CSIRO Logo  8th International VLBI Technology Workshop

18-20 November 2019
Sydney, Australia

Programme

Hard Copy

Monday, 18 November 2019

10:00-10:30

Morning Tea and Registration

10:30-10:40

Tasso Tzioumis

Welcome

10:40-11:00

Michael Lindqvist

EVN - Quo vadis?

11:00-11:20

Harro Verkouter

ESCAPEism

11:20-11:40

Cormac Reynolds

VLBI Developments in Australia

11:40-12:00

Tim Natusch

Warkworth New Zealand Station report

12:00-12:20

Jamie McCallum

First VGOS observations with the AuScope Array

12:00-12:20

Chet Ruszczyk

VGOS - open technical challenges

12:40-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-13:50

Weimin ZHENG

The progress of CVN

13:50-14:10

Andrea Melis

The Sardinia Radio Telescope: a general purpose facility

13:30-13:50

Helge Rottmann

BRAND - Next generation receiver for VLBI

14:30-14:50

George Heald

An Australian Low-Frequency LBA

14:50-15:20

Afternoon Tea

 

15:20-15:40

Guifre Molera Calves

VLBI Spacecraft tracking capabilities at UTAS

15:40-16:00

Shinji Horiuchi

Southern Hemisphere Bistatic Radar

16:00-17:00

Discussion



Tuesday, 19 November 2019

09:30-10:00

Alex Dunning - CSIRO

Wideband and wide field of view, the future of Parkes receivers

10:00-10:30

Grant Hampson - CSIRO

Bluering Technology Development

10:30-11:00

Morning Tea

 

11:00-11:30

Peter Kerney - Intel

Six Pillars of Innovation on the Path to Exascale

11:30-12:00

Michael Reznik - Avnet

Xilinx in Astronomy - from Antenna to Data Center

12:00-12:30

David Wilde - AARNet

Emerging Networks

12:30-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-14:00

Danny Price - Berkley

Breakthrough Listen: Data challenges and file formats

14:00-14:30

Andrew Jameson - Swinburne

DSP pipelines and backends with GPUs

14:30-15:00

Ian Morrison - Curtin

New back-end DSP developments for the MWA

15:00-15:30

Afternoon Tea

 

15:30-16:00

Yuqing Chen - CSIRO

The White Rabbit Experiment

16:00-16:30

Yabai He - Macquarie

RF over fibre

17:30

Bus Departs Marsfield site for Conference Dinner Cruise



Wednesday, 20 November 2019

09:30-09:50

Nectaria Gizani

The Hellenic Radio Telescope Thermopylae within VLBI (Remote)

09:50-10:10

Zhong Chen

Shanghai VLBI Center Operation Updates

10:10-10:30

Jaehwan Yeom

GPU Correlator Core for Extended KVN

10:30-11:00

Morning Tea

11:00-11:20

Maria Rioja

Astrometry: Where are we and where are we going?

11:20-11:40

Yulia Lopez

Search for candidate radio stars suitable to align ICRF3 to Gaia DR2

11:40-12:00

Oleg Titov

Estimation of the instantaneous Earth rotation rate with geodetic VLBI

12:00-12:20

Gabor Orosz

Maser science with the AuScope wideband receivers

12:20-13:30

Lunch

13:30-13:50

Wu Yajun

The backends of Tianma telescope

13:50-14:10

Harro Verkouter

a-VLBI with jive5ab (the sequel)

14:10-14:30

Helge Rottmann

DBBC3 backend - Current status

14:30-14:50

Mark Kettenis

Software projects at JIVE

14:50-15:00

Afternoon Tea

15:00-16:00

Colloquium

Huib van Langevelde