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LBA Ops and technical/eVLBI meeting, 8-9 Feb 2011, NZ

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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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