Final Agenda for GBT Future Instrumentation Workshop
9 September 2006
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Thursday Sept 7
07:30-08:30 Breakfast in Cafeteria
08:30-09:00 Intro and purpose of Workshop, schedule, etc: Lockman
09:00-10:30 Status of the GBT:
Structure & surface: Prestage
Frontends, backends & weather: O'Neil
RFI environment: Beaudet
Software: Shelton
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:50 Pushing the High Frequency Performance of the GBT: Ford
11:50-12:15 Science drivers for multi-band systems:
Ransom, Minter
12:15-13:15 Lunch in Cafeteria
13:15-14:00 Science Drivers for Bolometer Arrays, and The Penn Array:
Dicker, Mason
14:00-14:30 Ultrawideband Spectroscopy: Harris
14:30-15:15 Science Drivers for redshifted line studies:
Andrew Baker, Langston
15:15-15:40 VLBI-- Science Drivers: Cordes
Upcoming Technology: Brisken
15:40-16:00 Break
16:00-16:45 Spectroscopy prospects in the 3mm band millimeter band:
Pisano, O'Neil, Wootten
16:45-17:30 Developments in Receiver technology I: Morgan, Pospieszalski,
Wollack, Claude
17:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00-19:30 Reception in Residence Hall Lounge and Dinner in Cafeteria
19:30-21:00 Evening Discussion: New Software Tools: Shelton moderates
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Friday Sept 8
07:30-08:30 Breakfast in Cafeteria
08:30-10:45 GBT Tour (meet outside the Residence Hall)
10:45:10:55 Break
10:55-12:00 Science Drivers for Pulsar Research: Backer, Lorimer, Cordes
12:00-12:30 Spectrometers: Werthimer
12:30-13:15 Lunch in Cafeteria
13:15-13:45 Electronics Lab & GBT Control Room Tour
13:45-14:30 Backends: Mock, Backer, Ransom
14:30-15:15 Continuum Studies, a 6-8 GHz receiver, Planetary Radar:
Mason, Pandian, Campbell
15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:45 Science Drivers for Spectroscopic
Focal Plane Arrays: DiFrancesco, Lockman,
Hollis, Heyer, Haynes
16:45-17:30 Focal Plane Arrays: Carilli, Gaier, Narayanan
17:30-18:00 Discussion
18:00-19:30 Reception in Residence Hall Lounge and Dinner in Cafeteria
19:30-21:00 Discussion on the prospects for beam forming arrays: Fisher,
Dougherty, Gaier, Brisken, ...
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Saturday Sept 9
08:00-09:15 Breakfast in Cafeteria
09:15-11:00 Engineering Realities and Science Objectives:
Fisher, Lockman, Norrod, Shelton, Webber
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Final Discussion: opportunities for collaborative projects:
Prestage, Jewell, Frail
12:30-13:30 Lunch in Cafeteria
13:30 Tour of the 43m (140 Foot) Telescope
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