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Additional workshop sponsored by the RadioNet-FP7: Engineering Forum

Receivers & Array Workshop

19 - 20 September 2010, Bonn / Germany

Programme

Sunday, 19th September 2010


Chair: M. Kramer/ A. Zensus
09:00  Regstration
09:30 Opening R. Keller
09:50 Sience with large arrays P. Wilkinson
10:10 Review of the INSCAF and the other 2 KISS workshops A.C.S. Readhead
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Array Spectrographs for Radio and (Sub) Millimetre Wavelength Astronomy K. Menten
11:30 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 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 Radio Frequency Interference: Detection, correction and excision J. Kocz
16:10 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



Monday, 20th September, 2010

CHAIR: S. Church
09:00 Registration
09.30  MMICs for multi pixel receivers A. Cremonini
10:10 The IAF mHEMT-technology M. Seelmann-Eggebert
10:50 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 Characterization of low‐noise mHEMTs at cryogenic temperatures Frank Schäfer
15:10 Cryogenic Performance of NGC 35nm InP Low-Noise Amplifiers E. Bryerton
15:40 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 the Machold Brewery



Participants

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 Izabela Rottmann

Directions, Accomodation


The meeting will be held at Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie in Bonn, Germany.
More information could be found under 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)



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


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