5th Engineering Forum Workshop (Cagliari / Italy, 12 - 13 May 2011)

Receiver Gain Stability


1st Announcement sent on February 23rd, 2011.


5th Eng. Forum Workshop Poster in A0 Format.

Participants


NoNameInstitute Country
1 Sergio Mariotti INAF Italy
2 Germano Bianchi INAF IRA Italy
3 Tonino Pisanu INAF-OAC Italy
4 Alessandro Navarrini IRAM  France
5  Sener Türk MPIfR Geramny
6 Reinhard Keller  MPIfR Germany
7 Alessandro Orfei INAF-IRA Italy
8 Francesco Gaudiomonte INAF OAC Italy
9  Andrea Possenti INAF-Osservatorio di Cagliari Italy
10 Pietro Bolli INAF - OAC  Italy
11 Peter Wilkinson University of Manchester UK
12  Juan Daniel Gallego Puyol Observatorio Astronomico Nacional Spain
13 Bartosz Lew Nicolaus Copernicus University  Poland
14 Eduardo Artal Universidad de Cantabria Spain
15  Andrea Cremonini  INAF-IRA Italy
16 Giuseppe Valente  INAF OAC Italy
17  Miguel Bergano Instituto Telecomunicacoes Portugal
18 Daniel Bruch  IAF Germany
19 Petri Kirves Metsähovi Radio Observatory  Finnland
20 Patrice Serres IRAM  France
21 Ernesto Limiti University of Rome Tor Vergata Italy
22 Walter Ciccognani University of Rome Tor Vergata Italy
23 Sergio Colangeli University of Rome Tor Vergata Italy
24 Diego Palombini University of Rome Tor Vergata Italy
25 Marco Monni Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari Italy
26  Galen Watts NRAO  USA   videoconference
 27 Giampaolo Serra  Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari Italy videoconference
 28  Edward Wallack  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center USA
29 Andrea PinnaUniversità di Cagliari Italy
30 Daniele Locci Universita di Cagliari Italy
31  T. L. Venkatasubramani SKA-KAT Project South Africa videoconference
32  Roberto Frau  Università degli studi di Cagliari Italy



Programme

Abstract submission deadline on April 30th, 2011 !!!!

All abstracts will be available under 5th Engineering Forum Workshop Abstracts

Thursday, 12 May 2011

Time Issue
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch at the hotel Margerita
14.30 - Departure from hotel
15.30 - 17.30 Visit at the radio telescope site (SRT)
18.30 - Arrival to the hotel
20.00 - Dinner


Friday, 13 May 2011
Talks

Time Title Speaker
09.00 – 09.30 Registration
09.30 – 09.40 Welcome and Introduction R. Keller & T. Pisanu
09.40 - 10.20 Mechanisms of 1/f noise and Gain Instabilities in metamorphic HEMTS D. Bruch (IAF)
10.30 - 11.00  Gain Fluctuations of Cryogenic Amplifiers  J.D. Gallego Puyol (OAN)
11.10 - 11.40 Coffee break
11.40 - 12.10 Receiver chain: Typical Gain drift and instabilities and their causes S. Mariotti (INAF-IRA)
12.15 - 12.55  Precision Continuum Receivers for Astrophysical Applications  E. Wallack (NASA)
13.05 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.10 Stability of the IRAM receive P. Serres (IRAM)
15.20 - 15.50  Added Phase Noise measurement for Local Oscillator distribution systems G. Bianchi (INAF-IRA)
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17.00 Using High performance LNAs with cost-effective HEMTs in Radio-Astronomy Receivers M. Bergano (Instituto de Telecomunicações)
17.10 - 17.40  Low frequency noise measurements in direct detection radiometers E. Artal (Universidad de Cantabria)
17.50 - 18.00 Summary R. Keller & T. Pisanu

Group Photo:


Participants of the 5th Engineering Forum Workshop, Cagliari, Italy

Directions, Accomodation & Dinner Location:

The meeting is organised with Osservatorio Astronomico de Cagliari - INAF and it will be held at the Hotel Regina Margherita in Cagliari / Italy.

Please read the Travel Information to find more details baout the meeting. Please note that we have made only a block reservation at the Hotel Regina Margherita, but you are welcome to choose any other hotel.

The reservation code for Hotel Regina is 59553 (single room: 95,00€; double room 140,00€)


A social dinner sponsored by RadioNet-FP7 will be at 8 pm on May 12, 2011 at the ….
Please let us know if you have any special wishes concerning the dinner.


Organisation

LOCSOC
Pietro Bolli (OAC-INAF) Tonino Pisanu (OAC- INAF)
Marco Monni (OAC-INAF) Reinhard Keller (MPIfR)
Giuseppe Valente (OAC-INAF) A. Navarrini (IRAM)
Francesco Gaudiomonte (OAC-INAF) F. Schäfer (MPIfR)
Izabela Rottmann (MPIfR) M. Seelmann-Eggebert (FhG/IAF)


Registration:

Registration and abstract submission deadline is on April 30th, 2011 !!!!

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 SRT yes/no
  • vegetarian yes/no
  • dinner yes/no
  • hotel room needed yes/no
  • remarks

We plan to organise a trip to the Sardinien Telescope (SRT) on May 12th, 2011 (afternoon) 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)


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