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
