Monday Dec 1 |
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1000 |
Registration and coffee |
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Introduction |
Chair Heywood |
1100 |
Welcome |
Steve Rawlings |
1105 |
Housekeeping |
Ian Heywood |
1110 |
Aims of workshop |
Robert Laing |
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Requirements of current/imminent arrays |
Chair Heywood |
1125 |
e-MERLIN and e-VLBI requirements |
Simon Garrington |
1140 |
ALMA requirements |
Robert Laing |
1155 |
EVLA requirements |
Frazer Owen |
V |
1210 |
VLBA upgrade requirements |
Craig Walker |
V |
1230 |
Introductions |
1240 |
Lunch |
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Complex gain calibration |
Chair Wilson |
1340 |
Field-based calibration |
Bill Cotton |
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1400 |
The Minimum Ionospheric Model |
Jan Noordam |
1420 |
Deep Calibration with Meq-Trees |
Oleg Smirnov |
1440 |
Expectation Maximization type algorithms for calibration |
Sarod Yatawatta |
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1455 |
Discussion I: Low-frequency calibration |
Lead Cotton |
1530 |
Tea |
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1600 |
Phase calibration for ALMA |
Bojan Nikolic |
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Polarization |
Chair Wilson |
1620 |
Polarization calibration and imaging |
Steve Myers |
V |
1640 |
Facets of instrumental polarization |
Helmut Wiesemeyer |
1700 |
Discussion II: Calibration and polarization |
Lead Garrington |
1800+ |
Close of day 1 formal sessions |
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Tuesday Dec 2 |
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Spectral line issues and Fourier phases |
Chair Fenech |
0900 |
Spectral-line calibration and imaging issues |
Anita Richards |
0915 |
Imaging lines in the presence of continuum |
Rob Beswick |
0930 |
Multi-line spectroscopy |
Francois Viallefond |
0945 |
Fourier phase analysis in radio-interferometry |
Francois Levrier |
1000 |
Discussion III: Spectral line calibration and imaging |
1030 |
Coffee |
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Imaging: Deconvolution |
Chair Fenech |
1100 |
Applying MCMC and nested sampling techniques to Fourier imaging |
Steve Gull |
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1120 |
Scale-sensitive deconvolution: Asp-Clean and other algorithms |
Sanjay Bhatnagar |
1135 |
Discussion IV: Deconvolution |
Lead Muxlow |
1230 |
Lunch |
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Wide-band and wide-field imaging |
Chair Richards |
1330 |
What you can already do in Classic AIPS |
Eric Greisen |
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1350 |
Applications of multi-beam CLEAN |
Ian Stewart |
1410 |
Tests of MFS algorithms |
Danielle Fenech |
1425 |
An approach to wide-band imaging |
Bill Cotton |
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1440 |
Multifrequency synthesis imaging with multi-scale deconvolution |
Urvashi Rau |
V |
1500 |
Controlling the field-of-view using weighting functions |
Lynn Matthews |
V |
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Imaging across primary beams and mosaicing |
Chair Richards |
1515 |
Imaging and calibration in the presence of direction-dependent effects |
Sanjay Bhatnagar |
1535 |
Tea |
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1605 |
Squint, pointing, peeling and all that jazz |
Juan Uson |
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1625 |
Efficient wide-field VLBI mapping |
Olaf Wucknitz |
1640 |
Mosaic imaging with the GMRT |
Hans-Rainer Kloeckner |
1655 |
Wide-field imaging at mm wavelengths |
Jerome Pety |
1710 |
Discussion V: Wide-band and wide-field imaging |
Lead Owen |
V |
1800+ |
Close of day 2 formal sessions |
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Wednesday Dec 3 |
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0900 |
Breakout sessions |
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Interoperability and pipelines |
Chair Laing |
1010 |
Parseltongue |
Mark Kettenis |
1030 |
Coffee |
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1100 |
Interoperability from the user's perspective |
Anita Richards |
1115 |
ALMA pipeline heuristics |
John Lightfoot |
1130 |
ALBiUS |
Huib van Langevelde |
1150 |
Discussion IV: What do we do next? |
Lead Laing |
1330 |
Close of workshop |
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