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LBA Ops and technical/eVLBI meeting, 8-9 Feb 2011, NZ
Monday 7 Feb 2011
6:00-8:00 pm - Informal get together at the Scenic hotel, hosted by Sergei.
Tuesday 8 Feb 2011 Venue WF510
8:45 - 9:00 Arrivals at AUT
9:00 - 9:10 Welcomes
- Tasso on behalf of LBA and as convener of meeting
- Sergei from AUT (or other AUT person?)
9:10 - 9:40 David Jauncey “The charm of VLBI” -special presentation
9:40 -10:00 Sergei Gulyaev “VLBI in NZ?”
10:00 - 10:15 MOU signing
10:15-10:45 Coffee/tea
10:45 - 12:30
- LBA proposals and block scheduling (Phil Edwards) - 30 mins
- call for proposals
- proposal stats
- OPAL
- future proposals – “big” projects?
- block scheduling - “large” blocks vs “small” blocks
- * issues
LBA schedules (Cormac Reynolds) - 30 mins
- SCHED
- new version(s)
- LBA specifics
- CAL scans
- future
- Wiki
- issues…
- discussion
Observing issues (Tasso/Chris) - 45 mins
- Telescope reports
- Hart (Janathan)
- CASS (ATCA, Mopra, Parkes, Tid)
- UTas (Hobart and Ceduna)
- Ww
- ASKAP
- other issues
- Data transport
- ARCS
- Disks
- others (Hart?)
- Mk5 observations
- data handling
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
- Correlation (Cormac/Hayley) - 30 mins
- DIFX changes -summary
- Data transport issues
- Correlation scripts
- Pipeline and data checking
- Data distribution
- Online archive (ATOA?)
- Towards blind clock searching
- Calibration (Cormac/ Hayley) - 30 mins
- issues
- improvements
- upcoming changes
Review of Actions and Open discussion (Tasso) - 30 mins
- Actions from last year
- New actions from the day
- general discussion
- VLBA issues/impact
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 17:00 Transport to Warkworth
17:00 - 18:00 Antenna tour
18:00 - 18:30 eVLBI demo
18:30 - 20:30 BBQ dinner at telescope
20:30 - 21:30 Return to Auckland
(00:00 - 12:00 LBA observations on Ww)
Wednesday 9th Feb 2011 Venue WF510
9:00 - 10:30 Networks and eVLBI
- KAREN/REANZ report (20 mins) - Donald Clark?
- AARNet report (20 mins) - Chris Hancock
- CASS network plans (20 mins) - Shaun Amy
- Other networking plans?
- Overseas connectivity - India, Asia, Europe, South America, Africa
- e-VLBI tests?
- NEXPRES (Tasso)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/Tea
11:00 - 12:30 Technical issues
- AuScope report (Simon/Jamie) 15min?
- KAT-7 & Africa array (Jonathan) - 15 min?
- ASKAP developments (Tasso) - 15 mins
- DiFX technical developments (Cormac/Chris) - 20mins
- new features
- developments
- impact
- VLBI standards (Chris) 20 mins
- VDIF
- network protocols
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
- DAS developments (20 mins)
- DBBC
- DBE
- DFB3/CABB
- Uniboard
- New recorder developments (20 mins)
- Mk5b/c
- MK6
- New LBA recorder?
- Bruce recorder?
- Future??
- Review of actions and General discussion (30-50 mins)
15:30 - 16:00 Tea/Coffee
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