This three-day course will be hosted by the FAST group and held at the NAOC - Beijing, China on March 28th to the 31st 2011.

Program

CASPER workshop schedule

Monday, 28 March 2011

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Location: A135

9:00AM - 10:00AM  CASPER overview 10:00AM - 11:00AM  SETI and Dan's work

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Location: A135

2:00PM - 5:00PM   Discussion on CASPER and various projects

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Location: 5th floor, building B

1:30PM -  2:00PM  Practical introduction to CASPER tools and instrument design 1:30PM -  2:30PM  Tutorial 1, Introduction to Simulink 2:30PM -  3:00PM  Break 3:00PM -  4:30PM  Hands-on labs and Q&A

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

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Location: 5th floor, building B

9:30AM - 10:00AM  Radio instrumentation and Ethernet networks - UDP packets, multicast and switching 9:30AM - 10:30AM  Tutorial 2, 10GbE Interface 10:30AM - 11:00AM  Break 11:00AM - 12:00AM  Hands-on labs and Q&A 12:00AM -  1:00PM  Lunch 2:00PM -  2:15PM  All about spectrometers and transient instrumentation - science 2:15PM -  2:30PM  All about spectrometers - digital design 2:00PM -  3:00PM  Tutorial 3, Wideband Spectrometer 3:00PM -  3:30PM  Break 3:30PM -  4:30PM  Tutorial 3, continue

Wednesday, 30 March 2011

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Location: 5th floor, building B

9:30AM - 10:30AM  Tutorial 3, Hands-on labs 10:30AM - 11:00AM  Break 11:00AM - 12:00AM  Tutorial 3, continue 12:00AM -  1:00PM  Lunch 2:00PM -  3:00PM  Tutorial 5: Wideband Zooming Spectrometer 3:00PM -  3:30PM  Break 3:30PM -  4:30PM  Tutorial 4: Wideband Pocket Correlator 

Location: TBD

6:00PM - 9:00PM workshop Banquet

Thursday, 31 March 2011

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Location: 5th floor, building B

9:30AM - 11:30AM  Discussion