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2nd Engineering Forum Workshop (Bonn / Germany, 16-17 November 2009)

Multi Pixel Camera Receivers


1st Announcement sent on 14. August 2009
2nd Announcement sent on 22. September 2009
3rd Announcement sent on 28. Oktober 2009


2nd Eng. Forum Workshop Poster

Programme


Monday, 16 November 2009

Talks


Time Title Speaker
08.30 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.10 Welcome and Introduction Reinhard Keller & Izabela Rottmann
09.10 – 09.40 Centimeter and (Sub)millimeter Wavelength Multi-beam Spectral Line Astronomy Karl M. Menten (MPIfR)
09.50 – 10.10 The K-Band Focal Plane Array Project Steven White (NRAO)
10.20 – 10.40 The K-Band Focal Plane Array (KFPA) Matthew Morgan (NRAO)
10.50 – 11.10 Coffee Break
11.10 – 11.30 A Monitor and Control System for the GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array Galen Watts (NRAO)
11.40 – 12.10 Phased Array Feed Receiver Development for the Australia SKA Pathfinder Russell Gough (CSIRO)
12:20 – 12:40 Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Receivers: QUIJOTE experiment Eduardo Artal (Uni. De Cantabria)
12:50 – 13:10 Development of Waveguide and Quasi-optical Devices for mm-wave multi-pixel astronomical instruments Giampaolo Pisano (University of Manchester)
13:20 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.00 The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) receivers: Coherent polarimeter arrays at 40 and 90 GHz Dorothea Samtleben (MPIfR)
15.10 – 15.30 MPIfR sub-millimetter heterodyne arrays Stefan Heyminck (MPIfR)
15.40 – 16.00 AMSTAR+, Large Format FPAs of Heterodyne Receivers at mm/sub-mm Wavelengths Frank Schäfer (MPIfR)
16.10 – 16.30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:00 APERTIF: Focal Plane Arrays for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope enabling wide-field radio astronomy Laurens Bakker (ASTRON)
17:10 – 17:30 FARADAY - A Multifeed Receiver in the 18-26.5 GHz Band Andrea Cremonini (INAF-IRA)
17:40 – 18:00 Faraday and Pharos Cooled Receivers Arrays: Cryogenic solutions for large dewars Sergio Mariotti (INAF-IRA)
18:10 – 18:40 OCRA-F: an 8-beam One Centimeter Receiver Array Michael Peel (UMAN)
18:50 – 19:20 APRICOT, the European effort for a multi pixel camera at Q-Band Reinhard Keller, Peter Wilkinson
19:20 – 19:30 Conclusions Reinhard Keller / Izabela Rottmann
20.00 Social Dinner


Posters

Title Author
Implementation of the OCRA-f receiver on the Torun 32m antenna E. Pazderski et al. (TCF)
 Survey of the Galactic Emission in Portugal Barbosa Domingos (Instituto Telecomunicaçõe)
  Bergano Miguel (Instituto Telecomunicaçõe)
Experimental characterisation of mm-wave polarimeters for multi-pixel astronomical instruments Giampaolo Pisano (University of Manchester) & Bruno Maffei
  7-beam total-power receiver at 9mm wavelength for th 100m telescope Frank Schäfer et al. (MPIfR)


Tuesday, 16 November 2009


Time Issue
09.00 - Departure from the MPIfR
09.45- 12.00  Visit at the observatory
12.10 -  Departure from Effelsberg
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch at MPIfR


Directions & Dinner Location:


Please read the Travel Information to find your way to and inside Bonn.

A social dinner sponsored by RadioNet-FP7 will be at 8 pm on 16. November 2009 in Bonn Bierhaus Machhold .
Please let us know if you have any special wishes concerning the dinner.


Participants


NoNameInstitute
1 Karl M. Menten MPIfR, Germany
2 Reinhard Keller MPIfR, Germany
3 Matthew Morgan NRAO, USA
4 Galen Watts NRAO, USA
5 Russell Gough CSIRO Australia Telescope, Australia
6 Alan Roy MPIfR, Germany
7 Norbert Aderhold MPIfR, Germany
8 Laurens Bakker ASTRON, The Netherlands
9 Thomas Berenz MPIfR, Germany
10 Andrea Cremonini INAF-IRA, Italy
11 Danielle George (Kettle) Uni Manchester, UK
12 Anne-Laure Fontana IRAM, France
13 Petri Kirves Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Finland
14 Steven White NRAO, USA
15 Juan Daniel Gallego OAN, Spain
16 Eduardo Artal Universidad de Cantabria, Spain
17 Alessandro Navarrini INAF-Cagliari Astronomy Observatory, Italy
18 Giuseppe Valente INAF-OAC, Italy
19 Felix Tercero Centro Astronomico de Yebes (OAN), Spain
20 Michael Peel University of Manchester, UK
21 Bartosz Lew Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
22 Dorothea Samtleben MPIfR, Germany
23 Domingos Barbosa Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal
24 Miguel Bergano Instituto Telecomunicações, Portugal
25 Carla Beaudet NRAO, USA
26 Peter Wilkinson University of Manchester, UK
27 Sergio Mariotti NAF-IRA, Italy
28 Karl Grypstra MPIfR, Germany
29 Bernd Klein MPIfR & HS Bonn-Rhein-Sieg, Germany
30 Stefan Heyminck MPIfR, Germany
31 Izabela Rottmann MPIfR, Germany
32 Sener Türk MPIfR, Germany
33 Friedrich Wyrowski MPIfR, Germany
34 Walter Alef MPIfR, Germany
35 Giampaolo Pisano The University of Manchester, UK
36 Vitaly Chetik  Fraunhofer FHR, Germany
37 Roman Feiler Torun Centre for Astronomy, Poland
 38 Frank Schäfer MPIfR, Germany
39 Christoph Kasemann MPIfR, Gremany
40 Eugeniusz Pazderski Torun Centre for Astronomy, Poland
41 Michael Nalbach  MPIfR, Germany
42 Karl Müller MPIfR, Gremany
43 Ute Teuber  MPIfR, Germany
44  Margot Schmitz MPIfR, Germany
45 Mikko Kotiranta  MPIfR & Technical University of Denmark
46  Nicolas Reyes University of Manchester / Universidad de Chile
47 Neil Roddis  SKA Program Development Office
48 Jean-Michel Martin Observatoire de Paris, France
49 Sonja Lenz MPIfR, Germany



Group Photo:

Participants of the 2nd Engineering Forum Workshop, Bonn, Germany

Registration:

Registration is closed

Please fill out the **Registration Form** or contact 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 Effelsberg yes/no
  • vegetarian yes/no
  • dinner yes/no
  • hotel room needed yes/no
  • remarks

We plan to organise a trip to Effelsberg 100-m antenna on 17. November 2009 (9am - 12pm) in conjunction with the workshop.
We plan to be back in Bonn at 1pm for lunch. 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 Reinhard Keller.
A short document explaining the travel claim procedure can be found on RadioNet webpage.

Accommodation:

Hotel Booking is closed!


The participants will be accommodated at the Hotels:

*Hotel Schwan web-page*
*Hotel Mozart web-page*
*Hotel Altes Treppchen web-page*

*Hotel Eden web-page*

To reserve a room please contact the hotel.

Most of the internet pages are in German. Please don't hesitate to contact Margot Schmitz for help.


Organisation

LOCSOC
Michael Nalbach (MPIfR) Peter Wilkinson (Univ. Manchester)
Margot Schmitz (MPIfR) Andrea Cremonini (IRA/INAF)
Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR) Reinhard Keller (MPIfR)



For further help please contact Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR, Bonn)


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