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CASPER WORKSHOP 2009 Program
Sunday, 27 September 2009
It was a great workshop! Thanks for all those who attended, presented and contributed to numerous excellent discussions. All the presentations and videos from the workshop can be found on the CASPER videos page .
17h00 Registration (about 2hrs)
Monday, 28 September 2009
08h00 Registration 08h30 Tea/Coffee
Opening Session
(chair: Alan Langman)
09h00 Minister of Science and Technology : Inaugural welcome/presentation
10h00 Dan Werthimer: CASPER Collaboration, Religion and Philosophy
11h30 Justin Jonas: Meerkat Telescope
12h00 Wallace Turner: Signal Processing Requirements for the SKA
12h30 Andrew Siemion: Exploration of Fast-Transient Phenomena with High Performance Computing
13h00 Lunch
Next generation RA Digital Backends
(chair: Dan Werthimer)
14h00 John Bunton: ASKAP Beamformer
14h30 B. Ajithkumar : "Digital backends for the GMRT upgrade"
15h00 Andy Faulkner: Aperture Array Station Processing
16h00 Matthew Bailes: A high resolution Pulsar Survey with the (mult)iBOB
16h30 Alan Langman: MeerKAT DBE: Past, Present and Future
17h00 Day End
19h00 Cocktails
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
CASPER applications
(chair: Justin Jonas)
09h00 Jason Manley: Scalable Packetised Correlators
09h30 Aaron Parsons: The PAPER Correlator: Past and Future
10h00 Terry Filiba: Packetised Astronomy Signal Processor
10h30 Laura Spitler: SERENDIP V and VI: Employing BEE2 and ROACH in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at the Arecibo Observatory
11h30 Jonathan Weintroub: Submillimeter VLBI: Imaging an Event Horizon
12h00 Rurik A. Primiani: A VLBI Phased-Array Processor for the SMA using iBOB and BEE2
12h30 John Ford: CASPER instruments at Green Bank.
13h00 Lunch
Hardware and Low Level Tools
(chair: Mike Inggs)
14h00 Francois Kapp: ROACH Development
14h30 Eric Koostra: UniBoard
15h00 Dan Werthimer: Digitisation (current and future ADCs)
16h00 Homin Jiang: 5 GSPS ADC Board Development
16h30 '' Brandon Hamilton:'' Porting BORPH to ROACH
17h00 '' Shanly Rajan:'' Automated Gateware Discovery Using Open Firmware
17h30 Day End
19h00: Advisory Board meeting
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
CASPER Instruments I
(chair: Aaron Parsons)
09h00 Matthew Bailes: Pulsar coherent dedispersion using various backends: CPSR1, CPSR2, CABB, iBOB.
09h30 Griffin Foster: Pocket Correlators
10h00 Nimish Sane: Integrating Dataflow Modeling with the CASPER Toolflow for Design and Implementation of Tunable Digital Downconverter
10h30 Y. Gupta: "A software back-end for the GMRT : towards hybrid correlators"
11h30 Ismael COGNARD: Real-Time Pulsar Timing Signal Processing on GPUs
12h00 Matthew Stevenson: A New Polarimeter for the OVRO 40m Telescope.
12h30 Jack Hickish: Beamforming and Calibration with CASPER
13h00 Lunch
CASPER instruments II
(chair: Yashwant Gupta)
14h00 Richard Armstrong: Some Design and Calibration Considerations for Dense Aperture Arrays
14h30 Danny Price: Correlator Architectures and Station-Level Calibration
15h00 Billy Mallard: Infrared Astronomy with Radio Instrumentation
16h00 Loren Swenson: Progress in fast, sensitive, high-resolution imaging utilizing frequency-multiplexed, superconducting resonators
16h30 John Bunton SPDO spectrometer
17h00 Day End
18h00 Casper Workshop Dinner
Thursday, 01 October 2009
Workshop Discussion Topic Introductions
09h00 Panel introduction (Francois): Next generation hardware platform (ROACH II + ADC)
09h25 Panel introduction (Aaron): Library and Toolflow Development
09h50 Panel introduction: (Jason): Correlators / Beamformers
10h15 Panel introduction: (Andrew S.) Pulsar machines / Transient detectors
10h40 Panel introduction: (Dan) How Best to Collaborate
11h00 Tea break
Tutorials
11h30 Walkthrough Tutorial 1: (Jason) CASPER toolflow introduction: Simulink, hardware, communication.
13h00 Lunch
14h00 Walkthrough Tutorial 2: (Andrew S) Design of a Simple Spectrometer
16h00 Walkthrough Tutorial 3: (Dave G.) The design of a "yellowblock" for ADC.
17h00 Day End
Friday, 02 October 2009
Panel Session: Discussion feedback
09h00 Panel discussion(Francois): Next generation hardware platform (ROACH II + ADC)
09h40 Panel discussion(Aaron): Library and Toolflow Development
10h20 Panel discussion(Jason): Correlators / Beamformers
11h30 Panel discussion(Andrew S.): Pulsar machines / Transient detectors
12h10 Panel discussion(Dan): How best to collaborate?
13h00 Lunch
Tutorials
14h00 Walk through Tutorial 4: (Dave George) High Resolution spectrometer.
16h00 Walk through Tutorial 5: (Griffin) Narrowband Pocket Correlator.
17h00 Day End