Meeting Program with Presentations

Preliminary Program


All sessions will be held in the Physics Building at the University of Sydney.
(see printable map: Campus Map coordinates: G5)
Session rooms:

Mon, 28 June 2010 (LT5)

Overview

09:0009:30The Murchison Wide-Field Array (Lonsdale)
09:3010:00Epoch of Reionization and the MWA (Morales)
10:0010:30Solar, Heliospheric, and Ionospheric Science with MWA (Cairns)
10:3010:45Break

321T Capabilities and Results

10:4511:00Capabilities of the 32T system (Williams)
11:0011:25Deep maps of Hydra A and the EOR fields (Williams)
11:2511:50Rudimentary Imaging at 114Mhz with X11 Data (Briggs)
11:5012:15Constructing a sky survey with the 32T (Ord)
12:1512:40Observation of the quiet and transient Sun (Oberoi)
12:4014:00Lunch

Synergies with SKAMP

14:0014:30SKAMP science objectives (SKAMP status talk on Tuesday) (Hunstead)

Science Plans and Preparations for 512T

14:3014:55 Transient detection algorithms, the MOST archival search, and implications for 32T (Bannister)
14:5515:20Analysis of 32T observations for transients (Kaplan)
15:2015:55SDO and VLA observations of the solar corona (Kasper)
15:5516:05Break
16:0516:30A drift-scan strategy to detect the EoR (Vedantham)
16:3016:55EoR Requirements for point source subtraction accuracy (Bowman)
16:5517:20Subtraction of bright foreground point sources through forward modeling (Greenhill)
17:2017:30Point source subtraction in the U-V plane (Hewitt)
17:3017:50Large-scale cosmological shocks, magnetic fields, and the warm-hot intergalatc medium (WHIM) (Brown)

Tues, 29 June 2010 (LT5)

Project Review

09:0009:10Welcome - Chair of MWA Board (Gaensler)
09:1009:30MWA Project Director(Whitney)
09:3009:50MWA Project Manager (Arcus)
09:5010:10MWA Project Engineer (Goeke)
10:1010:30MWA Project Scientist (Greenhill)
10:3010:45MWA Commissioning Engineer (Emrich)
10:4511:15Break
11:1512:00Subsystem updates
12:0012:15Array configuration and infrastructure planning (Morales)
12:1513:00 X13 Short Reports** (Briggs, *Ord, *C. Williams)
  • EoR-field observations
  • Survey results
  • Tile locations
    • ** Focusing particularly on instrument performance
13:0014:15Lunch
14:1515:00X13 Short Reports** - cont.
(Bowman, Lonsdale, Kaplan)
  • Transient observations
  • Solar imaging
  • Receiver Tsys measurements
15:0015:15RFI at MRO site (*C. Williams)

MWA-related subjects

15:1515:45 MWA Strategic Challenges and Opportunities (Boyle)
15:4516:15Break
16:1516:45AARNET update and plans (Hancock)
16:4517:05ASKAP progress (DeBoer)
17:0517:25MRO site infrastructure (Schinckel)
17:2517:45The SKAMP project - progress and plans (Cambell-Wilson)
17:45Adjourn
19:00Meeting Dinner (at Chedi's, roughly at G11 on campus map)
Additional information can be found here
* Remote presentation

Wed, 30 June 2010

09:0017:00MWA Board meeting (Western Tower board room)
AM
09:3012:30Science Council (Kasper) - LT5
12:3014:00Lunch
PM
14:0017:00EoR workshop (Bowman/Wyithe) - LT5
14:0017:00Transients (Murphy) - LT4

Thurs, 1 July 2010

AM
09:3010:00Report from the MWA Board meeting (plenary) - LT5
10:0013:00Discussions on "MWA after 512T" (invitation only) - LT5
[Meeting called by U.S. NSF to engage major MWA stakeholders in discussions on possible future directions of low-freq arrays.]
10:0013:00SHI workshop (Cairns/Oberoi) - LT4
  10:00 A Discussion on "MWA Beyond 512T" (Whitney)
  10:30 Community landscape and mid-term review process (Sadler)
  11:00 US View on Future MWA and HERA Activities (Hewitt / Lonsdale / Backer / Greenhill)
  11:30 Summary of SKA and MRO context in which MWA/post - MWA activities will take place (Boyle)
  12:00 Outcomes and developments from ISKAF 2010 (Quinn)
  12:30 General discussion (led by Gaensler)
  12:50 Recap and Summary
13:0014:00Lunch
PM
14:0017:00M&C/Using 32T/512T during rollout workshop (Morales/Goeke) - LT5
14:0017:00Other breakouts/discussions - LT4, Rm321