ASKAP Community Workshop

CASS will host an ASKAP Community Workshop on Wednesday Oct 24 and Thursday Oct 25, 2018, to review progress through the Early Science program and to facilitate planning of ASKAP Pilot Surveys in 2019. The workshop will include updates from CASS staff on the technical issues of relevance for planning Pilot Surveys, and updates from each of the Survey Science Teams. Aims of the meeting include discussing the technical feasibility of preliminary survey strategies, compiling a list of capabilities that the ASKAPsoft image processing pipeline will need to support and capturing any outstanding areas of ASKAP's performance that require further characterisation. This will allow CASS to prioritise development activities for the future. We also aim to identify short observations that can be made to test aspects of technical feasibility that require further verification.​ There will be ample opportunity for discussions between Survey Science Teams regarding potential commensal observations as part of the pilot surveys.

The workshop will be held in the Marsfield Lecture Theatre. The program will start at 9:30am on Oct 24th and will conclude by 4pm on Oct 25th.

To register for the meeting, please email Amanda.Gray[at]csiro.au before noon Monday Oct 22nd, including any dietary requirements.

Program

Wed 24 Oct

09:30 -- 09:40 Welcome  - John Reynolds

09:40 -- 10:00 Workshop goals and pilot plan review  - Aidan Hotan

10:00 -- 10:30 Morning Tea 

10:30 -- 12:30 Session 1.  SST presentations

  1. CRAFT (Ryan Shannon) 10+5 min

  2. EMU (Ray Norris) 10+5 min

  3. VAST (Tara Murphy) 10+5 min

  4. POSSUM (George Heald) 10+5 min

  5. FLASH (Elizabeth Mahony) 10+5 min

  6. WALLABY (Lister Staveley-Smith) 10+5 min

  7. DINGO (Martin Meyer) 10+5 min

  8. GASKAP (Naomi McClure-Griffiths) 10+5 min

12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch 

13:30 -- 15:00 Session 2. ASKAP presentations

  1. ASKAP performance measurements (Dave McConnell) 20+5 mins

  2. Imaging pipeline performance and duty cycle (Matt Whiting) 20+5 mins

  3. ASKAPsoft development and external availability (Eric Bastholm) 20+5 min

15:00 -- 15:30 Tea 

15:30 -- 17:00 Session 3. Discussion - Observatory projects, commensal opportunities, tiling strategies (Led by Dave McConnell and Ron Ekers)

17:00  onwards: Drinks, workshop dinner

 

Thur 25 Oct

09:00 -- 09:30 (Optional individual SST meetings)

09:30 -- 09:45 Summary of Day 1 and key talking points for Day 2  - Phil Edwards

09:45 -- 10:00 ASKAP communications and press releases  - Annabelle Young

10:00 -- 10:30 Morning Tea 

10:30 -- 12:30 Session 4.  Discussion - image processing and technical feasibility (Led by Emil Lenc and Karen Lee-Waddell)

12:30 -- 13:30 Lunch 

13:30 -- 15:00 Session 5.  Discussion - Workflow, operations, quality control and CASDA (Led by Aidan Hotan and Minh Huynh)

15:00 -- 15:30 Tea 

15:30 -- 16:00 Wrap-up, summary of action items  - Phil Edwards


Participants

Craig Anderson
Luke Barnes
Kate Chow
Phil Edwards
George Heald
Andrew Hopkins
Aidan Hotan
Katie Jameson
Paul Jones
Naomi McClure-Griffiths
Dave McConnell
Martin Meyer
Nickolas Pingel
Jonghwan Rhee
Chris Riseley
Larry Rudnick
Stuart Ryder
Greg Tsarevsky
Mark Walker
Robin Wark


 
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