EVLA Planning Workshop:
Defining the Second Phase
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The first day focused on background material, presenting the project as currently conceived and various options under consideration, and discussing the connections between the EVLA and other (current or proposed) radio telescopes. The presentations were relatively brief, as we had a fair amount on the Web ahead of time; the idea was to leave lots of room for discussion and other ideas.
On Friday we split up into various scientific working groups to discuss the list of questions we hoped this workshop would answer (or at least seriously address). Each working group produced a written set of answers, available on the same Web site.
The groups presented their reports on Saturday, and the workshop concluded with an attempt at summarizing the consensus on each of the discussion issues.
| Thursday, August 23rd, 2001: Background Material | ||
| 08:00-08:30 | Continental Breakfast
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| 08:30-08:45 | M. Rupen P. Vanden Bout |
Introduction |
| 08:45-10:05
Chair |
Session I.
B. Butler |
Overview of the Project |
| [15+10] | P. Napier | Overview of Phase I |
| [20+10] | R. Perley | Phase II: baseline plan and
constraints (.PPT [160K]) (gzip'd PDF [1.7M]) |
| [20+10] | M. Rupen | Phase II: Scientific Overview (.PPT [1.3M]) (gzip'd PDF [1.7M]; missing slide 10, which won't print for some reason) |
| 10:10-12:05
Chair |
Session II.
G. Taylor |
New Mexico Array Topics |
| [20+10] | R. Perley | Station configuration (.PPT [534K]) (gzip'd PDF [2.5M]) |
| 10:40-10:55 | Coffee Break
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| [15] | B. Clark | Nature of stations: overview |
| [15] | S. Weinreb | Cost equation (.PDF [455K]) |
| [10] | B. Carlson | Correlator Issues (.PPT [422K]) (gzip'd PDF [302K]) |
| [0+30] | General discussion | |
| 12:05-13:05 | Box Lunch
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| 13:05-13:45 Chair |
Session III. G. van Moorsel |
E Configuration Topics |
| [25+15] | F. Owen | E configuration issues |
| 13:45-14:25 Chair |
Session IV. G. van Moorsel |
Low Frequency Topics |
| [25+15] | R. Perley | Technical issues (.PPT [128K]) (gzip'd PDF [360K]) |
| 14:25-15:00 Chair |
Session V. G. van Moorsel |
VLBA Integration |
| [20+10] | C. Walker |
VLBA
integration issues (.PPT [1.4M]) |
| 14:55-15:25 | Coffee Break
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| 15:25-17:00 Chair |
Session VI. V. Dhawan |
The EVLA in Context |
| [10+ 5] | P. Jewell | Green Bank Telescope (.PPT [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]) (gzip'd postscript [[an error occurred while processing this directive]]) |
| [15+ 5] | J. Lazio | LOFAR (.PPT [4.8M]) (gzip'd postscript [8.2M]) |
| [15+ 5] | A.P. Rao/J. Chengalur | GMRT |
| [15+ 5] | D. Bock | Allen Telescope Array (.PPT [1.2M]) (gzip'd postscript [8.9M]) |
| 18:00-21:00 | Workshop Dinner (Macey Center) |
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| Friday, August 24th, 2001: Context & Discussion Groups | ||
| 08:00-08:30 | Continental Breakfast
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| 08:30-09:50 Chair |
Session VI. (cont'd.) J. Ulvestad |
The EVLA in Context |
| [15+ 5] | Michael Rupen (for Phil Diamond) |
e-MERLIN (.PPT [2.1M]) (gzip'd postscript [5.8M]) |
| [15+ 5] | J. Cordes | Square Kilometer Array (.PPT [1.0M]) (gzip'd PDF [1.0M]) |
| [10] | K. Kellermann | From EVLA to SKA: One Approach |
| [ 0+30] | General discussion | |
| 09:50-10:20 M. Rupen |
Summary of discussion group questions | |
| 10:20-10:40 | Coffee Break
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| 10:40-12:00 | Working group
discussions
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| 12:00-13:00 | Box lunch
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| 13:00-15:30 | Working group
discussions (cont'd.)
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| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break
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| 15:45-17:00 | Working group
discussions (cont'd.)
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| Saturday, August 25th, 2001: Group Reports and Summary | ||
| 08:00-08:30 | Continental Breakfast
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| 08:30-12:00 | Reports
from Discussion Groups (20+10mins. each) |
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| 12:00-13:30 | Box Lunch
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| 13:30-14:30 R. Perley |
Overview and Summary of
Results [30+30] |
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| 14:30-17:00 R. Perley |
Discussion of Strategy | |
| 15:30-15:45 | Coffee Break
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