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4th Engineering Forum Workshop (Aveiro / Portugal, 2 - 3 September 2010)

Photonics in Radio Astronomy


1st Announcement sent on 19. May 2010


4th Eng. Forum Workshop Poster

Participants


NoNameInstituteTalk
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 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 Optical Fibres and e-MERLIN R. Spencer
10.20 - 10.40 Fiber networks for the SKA  R. McCool
10.45 - 11.05 Broadband analogue RF transmission via optical fibre T. Berenz
11.10 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 12.00 The LOFAR data transport system P. Maat
12.05 - 12.35 Optical Fibre Network for a radio astronomy receiver T. L. Venkatasubramani
12.45 - 13.10  EXPReS and NEXPReS: the future of European VLBI A. Szomoru
13:00 – 14.30 Lunch
14.30 – 15.00 Optical solutions for astronomical data rates  G. Bedö
15.05 – 15.35 Photonic true-time delay antenna beamformer based on a tunable polarization-domain interferometer M. V. Drummond
15.40 - 16.10 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 The Galactic Emission Mapping - status D. Barbosa
17:35 – 17:50 ConclusionsR. 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:

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 of the Univeristy.


Please read the Travel Information to find your way to and inside Aveiro (also as 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.


Hotel Moliceiro 10 rooms - 77.50 euros (BB included)
Hotel Melia 30 rooms - 77 euros (single); 87 double
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

LOCSOC
Paulo Andre (IT) Reinhard Keller (MPIfR)
Domingos Barbosa (IT) Rosheen McCool (SPDO)
Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR) Rogerio Nogueira (IT)


Registration:

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:

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 Reinhard Keller.
A short document explaining the travel claim procedure can be found on RadioNet webpage.


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