SQUARE KILOMETER ARRAY

US CONSORTIUM

O P E N M E E T I N G

February 28 and 29, 2000

Arecibo Observatory/NAIC, Cornell University


Organizing Committee:

Yervant Terzian, Cornell (Chair)

Mike Davis, NAIC (Chair LOC)

Ken Kellermann, NRAO

Jack Welch, UC Berkeley

Monday, February 28:

Session Chair: Yervant Terzian

Welcome to NAIC and Arecibo [Paul Goldsmith & Daniel Altschuler, NAIC]

Introduction to the SKA/US Consortium [Jackie Hewitt, MIT]........pdf ...644kb

The SKA Project: A Scientific Necessity [Don Backer, UC Berkeley]........pdf ...858kb

Pulsars and Transient Sources [Jim Cordes, Cornell]........ppt. 1,566kb.........pdf ...678kb

The SKA and the High Redshift Universe [Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell].........pdf ...901kb

SKA: Applications to Galactic Astronomy [Carl Heiles, UC Berkeley]........pdf ...1,440kb

Radio Emission from GRBs and Supernovae : The Need for SKA [Kurt W. Weiler, NRL].......ppt. 1,480kb......pdf ...737kb

Session Chair: Michael Davis

Radar SKA Possibilities [Don Campbell, NAIC]........doc. 39kb.........pdf ...16kb

Star Formation and Molecular Clouds with the SKA [Mark Reid, CfA]........pdf 1,486kb

Radio Galaxies and SKA Resolution [Frazer Owen, NRAO].........pdf ...846kb

SETI and the SKA [Jill Tarter, SETI Institute]........ppt. 9,621kb.........pdf ...1,791kb

LOFAR [Namir Kassim, NRL].........pdf ...1,906kb

Solar Radar with LOFAR [Brett Isham, Interamerican Univ.].........pdf ...611kb

Thermal Studies of Solar System Objects with the SKA [Lynn Carter, Cornell]..........pdf ...329kb

The SKA and Nearby Galaxies [Bryan Gaensler, MIT ....pdf. 706kb......and Snezana Stanimirovic, NAIC].....pdf ...1,110kb

OH Megamasers at High Redshift and the Galaxy Merger Rate [Jeremy Darling, Cornell].........pdf ...666kb

Epoch of Reionization and the Very First Stars [Frank Briggs, Kapteyn Institute]..........

 

Tuesday, February 29:

Session Chair: Jack Welch

Array Configurations [Colin Lonsdale, Haystack Obs.]..........pdf ...1,839kb

RFI and Technical Realities [Rick Fisher, NRAO]..........pdf ...685kb

Instrumentation Limits [Sandy Weinreb, JPL].........doc. 477kb.........pdf ...389kb

Joint Multibeaming and RFI Suppression for SKA-Class Systems [Steve Ellingson, Ohio State]........pdf ...609kb

Frontends [David DeBoer, Georgia Inst. of Technology]..........pdf ...1,069kb

Correlators [Roger Cappallo, Haystack Obs.]..........pdf ...926kb

Session Chair: Ken Kellermann

SKA Feeds [Jack Welch, UC Berkeley]..........pdf ...963kb

The Need for Both Short and Long Spacings in the SKA [John R. Dickel, Univ. of Illinois]..........pdf ...1,775kb

SKA Software & Data Flow [Tony Beasley, NRAO]..........pdf ...605kb

Simulating SKA Observations in AIPS++ [Mark Holdaway, NRAO]........pdf ...713kb

The 1HT Project [Douglas Bock, UC Berkeley]..........ppt. 6,269kb...........pdf ...1,790kb

Where on Earth Do You Put the SKA? [Yervant Terzian, Cornell]..........pdf ...243kb

Funding the SKA : An Exponential Approach [Mike Davis, NAIC]..........pdf ...854kb

Summary and Concluding Remarks [Bernie Burke, MIT].........pdf ...479kb

Discussion: Where do we go from here? [ Ken Kellermann, NRAO, et al.]......... pdf....64kb

Adjourn