Speakers should aim at talks of 20-25 mins. The program then allows 5-10 mins for questions/discussion. Abstracts available here.
| Sun 3 Dec |
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| 18h00 | Informal ice-breaker at Radissson Hotel, Cape Town Waterfront
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| Mon 4 Dec |
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| 08h30 - 09h00 | Registration at SAAO
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| 09h00 - 09h30 | Welcome and logistics
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| | Session 1 - Astronomical Results (chair: Tim Cornwell)
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| 09h30 - 10h00 | Ger de Bruyn - Full polarization wide field WSRT calibration/imaging at a million to one dynamic range
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| 10h00 - 10h30 | Mike Garrett (JIVE), Emil Lenc (Swinburne), Seungyoup Chi (Kapteyn Institute/JIVE), Olaf Wucknitz (JIVE), Steve Tingay (Swinburne) et al. - New Scientific results from wide-field VLBI
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| 10h30 - 11h00 | Tea/Coffee?
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| | Session 2 - Modelling and simulation (chair: Jasper Horrell)
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| 11h00 - 11h30 | Rob Reid - Automatic Model Construction in smerf
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| 11h30 - 12h00 | Oleg Smirnov (ASTRON), Cormac Reynolds (JIVE) - An Overview Of SKA Simulations Using MeqTrees
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| 12h00 - 12h30 | Ronald Nijboer - UVBricks: Predicting Patches of Sky and applying Image Plane Effects
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| 12h30 - 13h30 | Lunch
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| | Session 3 - Ionosphere (chair: Jan Noordam)
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| 13h30 - 14h00 | Kumar Golap - Implications of brute force solution to problems facing long wavelength long baselines interferometers
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| 14h00 - 14h30 | Bill Cotton - Ionospheric Calibration and Wide Field Imaging at 1 Metre Wavelength
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| 14h30 - 15h00 | Sebastiaan van der Tol - Ionospheric calibration from an array signal processing perspective
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| 15h00 - 15h30 | Tea/Coffee?
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| | Session 4 - Plans for some pathfinder telescopes (chair: Sanjay Bhatnagar)
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| 15h30 - 16h00 | Bob Sault - Imaging and calibration of the MWA-LFD
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| 16h00 - 16h30 | Gerry R. Harp (SETI Institute) - Wide-field imaging studies at the ATA
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| 16h30 - 17h00 | Jan Noordam - LOFAR Calibration Overview
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| 18h30 - 22h00 | Workshop Dinner (Moyo at Spier)
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| Tues 5 Dec |
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| | Session 5 - Radio Frequency Interference (RFI)
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| 09h00 - 09h30 | Richard Lord - KAT RFI Environment and Preliminary Mitigation Strategies and Results
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| 09h30 - 10h00 | V. N. Pandey, N. Udaya Shankar (Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India) - Hierarchical RFI Mitigation System at the Mauritius Radio Telescope
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| 10h00 - 10h30 | Brian D. Jeffs, Karl F. Warnick and James Nagel - On Interference Cancellation with a Focal Plane Array
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| 10h30 - 11h00 | Tea/Coffee?
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| | Session 6 - Focal Plane Arrays (FPA) and multi-feed arrays (MFA)
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| 11h00 - 11h30 | Tim Cornwell - Recent progress on xNTD and NTD
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| 11h30 - 12h00 | Maxim Voronkov - Calibration and simulation strategy for multi-feed interferometers
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| 12h00 - 12h30 | Stefan Wijnholds and Wim van Cappellen - FPA's for APERTIF
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| 12h30 - 13h30 | Lunch
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| 13h30 - 14h00 | Mattieu de Villiers (SKA SA / KAT), Marianna Ivashina (ASTRON), Wim van Capellen et al. - Phased focal plane array modelling
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| | Session 7 - Advanced imaging topics
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| 14h00 - 14h30 | Rau V. Urvashi and T.J. Cornwell - Multi-scale multi-frequency synthesis imaging
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| 14h30 - 15h00 | Rob Reid and Tony Willis - Correcting wide field image errors with complex primary beams
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| 15h00 - 15h30 | Tea/Coffee?
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| 15h30 - 16h00 | Sanjay Bhatnagar - Parametrization of the Measurement Equation
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| | Session 8 - Other
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| 16h00 - 16h30 | Stefan Wijnholds - Reducing the impact of station level spatial filtering limitations
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| 16h30 - 17h00 | Sarod Yatawatta - Subspace techniques for astronomical data enhancement
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| 17h00 - 17h30 | Jan Noordam and Casey Law - Detecting transient sources
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| Wed 6 Dec |
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| 09h00 - 09h30 | Tony Willis and Oleg Smirnov - MeqTrees and Focal Plane Arrays
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| 09h30 - 10h00 | Sarod Yatawatta (Groningen/ASTRON) - Self-calibration using Shapelets and Friends
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| 10h00 - 10h30 | Daniel Mitchell (Harvard-Smithsonian) - Direction Dependent Beam Calibration for the MWA-LFD
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| 10h30 - 11h00 | Tea/Coffee?
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| 11h00 - 13h00 | Session 9 - Open questions, new techniques, SKA Cal and imaging white paper issues
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| | [Richard Schilizzi - SKA Update]
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| 13h00 - 14h00 | Wrap-up and Lunch
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| Thu 7 Dec & Fri 8 Dec |
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| | Focus Sessions - General in depth discussions
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| | Ger van Diepen - BBSelfCal overview
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| | Tim Cornwell - Sidelobes
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