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CASPER Workshop 2008 Participants

Andrew Siemion

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
August 4, 5:00
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Presentation:
Fly's Eye: Herpes and CASPER

Joeri van Leeuwen

ASTRON/UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Presentation:
Pulsar hardware at ATA and LOFAR

Ismael Cognard

CNRS-Orleans, France
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Glenn Jones

Caltech
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Presentation:
CASPER development at Caltech for the GAVRT Project

Description:
I will give a status report on our use of the CASPER tools for the Goldstone Apple Valley Radio Telescope signal processing back end. Initial results will be presented.

Ian O'Dwyer

NASA/JPL
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Francois Kapp

SA SKA
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending ATA Field Trip

Presentation:
Roach hardware

Description:
Short introduction to the new ROACH hardware platform

Mitchell Mickaliger

West Virginia University
Arriving:
August 1, 21:00
Departing:
August 5, 20:00

Gregory Desvignes

LPCE / CNRS, France
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Homin Jiang

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Academia Sinica
Arriving:
August 1, 16:00
Departing:
August 8, 1:00
Attending ATA Field Trip

Liu Dongliang

The National Astronomy Observatory Chinese Academy of Sciences
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Jonathan Weintroub

Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Arriving:
August 4, 22:00
Departing:
August 6, 23:00

Rurik A. Primiani

Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Arriving:
August 1, 12:00
Departing:
August 10, 8:00

John Ford

NRAO
Arriving:
August 2, 21:00
Departing:
August 5, 23:00
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Presentation:
CICADA and GUPPI

Description:
I will discuss our prgram of development for pulsar machines and spectrometers using the CASPER hardware and software. I will discuss what worked for us, and what was difficult.

Shashank Mutha

The Ohio State University
Arriving:
July 31, 20:00
Departing:
N/A
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Terry Filiba

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Billy Mallard

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Griffin Foster

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Henry Chen

UC Berkeley / CASPER
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Oren Milgrome

Radio Astronomy Laboratory, UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Presentation:
ATA

Tim Bastian

National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Arriving:
August 1, 15:00
Departing:
August 4, 20:00

Presentation:
The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope

Description:
The Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR) is a radioheliograph designed to perform ultra-broadband imaging spectroscopy. A proposal for construction was submitted to the NSF Atmospheric Sciences division in June 2008 and, if successful, funding could begin as soon as the first quarter of 2009. I will briefly describe the science objectives and requirements and then describe the instrument requirements and design.

Mark Wagner

UC Berkeley / CASPER
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Suraj Gowda

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Michael Memmott

Fujitsu Corp.
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Rick Raffanti

Techne Instruments, Inc
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Peter McMahon

UCT
Arriving:
July 31, 18:00
Departing:
August 8, 12:00
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Jason Manley

KAT
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Dan Werthimer

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending ATA Field Trip

Presentation: CASPER Update

Fatih Aybar

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Arriving:
August 1, 14:00
Departing:
N/A

Walid Majid

JPL / Caltech
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending ATA Field Trip

ChaoTe Li

Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics Academia Sinica
Arriving:
August 1, 17:00
Departing:
August 6, 1:00

Patrice Lespagnol

Nancay Radiotelescope, France
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Robert Navarro

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Arriving:
August 1, 18:00
Departing:
August 5, 17:00

Alan Langman

MeerKAT
Arriving:
July 30, 13:00
Departing:
August 7, 19:00
Attending ATA Field Trip

Presentation: DSP for MeerKAT

Yashwant Gupta

National Centre for Radio Astrophysics
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending ATA Field Trip

Ajithkumar B Nair

NCRA, TIFR - Pune, India
Arriving:
August 1, 16:00
Departing:
August 9, 9:00
Attending ATA Field Trip
Attending URSI 2008 GA

Stephen Osborne

Stanford University
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Paul Demorest

NRAO
Arriving:
August 3, 20:00
Departing:
August 6, 22:00

Donald Backer

UC Berkeley
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Zhiwei Liu

New Jersey Institute of Technology
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Charles J. Naudet

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Tom Kuiper

JPL-Caltech
Arriving:
August 1, 20:00
Departing:
August 5, 15:00

Presentation: Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy

Description:
We envision having the equivalent of one GAVRT module (=one BEE2 + two IBOB + two IADC) at each DSN location to support a variety of radio astronomy activities. Standard configurations will be available or investigators can send their own. In addition to dedicated antenna time, we are exploring the possibility of doing "piggy-back" science during standard DSN tracks.

Eric Kooistra

ASTRON
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A
Attending ATA Field Trip

Laura Spitler

Cornell University / Arecibo Observatory
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
August 8, 13:00
Attending ATA Field Trip

Bernd Klein

Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie
Arriving:
July 31, 18:00
Departing:
August 8, 11:00
Attending ATA Field Trip

Presentation: Broadband Fast Fourier Transform Spectrometer

Gordon Hurford

UCB Space Sciences Lab
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

David Hawkins

Caltech / CARMA
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Hayden So

University of Hong Kong
Arriving:
N/A
Departing:
N/A

Presentation: The BORPH Operating System

Matthew Stevenson

Caltech
Arriving:
August 1, 20:00
Departing:
August 5, 6:00