Canberra MWA Project Meeting

Program of Activities for MWA January 2009 Project Meeting

Day 1. Mon-19-Jan-2009
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0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Sun-18-Jan-2009 1700 BOS]

Opening Remarks and Management Reports:

9:00 Chair of MWA Board - Welcome (Webster)
9:10 MWA Project Director (Whitney)
9:20 MWA Project Manager (Tingay)
10:00 MWA Project Engineer (Briggs)
10:30 MWA Project Scientist (Greenhill)
10:55 info on Meeting logistics
11:00 Coffee - AITC
11:30 ASKAP Theme Leader (DeBoer)
12:00 Report on Future of 21cm arrays & US Decadal Review (Hewitt)
12:15 Results from November 2008 Tests and Observations
- Overview of data taken (Mitchell)
  - Summary of RRI analysis (Shankar)
  - Orbcomm satellite observations (Mitchell)
  - DMSP Sat (Oberoi)
- Solar Observations (Cairns/Oberoi)
  - Pulsar Observations (?if not covered elsewhere)
  - Mapping Celestial Sources (Mitchell/Greenhill)
  - Interferometer calibration tests (Mitchell)
  - Drift scan observations (Briggs)
  - RFI (Mitchell/Briggs/Kocz)
13:00 Lunch - CSO Commons
14:00 CBR- [0830 BLR - 22:00 BOS]
14:00 Results from Boolardy (continued)
14:30 Review of Workpackage by Workpackage StatusInfrastructure (Logistics/Deployment, Operations) (Tingay)
- Polyphase Filterbank (Bunton/Cappallo)
- Correlator Board (Cappallo/Bunton)15:30 Tea Break – AITC
15:45 Workpackages (continued)
17:00 drinkies - CSO Commons

Day 2. Tue-20-Jan-2009
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0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Mon-19-Jan-2009 1700 BOS]

Science Day

0900 CBR - 1700 BOS - 0330 BLR
09:00
- EOR: Frank(chairing)
- EDGES (Judd)
- CORE (Aaron)
- Skymapper High Z QSOs (Patrick)
10:00 SHI
- WP leader intro & status
- leader organized contributions
  - MWA “burst mode”: Nov 2008 Solar 32 T Observations (Lobzin/Cairns)
  - Preparing to study Solar Images:Propagation effects in Solar Corona (Oberoi)
  - Interplanetary Scintillations Database Format Current Status and Plans (Benkevitch/Oberoi)
  - Solar Heliospheric and Ionospheric Science (SHI) (Kasper)
  - MWA Solar Heliospheric and Ionospheric (SHI) Observing Strategy for 2009 (SHI Science Consortium)
  - Analysis of GPS data from the MWA site (Oberoi)
11:00 Coffee - AITC
11:30 Transients
- Overview of Transient WP Status (Shami)
- LOFAR mtg review (Tara)
- Skymapper Transients (Brad)
12:15 Galactic/Extra-Galactic
- Overview of GEG WP Status (Bryan)
13:00 Lunch - CSO Commons

(13:00-15:00 Alignment Group in AITC ConferenceRoom)

14:00 Continuation of Review of Workpackage by Workpackage Status
- Antenna Development (Cappallo/Lonsdale)
- Receiver node development (Waterson+Shankar)
- Clock (Greenhill/Cappallo)
- Data Transport (Cappallo/Shankar)
- Real Time System (Mitchell/Greenhill)
- Real-time Computer (Greenhill/Mitchell)
- Monitor and Control (AWilliams)
- System Integration (Cappallo/Briggs)
15:30 Tea Break - AITC

Continuation of Review of Workpackage by Workpackage Status

17:00 ... - CSO Commons

Day 3. Wed-20-Jan-2009
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0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Tue-19-Jan-2009 1700 BOS]
09:00 Break-out Sessions - Break for coffee at 11:00
Sess. I. EoR Data Analysis Pipeline (Hewitt organizing - draft below)
- Hewitt - data-taking plans for 512T and what we might put in archive (we need input from those who will use the data!)
- Bowman - data-taking plans for 32T
- Matejek - simulations, including a Grand Challenge
- Pindor - bright point source subtraction
- Bowman - smooth foreground and confusion-level source subtraction in image plane
- Tegmark/Liu - smooth foreground and confusion-level source subtraction in uv plane
- Geil - polarized foregound subtraction
- Morales - power spectrum fitting, including residual foregrounds
- RFI monitoring and excision?
- Shankar - GMRT-MWA Survey
- Greenhill - Sky Survey
- Bowman - timeline for development and implementation of pipeline
- Sess. II. (concurrent?) SHI/??? Need input from SHI/???
- Sess.III. (concurrent?) Transients??? etc
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Breakout Sessions - Break for tea at 15:30
- Work Package Review Continues!!!
- RTS (led by Mitchell/Greenhill)
- M&C
- RTC
- Data Transport
- System Integration
- RTS
Ses. VI. RTS morphs into work-session with hands-on demo of MAPS
Further Possibilities (please comment and add suggestions):
Sess. IV. detailed discusson of technical issues with hardware. Strong interaction with datasets.
Sess. V. Plans for next Site Visit (Key technical issues and strategies; science aspirations for exercising the 32T array; building technical experience and spreading on-site expertise throughout the project)

Day 4. Thu-22-Jan-2009
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0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Wed-21-Jan-2009 1700 BOS]
09:00 Finale for EoR Pipeline review.. led by Judd Bowman
09:++ Breakout sessions - Break for coffee at 1100, lunch at 1300, tea at 1530
Convened by Project Manager to review expectations for the day
13:00 Lunch
14:00 RSAA All-School Colloquium - Lincoln Greenhill, MWA Project Scientist
After Colloquium: Sess. VIII, IX, X as required..
16:30 Reconvene to debrief
17:00 Adjourn
19:00 Conference Dinner - Vivaldi's

Day 5. Fri-23-Jan-2009
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0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Thu-22-Jan-2009 1700 BOS]
11:00 Coffee - AITC
12:30 LUNCH- Stromlo Payday Barbeque - CSO Courtyard
15:30 Tea - AITC
Parallel Sessions:
- MWA Board - all day - AITC Conference Room
- Technical and/or Scientific Breakout Sessions as required
16:00 Wrap-up & Farewell