==== Additional workshop sponsored by the RadioNet-FP7: Engineering Forum ====

 ===== Receivers & Array Workshop =====
===== 19 - 20 September 2010, Bonn / Germany =====





===== Programme =====

**Sunday, 19th September 2010**


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| ^ Chair: M. Kramer/ A. Zensus ^^
| **09:00** | Regstration ||
| 09:30 | Opening | R. Keller |
| 09:50 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic-pwilkinson.pdf|Sience with large arrays}} | P. Wilkinson |
| 10:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:areadhead.pdf|Review of the INSCAF and the other 2 KISS workshops}} | A.C.S. Readhead |
| **10:30** | //Coffee break// ||
| 10:50 | {{:na:engineering:ew:menten-raw2010-new.pdf|Array Spectrographs for Radio and (Sub) Millimetre Wavelength Astronomy }}| K. Menten |
| 11:30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mkramer.pdf|MMICs, multi-pixel receivers and science}} | M. Kramer |
| 12:10 | Panel discussion on science with multi pixel receivers ||
| | Members: P. Wilkinson (discussion leader), M. Kramer, A.C.S. Readhead, D. Frayer, ||
| **13:10** | //Lunch// ||
| ^ Chair: P. Wilkinson ^^
| 14:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:jlamb.pdf|Optics of single beam, dual beam & array on large telescopes}} | J. Lamb |
| 14:40 | Discussion of optics ||
| **15:10** | //Coffee break// ||
| ^ Chair: P. Wilkinson ^^
| 15:30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:kocz_bonn2010.pdf|Radio Frequency Interference: Detection, correction and excision}} | J. Kocz |
| 16:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic_bklein_new.pdf|Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer – Past, Present and Future }}| B. Klein |
| 16:50 | Panel discussion on data acquisition, processing and RFI mitigation ||
| | Members: B. Klein (discussion leader), J. Kocz, A. Roy, J.-M. Martin ||
|** 18:00** | //End of day 1// ||

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**Monday, 20th September, 2010**

| ^ CHAIR: S. Church ^^
| **09:00** | //Registration// ||
| 09.30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic-cremonini-new.pdf|MMICs for multi pixel receivers}}  | A. Cremonini |
| 10:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:rws_mhemt_mse.pdf|The IAF mHEMT-technology}}  |M. Seelmann-Eggebert|
| 10:50 | {{:na:engineering:ew:receivers_and_array_workshop_2010.pdf|Recent ETHZ-Yebes Developments}} | A. Alt|
| **11:25** | //Coffee break// ||
| 11:40 | Panel discussion on low noise MMICs ||
| | Members:  R. Keller (discussion leader), A. Cremonini, M. Seelmann-Eggebert, A. Alt |
| **12:40** | //Lunch// ||
| **13:40** | //Lab visit// ||
| 14:40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic_shaeffer.pdf|Characterization of low‐noise mHEMTs at cryogenic temperatures}} | Frank Schäfer |
| 15:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic_bryerton.pdf|Cryogenic Performance of NGC 35nm InP Low-Noise Amplifiers}} | E. Bryerton |
| 15:40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mmic_gaier.pdf|Packaging Technologies for MMIC Arrays}} | T. Gaier |
| **16:20** | //Coffee break// ||
| 16:40 | Summary Panel discussion ||
| | Members: T. Readhead (discussion leader), K. Menten, T. Gaier, P. Wilkinson, K. Cleary ||
| **18:30** | //End of workshop// ||
| **20:00** | Social dinner at [[http://www.bierhaus-machold.com/|the Machold Brewery]] ||

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===== Participants =====
[[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/cgi-bin/MmicPart.cgi|Participants List]] of the Receivers & Array Workshop 2010.

===== Registration: =====

^**Registration  is closed**^\\



Please note that there is a possibility to visit the Fraunhofer Institut (IAF, Freiburg) in the conjunction of the Workshop.\\
The trip to IAF is not a part of the meeting, however MPIfR offers an organisational support for the participants.

If you plan a trip to IAF please send a message to [[irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]]
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===== Directions, Accomodation =====

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The meeting will be held at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany.\\
More information could be found under [[ http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/meetings/mmic/index.html| Travel Information]].


===== Organisation =====

^SOC ^ ^ LOC ^ ^
^ |O. Ambacher (IAF - Co-Chair^ | Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR)|
^ |S. Church (Stanford University)^ | Busaba Kramer (MPIfR)|
^ |R. Keller (MPIfR)^ | R. Keller (MPIfR)|
^ |M. Kramer (MPIfR-Chair)^ | |
^ |K.M. Menten (MPIfR)^ | |
^ |A.C.S. Readhead (Caltech - Co-Chair^ | |
^ |J.A. Zensus (MPIfR)^ | |

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For further help please contact [[irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]] (MPIfR, Bonn)