Agenda

Monday Dec 1        
1000 Registration and coffee    
  Introduction Chair Heywood
1100 Welcome Steve Rawlings
1105 Housekeeping Ian Heywood
1110 Aims of workshop Robert Laing
  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
  Complex gain calibration Chair Wilson
1340 Field-based calibration Bill Cotton  
1400 The Minimum Ionospheric Model Jan Noordam
1420 Deep Calibration with Meq-Trees Oleg Smirnov
1440 Expectation Maximization type algorithms for calibration Sarod Yatawatta  
1455 Discussion I: Low-frequency calibration Lead Cotton
1530 Tea  
1600 Phase calibration for ALMA Bojan Nikolic
  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  
Tuesday Dec 2    
  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  
  Imaging: Deconvolution Chair Fenech
1100 Applying MCMC and nested sampling techniques to Fourier imaging Steve Gull  
1120 Scale-sensitive deconvolution: Asp-Clean and other algorithms Sanjay Bhatnagar
1135 Discussion IV: Deconvolution Lead Muxlow
1230 Lunch  
  Wide-band and wide-field imaging Chair Richards
1330 What you can already do in Classic AIPS Eric Greisen  
1350 Applications of multi-beam CLEAN Ian Stewart
1410 Tests of MFS algorithms Danielle Fenech
1425 An approach to wide-band imaging Bill Cotton  
1440 Multifrequency synthesis imaging with multi-scale deconvolution Urvashi Rau V
1500 Controlling the field-of-view using weighting functions Lynn Matthews V
  Imaging across primary beams and mosaicing Chair Richards
1515 Imaging and calibration in the presence of direction-dependent effects Sanjay Bhatnagar
1535 Tea  
1605 Squint, pointing, peeling and all that jazz Juan Uson  
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  
Wednesday Dec 3    
0900 Breakout sessions    
  Interoperability and pipelines Chair Laing
1010 Parseltongue Mark Kettenis
1030 Coffee  
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  

-- IanHeywood - 28 Nov 2008
Topic revision: r1 - 28 Nov 2008, IanHeywood
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