From: <stingay_at_email.protected>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 08:18:46 +1100 (EST)

Dear VLBI team,

Below is a draft agenda for the LBA/eVLBI workshop we are having at
Swinburne on the 24th and 25th of January. Please take note of the
suggested speakers for each of the talks and get back to me with
comments/suggestions.

Cheers, Steven

3rd Australian LBA/eVLBI workshop
Swinburne University of Technology
24 and 25 January 2006

Tuesday 24th January

10:00 - 11:00 MORNING TEA (for those already arrived)

Morning session (LBA operations)

11:00 - 11:20 LBA overview/ATNF telescope status/LBA correlator
                status/Overseas telescopes ststus
                Tasso Tzioumis

11:20 - 11:40 Hobart/Ceduna status
                John Dickey/Simon Ellingsen

11:40 - 12:00 Tidbinbilla status
                Jim Lovell

12:00 - 12:30 Science highlights
                Steven Tingay

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH

Afternoon session (LBA operations, cont.)

13:30 - 13:45 Outline of March and May VLBI sessions
                Jim Lovell

13:45 - 14:00 Operation and upgrade of disk-based recorders
                Chris Phillips

14:00 - 14:15 Recording at 1 Gbps
                Chris Phillips

14:15 - 14:30 Disk requirements for next 12 months
                Steven Tingay

14:30 - 15:00 Operation of Swinburne software correlator
                Adam Deller

15:00 - 15:30 AFTERNOON TEA

15:30 - 16:00 Migration from S2 correlator to software correlator over
                next 12 months?
                Tasso Tzioumis

16:00 - 16:30 How to operate the software correlator for VLBI?
                Steven Tingay

16:30 - 16:45 Review of action items and review of agenda for tomorrow
                Tasso Tzioumis

16:45 - 18:00 Discussion

19:00 - late DINNER AT LOCAL RESTAURANT

Wednesday 25th January

Morning session (eVLBI developments)

09:00 - 09:15 Fibre connections to ATNF antennas
                Tasso Tzioumis

09:15 - 09:30 Fibre connections to UTas antennas
                John Dickey/Simon Ellingsen
09:30 - 09:45 Connectivity to Tidbinbilla
                Jim Lovell

09:45 - 10:00 Connectivity to the rest of the world
                George McLaughlin

10:00 - 10:15 Connectivity to Swinburne
                Craig West

10:15 - 10:30 Connectivity to UWA
                Karen Haines

10:30 - 11:00 MORNING TEA

11:00 - 11:30 Connectivity - putting it all together for eVLBI
                Chris Phillips

11:30 - 12:00 Review of plans for first eVLBI demonstration
                Tasso Tzioumis

12:00 - 12:30 Open discussion of plan for first eVLBI demonstration
                Steven Tingay

12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH

Afternoon session (eVLBI developments, cont.)

13:30 - 14:00 GO/NO-GO for eVLBI demonstration in March/May 2006?
                Tasso Tzioumis

14:00 - 17:00 Construction of detailed plan and actions for first eVLBI
                demonstration (open discussion, contingent on previous
                item)
                Chris Phillips
Received on 2006-01-09 08:19:01