Original Program

Agenda

Day 1: 4 November 2009

	Opening and Welcome Peter Wilkinson, U. Manchester
	Views on Large Scale projects from the EC Hervé Pero, European Commission
	SKA Developments Richard Schilizzi, SKA Program Development Office
	Overview SKADS Arnold van Ardenne, ASTRON
	SKADS white paper; technologies Andrew Faulkner, U. Cambridge
	SKADS white paper; science Steve Torchinsky, Observatoire de Paris
	Review of SKADS Sky Simulations Steve Rawlings, Oxford University
	Pulsars Michael Kramer, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
	AGN Feedback: Where Does the Jet Energy Go Matt Lehnert, Observatoire de Paris
	The Transient Sky Joe Lazio, Naval Research Lab / SKA Program Development Office
	Epoch of Reionisation Saleem Zaroubi, Kapteyn Institute
	Wide field polarimetry and Cosmic Magnetism Rainer Beck, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
	Chemical Complexity with the SKA José Cernicharo, Laboratory of Molecular Astrophysics, Madrid

Day 2: 5 November 2009

	Science and early results with LOFAR Ger de Bruyn, ASTRON
	Widefield astronomy with ASKAP Carole Jackson, CSIRO
	The WSRT focal plane array system APERTIF Tom Oosterloo, ASTRON
	Overview on the Hl SKA End2end Simulations Hans Rainer Klöckner, Oxford University
	Fast Large Volume Simulation of the Epoch of Reionization Mário Santos, CENTRA IST
	Science Simulations for Radio inteferometers Ian Heywood, Oxford University
	Atmospheric Turbulences in Widefield Interferometric Images Ivan Marti Vidal, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
	Active Antennas; Design and Characterization Jan Geralt Bij de Vaate, ASTRON
	Phase Transfer for Timing and LO distribution Roshene McCool, SKA Program Development Office
	Data flow and processing- a key SKA design driver Paul Alexander, University of Cambridge
	System design choices; Cost and performance trade-offs Rosie Bolton, University of Cambridge
	The Building of EMBRACE Dion Kant, ASTRON
	2-PAD: An overview Georgina Harris, University of Manchester
	Mixed Signal Transportation for the EMBRACE antenna tiles Thomas Berenz, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
	Best: Basic Element for SKA Training Stelio Montebugnoli, Istituto di Radioastronomie, INAF, Medicina
	Fully-digital beam forming results from 2PAD Kris Zarb Adami, Oxford University
	Low noise Broadband Amplifiers in InGaAs/InAlAs Sanae Boulay, University of Manchester
	Design of High Performance Aperture Array Antennas Yongwei Zhang, University of Manchester
	FIDA: A novel Active Array for the Mid-SKA Oscar Garcia Perez, Fundacion General de la Universidad de Alcala
	Integrated Receivers for mid band SKA Suzy Jackson, CSIRO
	EMBRACE receiver design Jader Monari, Istituto di Radioastronomie, INAF, Medicina
	Reliability performance on radioreceiver chains for BEST Valeria Scarano, University of Florence

Day 3: 6 November 2009

	Aperture Array Frontend Design for Production Marco Drost, ASTRON
	Progress on analog Frontend for 2-Pad Tim Ikin, University of Manchester
	SKA LNA technolgies and topologies Saswata Bhaumik, University of Manchester
	EMBRACE Station Processing Philippe Picard, Observatoire de Paris
	The OSKAR beamforming simulator Fred Dulwich, Oxford University
	The 2-PAD Digital System Architecture Chris Shenton, University of Manchester
	A Real-time SW. Broadband Beamformer on IBM Cyclops Aziz AhmedSaid, University of Manchester (presented by Chris Shenton)
	EMBRACE: Experiments with 10.000 elements Stefan Wijnholds, ASTRON
	Array Configuration Simulations in SKADS Andrei Lobanov, Max Planck Institut für Radioastronomie
	Quantifying and Improving Polarimetric Widefield Observations Tobia Carozzi, Glasgow University
	Redundant Baseline Calibration on Dense Arrays Parisa Noorishad, ASTRON
	Cost effective infrastructure in a multi-telescope layout Gabriel Grigorescu, University of Cambridge
	SKA Pathfinders and Solar System science and exploration Leonid Gurvits, Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe
	Euclid:an optical view of the whole extragalactic sky Roberto Scaramella, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (presented by Steve Rawlings)
	The SKA AA-lo array; E.M. simulation and design Eloy de Lera Acedo, Cambridge University
	SKADS DS2 and beyond Jan Noordam, ASTRON
	AAVP Arnold van Ardenne, ASTRON
	ICRAR and its Contributions to AAVP Peter Hall, Curtin University