Program of Activities for MWA January 2009 Project Meeting (Revision: 20:48 UT 21Jan2009) Meetings will be held in the Duffield Lecture Theatre, which is most easily accessed from the oval in front of the Commonwealth Solar Observatory (CSO) building Day 1. Mon-19-Jan-2009 ===== =============== 0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Sun-18-Jan-2009 1700 BOS] Opening Remarks and Management Reports: 9:00 Chair of MWA Board - Welcome (Webster) 9:10 MWA Project Director (Whitney) 9:20 MWA Project Manager (Tingay) 10:00 MWA Project Engineer (Briggs) 10:30 MWA Project Scientist (Greenhill) 10:55 info on Meeting logistics 11:00 Coffee - AITC 11:30 ASKAP Theme Leader (DeBoer) 12:00 Report on Future of 21cm arrays & US Decadal Review (Hewitt) 12:15 Results from November 2008 Tests and Observations - Overview of data taken (Mitchell) - Summary of RRI analysis (Shankar) - Orbcomm satellite observations (Mitchell) - DMSP Sat (Oberoi) - Solar Observations (Cairns/Oberoi) - Pulsar Observations (?if not covered elsewhere) - Mapping Celestial Sources (Mitchell/Greenhill) - Interferometer calibration tests (Mitchell) - Drift scan observations (Briggs) - RFI (Mitchell/Briggs/Kocz) 13:00 Lunch - CSO Commons 14:00 CBR- [0830 BLR - 22:00 BOS] 14:00 Results from Boolardy (continued) 14:30 Review of Workpackage by Workpackage Status [If the WP review is not completed on Day-1, we will finish this in the afternoon of Day-2] [The Infrastructure and Correlator related topics are scheduled early in this session to insure comprehensive treatment while our CSIRO colleagues are available] [To include: current status, work to be done + timeline, strategy for manufacture for build-out - if not covered elsewhere] Infrastructure (Logistics/Deployment, Operations) (Tingay) Polyphase Filterbank (Bunton/Cappallo) Correlator Board (Cappallo/Bunton) 15:30 Tea Break - AITC 15:45 Workpackages (continued) 17:00 drinkies - CSO Commons Day 2. Tue-20-Jan-2009 ===== =============== 0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Mon-19-Jan-2009 1700 BOS] Science Day 0900 CBR - 1700 BOS - 0330 BLR 09:00 EOR: Frank(chairing) - EDGES (Judd) - CORE (Aaron) - Skymapper High Z QSOs (Patrick) 10:00 SHI - WP leader intro & status - leader organized contributions 11:00 Coffee - AITC 11:30 Transients Overview of Transient WP Status (Shami) LOFAR mtg review (Tara) Skymapper Transients (Brad) 12:15 Galactic/Extra-Galactic - Overview of GEG WP Status (Bryan) 13:00 Lunch - CSO Commons (13:00-15:00 Alignment Group in AITC ConferenceRoom) 14:00 Continuation of Review of Workpackage by Workpackage Status Antenna Development (Cappallo/Lonsdale) Receiver node development (Waterson+Shankar) Clock (Greenhill/Cappallo) Data Transport (Cappallo/Shankar) Real Time System (Mitchell/Greenhill) Real-time Computer (Greenhill/Mitchell) Monitor and Control (AWilliams) System Integration (Cappallo/Briggs) 15:30 Tea Break - AITC Continuation of Review of Workpackage by Workpackage Status 17:00 ... - CSO Commons Day 3. Wed-20-Jan-2009 ===== =============== 0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Tue-19-Jan-2009 1700 BOS] 09:00 Break-out Sessions - Break for coffee at 11:00 Sess. I. EoR Data Analysis Pipeline (Hewitt organizing - draft below) * Hewitt - data-taking plans for 512T and what we might put in archive (we need input from those who will use the data!) * Bowman - data-taking plans for 32T * Matejek - simulations, including a Grand Challenge * Pindor - bright point source subtraction * Bowman - smooth foreground and confusion-level source subtraction in image plane * Tegmark/Liu - smooth foreground and confusion-level source subtraction in uv plane * Geil - polarized foregound subtraction * Morales - power spectrum fitting, including residual foregrounds * ?? - RFI monitoring and excision? <[not sure this is the right place... but can't hurt... Mitch/Lincoln/Frank?]> * Shankar - GMRT-MWA Survey * Greenhill - Sky Survey * Bowman - timeline for development and implementation of pipeline Sess. II. (concurrent?) SHI/??? Need input from SHI/??? Sess.III. (concurrent?) Transients??? etc 13:00 Lunch 14:00 Breakout Sessions - Break for tea at 15:30 Work Package Review Continues!!! RTS (led by Mitchell/Greenhill) M&C RTC Data Transport System Integration * RTS Ses. VI. RTS morphs into work-session with hands-on demo of MAPS Further Possibilities (please comment and add suggestions): Sess. IV. detailed discusson of technical issues with hardware. Strong interaction with datasets. Sess. V. Plans for next Site Visit (Key technical issues and strategies; science aspirations for exercising the 32T array; building technical experience and spreading on-site expertise throughout the project) Day 4. Thu-22-Jan-2009 ===== =============== 0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Wed-21-Jan-2009 1700 BOS] 09:00 Finale for EoR Pipeline review.. led by Judd Bowman 09:++ Breakout sessions - Break for coffee at 1100, lunch at 1300, tea at 1530 Convened by Project Manager to review expectations for the day 13:00 Lunch 14:00 RSAA All-School Colloquium - Lincoln Greenhill, MWA Project Scientist After Colloquium: Sess. VIII, IX, X as required.. 16:30 Reconvene to debrief 17:00 Adjourn 19:00 Conference Dinner - Vivaldi's Day 5. Fri-23-Jan-2009 ===== =============== 0900 CBR - 0330 BLR - [Thu-22-Jan-2009 1700 BOS] Coffee @ 11:00 - AITC LUNCH @ 12:30 - Stromlo Payday Barbeque - CSO Courtyard Tea @ 15:30 - AITC Parallel Sessions: * MWA Board - all day - AITC Conference Room * Technical and/or Scientific Breakout Sessions as required... 16:00 Wrap-up & Farewell