30 ^Coffee Break ^^ |11.30 - 12.00 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_matt_talk1.pdf|The LOFAR data transport system}} |P. Maat | |12.05 - 12.35 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_venkat.pdf|Optical Fibre Network for a radio astronomy receiver}} |T. L. Venkatasubramani | |12.45 - 13.10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_szomoru.pdf|EXPReS and NEXPReS: the future of European VLBI}} |A. Szomoru | ^13:00 – 14.30 ^Lunch^^ |14.30 – 15.00 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_bedoe.pdf|Optical solutions for astronomical data rates}} | G. Bedö | |15.05 – 15.35 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_drummond.pdf|Photonic true-time delay antenna beamformer based on a tunable polarization-domain interferometer}} |M. V. Drummond | |15.40 - 16.10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_maat_talk2.pdf|Analog optical signal transport and signal processing for the SKA telescope}} |P. Maat | ^16.15 – 16.40 ^Coffee Break ^^ |16:40 – 17:10 | Current state and future aspects of high data rate optical transmission |H. Wernz| |17:15 – 17:30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:4thew_barbosa.pdf|The Galactic Emission Mapping - status}} | D. Barbosa | |17:35 – 17:50 | Conclusions|R. Keller | |18.00 - 18.30 | Lab Visit || ^20.00 ^Social Dinner^^ \\ **Friday, 03 September 2010** \\ ^ Time ^ Issue^ | 09.00 - | Departure from hotel | | 09.45- 12.30 | Visit at the radio astronomy station in the Portuguese interior | | 12.35 - | Lunch at Fajão | | 14.00 - | Departure from the site | \\ ===== Group Photo: ===== {{:na:engineering:ew:4th_ew_photo_800px.jpg|Participants of the 4th Engineering Forum Workshop, Aveiro, Portugal}} \\ ===== Directions, Accomodation & Dinner Location: ===== **The Meeting will be in the Building 19** of the IT Department {{:na:engineering:ew:mapa_ua_port.pdf|of the Univeristy.}} \\ Please read the {{:na:engineering:ew:4th_ew_aveiro_travel_information.pdf|Travel Information }} to find your way to and inside Aveiro (also as {{:na:engineering:ew:4th_ew_aveiro_travel_information.doc|WORD Document}} There is also an iformation about the hotels, flights and the site.Please use the proposed hotels to find and book one for you. \\ |[[http://www.hotelmoliceiro.pt/en|Hotel Moliceiro]] | 10 rooms - 77.50 euros (BB included)| | [[http://www.meliaria.com/en|Hotel Melia]] | 30 rooms - 77 euros (single); 87 double| | [[http://www.hotelimperial.pt/|Hotel Imperial]] |availability, but on direct reservation (do not guranteed block booking, after all)| **Code** to be stated in the reservation : Radionet (Instituto de Telecomunicações)\\ \\ **A social dinner** sponsored by RadioNet-FP7 will be at 8 pm on 02. September 2010 by the lagoon, with a Portuguese Summer and night. \\ Please let us know if you have any special wishes concerning the dinner. \\ \\ ===== Organisation ===== ^LOC^SOC^ |Paulo Andre (IT) |Reinhard Keller (MPIfR) | | Domingos Barbosa (IT) |Rosheen McCool (SPDO) | |Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR) |Rogerio Nogueira (IT) | \\ ===== Registration: ===== Please fill out the [[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbi/4thFP7/| **Registration Form**]] or contact [[irottnmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]] for the logistics arrangements. In particular, you are kindly asked to provide the following details:\\ * name\\ * institute\\ * e-mail address\\ * arrival date\\ * departure date\\ * talk yes/no\\ * poster yes/no\\ * trip to Observatory yes/no\\ * vegetarian yes/no\\ * dinner yes/no\\ * hotel room needed yes/no\\ * remarks\\ We plan to organise a trip to Observatory on 03. September 2010 (9am - ??) in conjunction with the workshop. \\ Please indicate in the registration form if you would like to participate in this tour. \\ Limited **travel support** for this meeting can be given via RadioNet-FP7 on special request to [[rkeller@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Reinhard Keller]].\\ A short document explaining the travel claim procedure can be found on [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/sites/radionet-eu.org/files/cms/docs/Travel_claim_form_instructions_17june2009.pdf|RadioNet webpage]]. \\ ===== \\ For further help please contact [[irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]] (MPIfR, Bonn)