==== 2nd Engineering Forum Workshop (Bonn / Germany, 16-17 November 2009) ==== ===== Multi Pixel Camera Receivers ===== \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:1st_call_for_2nd_engineering_meeting_fp7.pdf|1st Announcement}} sent on 14. August 2009 \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:2nd_ew_2nd_announcement.pdf|2nd Announcement}} sent on 22. September 2009 \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:2nd_ew_3rd_announcement.pdf|3rd Announcement}} sent on 28. Oktober 2009 \\ {{:na:engineering:ew:2nd_ew_poster2.pdf|2nd Eng. Forum Workshop Poster}} \\ ===== Programme ===== \\ **Monday, 16 November 2009** **Talks** \\ ^ Time ^ Title ^ Speaker ^ ^08.30 – 09.00 | Registration | | |09.00 – 09.10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:rottmann_16112009_1.pdf|Welcome and Introduction}} | Reinhard Keller & Izabela Rottmann | |09.10 – 09.40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:menten_final.pdf|Centimeter and (Sub)millimeter Wavelength Multi-beam Spectral Line Astronomy}}| Karl M. Menten (MPIfR) | |09.50 – 10.10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:white_final.pdf|The K-Band Focal Plane Array Project}} | Steven White (NRAO) | |10.20 – 10.40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:morgan_final.pdf|The K-Band Focal Plane Array (KFPA)}} | Matthew Morgan (NRAO) | ^10.50 – 11.10 ^ Coffee Break^^ |11.10 – 11.30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:watts_final.pdf|A Monitor and Control System for the GBT K-Band Focal Plane Array}} | Galen Watts (NRAO) | |11.40 – 12.10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:gough_final.pdf|Phased Array Feed Receiver Development for the Australia SKA Pathfinder}} | Russell Gough (CSIRO) | |12:20 – 12:40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:artal_final.pdf|Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Receivers: QUIJOTE experiment}} |Eduardo Artal (Uni. De Cantabria) | |12:50 – 13:10 | {{:na:engineering:ew:pisano_final.pdf|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 | {{:na:engineering:ew:samtleben_final.pdf|The Q/U Imaging ExperimenT (QUIET) receivers: Coherent polarimeter arrays at 40 and 90 GHz}} | Dorothea Samtleben (MPIfR) | |15.10 – 15.30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:heyminck_final.pdf|MPIfR sub-millimetter heterodyne arrays}} | Stefan Heyminck (MPIfR) | |15.40 – 16.00 | {{:na:engineering:ew:schaefer_ew2_final.pdf|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 | {{:na:engineering:ew:bakker_ew2_final.pdf|APERTIF: Focal Plane Arrays for the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope enabling wide-field radio astronomy }}| Laurens Bakker (ASTRON) | |17:10 – 17:30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:cremonini_ew2_final.pdf|FARADAY - A Multifeed Receiver in the 18-26.5 GHz Band}} | Andrea Cremonini (INAF-IRA) | |17:40 – 18:00 | {{:na:engineering:ew:mariotti_final_ew2.pdf|Faraday and Pharos Cooled Receivers Arrays: Cryogenic solutions for large dewars}} | Sergio Mariotti (INAF-IRA) | |18:10 – 18:40 | {{:na:engineering:ew:peel_final.pdf|OCRA-F: an 8-beam One Centimeter Receiver Array}} | Michael Peel (UMAN) | |18:50 – 19:20 | {{:na:engineering:ew:keller_wilkinson_final.pdf|APRICOT, the European effort for a multi pixel camera at Q-Band}} | Reinhard Keller, Peter Wilkinson | |19:20 – 19:30 | {{:na:engineering:ew:rottmann_16112009_2.pdf|Conclusions }}| Reinhard Keller / Izabela Rottmann | ^20.00 ^ Social Dinner^^ \\ **Posters** \\ ^ Title ^ Author^ | {{:na:engineering:ew:pazderski_poster.pdf|Implementation of the OCRA-f receiver on the Torun 32m antenna}} | //E. Pazderski et al.// (TCF) | | {{:na:engineering:ew:barbosa_poster.pdf|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 | |  {{:na:engineering:ew:poster_schaefer.pdf|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 {{http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbi/Travelinformation/| 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 [[http://www.bierhaus-machold.com/|Bierhaus Machhold ]]. \\ Please let us know if you have any special wishes concerning the dinner. \\ \\ ===== Participants ===== \\ ^No^Name^Institute^ | 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: ===== {{:na:engineering:ew:2nd_ew_photo2.jpg|Participants of the 2nd Engineering Forum Workshop, Bonn, Germany}} \\ ===== Registration: ===== ^**Registration is closed**^\\ Please fill out the [[http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/div/vlbi/2ndFP7/| **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 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 [[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]]. \\ \\ ===== Accommodation: ===== ^**Hotel Booking is closed!**^ \\ The participants will be accommodated at the Hotels:\\ [[http://www.rma-hotels.de/de/bonn/hotel_schwan.html|*Hotel Schwan web-page*]] \\ [[http://www.hotel-mozart-bonn.com/| *Hotel Mozart web-page*]] \\ [[http://www.treppchen.de/index2.htm| *Hotel Altes Treppchen web-page*]] \\ \\ [[http://www.eden-bonn.de/Hotel_Eden_Welcome.html| *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 {{mschmitz@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de| Margot Schmitz}} for help.//\\ \\ ===== Organisation ===== ^LOC^SOC^ |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 [[irottmann@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de|Izabela Rottmann]] (MPIfR, Bonn)