Low Frequency Software Workshop

Meeting Schedule

August 10, 2008 Acapulco , West Tower, Gold Level

Session 1: Project status updates

9:00 AM Welcome

9:05 AM PAPER update – Don Backer

9:15 AM EDGES update – Judd Bowman

9:25 AM LWA update – Ylva Pihlström

9:35 AM ETA update – Steve Ellingson

9:45 AM MWA update – Lincoln Greenhill

9:55 AM LOFAR update – Ger de Bruyn

10:05 AM Coffee break

Session 2: Array Simulators

10:20 AM Simulations for the Long Wavelength Array – Masaya Kunioshi

10:40 AM The MAPS simulator – Randall Wayth

11:00 AM Beam modeling with MeqTrees – Sarod Yatawatta

11:20 AM Systematic errors and artifacts in spectrometers – Alan Rogers

11:40 AM AIPY: Astronomical Interferometry in Python – Aaron Parsons

12:00 AM Discussion

12:30 PM Lunch (not included)

Session 3: Real-time calibration and imaging

1:40 PM The MWA real time system – Daniel Mitchell

2:00 PM ETA data processing – Steve Ellingson

2:20 PM LOFAR calibration of the ionosphere and other fun things – James Anderson

2:40 PM Discussion

Session 4: Off-line calibration and imaging algorithms

3:10 PM GMRT low frequency data processing – Subhashis Roy

3:30 PM MWA off-line foreground subtraction and processing – Judd Bowman

3:50 PM Coffee break

4:10 PM MWA survey imaging – Steve Ord

4:30 PM The VLSS – Aaron Cohen

4:50 PM Imaging and calibration algorithms research using CASA – Sanjay Bhatnagar

5:10 PM Discussion

6:00 PM Workshop ends

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