Radio Surveys

Science and Techniques

April 18, 2007

Venue: 2^nd floor conference room, IAS Headquarters, Motorola bldg, Los Alamos

Agenda:

9:00 Welcome – Rob Duncan (IAS Director)

9:10 Long Wavelength Array (LWA) Status and Outlook - Greg Taylor

9:40 Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) Status and Outlook – Walter Brisken

10:20-10:40 break

10:40 Imaging Challenges – Steve Myers

11:20 Issues of Long Baselines/Long Wavelengths/Large Fields – Kumar Golap

11:40-1:10 Lunch at Hot Rocks Cafe

1:10 Multi-frequency algorithm in Russian software package ASL – Leonia Kogan

1:30 Multi-frequency Synthesis – Urvashi Rao-Venkata

1:50 First Steps in Ionospheric Modeling – Chris Watts

2:10 Ionosphere – Abihrup Datta

2:30 A Simulator for the LWA – Masaya Kuniyoshi

2:50-3:10 break

3:10 Confusion and the WHIM in upcoming Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Surveys – Brian O'Shea

3:30 Cosmological MHD Simulations of Radio Sources – Hui Li

3:50 Software Correlation – Walter Brisken

4:10 Thinking Telescopes – Tom Vestrand

4:30-5:00 General Discussion. Where do we go from here?

Participants:

Walter Brisken (NRAO) Patrick Colestock (LANL) Sigrid Close (LANL) Abihrup Datta (NMT/NRAO)

Gianfranco Gentile (UNM) Kumar Golap (NRAO) Salman Habib (LANL) Bill Junor (LANL)

Leonia Kogan (NRAO) Masaya Kuniyoshi (UNM) Hui Li (LANL) Joe McMullin (NRAO)

Steve Myers (NRAO/LANL) Brian O'Shea (LANL) Mario Perez (LANL) Urvashi Rao-Venkata(NMT/NRAO)

Greg Taylor (UNM/NRAO) Steven Tremblay (UNM) Tom Vestrand (LANL) Rene Walterbos (NMSU)

Michael Warren (LANL) Chris Watts (UNM)