3GCII Workshop
The final program can be accessed as a Google calendar. Use the "Week" view button at the top of the page.
(Also available in hi-res PDF):
For inclusion in reports and other documents where swimming pools may not be appreciated, we have the boring version (also in hi-res PDF).
Finally, there is a completely unofficial but PG-rated animated version.
The meeting is being broadcast via EVO. If you do not have an account on EVO, please register yourself, it's free. Click on "Start" to start up the EVO client, which is called Koala. Our meeting name is "3GC-II" (use Meetings: Search if you don't see it in the list), and the meeting password is "beams".
Jan Noordam: Setting The Scene
Oleg Smirnov: Measuring The Beam
Bradley Frank: CASA Tutorial (in PDF format)
Oleg Smirnov: MeqTrees Tutorial
Benjamin Mort: The OSKAR Simulator (PPT format, with animations) (PDF format, no animations)
Stephen Bourke: mkant Tutorial (webpage with download)
Tony Willis: Antenna Beams and the SKA: How to select a dish design?
Walter Brisken: Modeling Antenna Beams, including Sanjay Bhatnagar's slides on DDEs (ODP format, with animations) (PDF format, no animation), and Bruce Veidt's GRASP9 slides.
Walter Brisken: Delay Model Expansion
Walter Brisken: cassbeam tutorial files.
Ian Heywood: EVLA DDEs and the WHDF at 8.4 GHz
Marianna Ivashina: An overview of PAF beamforming methods, and a novel beam modeling concept.
Stephan Wijnholds: Calculating Beam Pattern Inaccuracies and Their Implications (ODP version) (PDF vesion)
Tobia Carozzi: Radio interferometer calibratability and its limits
Where not to stick a phase calibrator: a purrlog of our simulation effort prompted by Ian Heywood's talk of Thursday.
Isak Theron: Summary of beam modeling issues
Jan Noordam: First week summary
Christophe Craeye: Main beam representation in non-regular arrays (PPT version) (PDF version)
Duncan Hall: What will it take to deliver SKA1 and SKA2?
Leon Koopmans: Ionospheric Tomography for Low-Frequency Wide-Field Arrays
Stefan Wijnholds: Identifiability of DDEs
Link to memos mentioned by Tony in the discussion: http://astro.berkeley.edu/~wright/mma_memo.ps. See also this pdf version of BIMA memo 73 Mel Wright on BIMA image fidelity.
Peter Williams: ATA Dishes & Beamshapes.
Jasper Horrell: MeerKAT Overview.
Isak Theron: MeerKAT Optics Design.
Cyril Tasse: Basics Of Imaging & AW-Projection
N. Iniyan: UV-Brick Implementation
Ger de Bruyn: Life, The Universe & Everything. This talk was recorded with EVO, if you want to see it, download the tarball, unpack it and play with the EVO Recording Player (http://evo.caltech.edu): deBruyn-talk.tgz.
["3GCII Software Discussion"] led by Peter Williams.
Cyril Tasse: Additional Notes On AW-Projection
Oleg Smirnov: MeqTrees Batch Mode: A Short Tutorial
Stephen Bourke: Summary of beam measurement issues Additional Information / Notes
Cyril Tasse: Summary of DDE application issues
Isak Theron: Summary of beam modeling issues
Jan Noordam: Summary of the summaries of the summaries and parting remarks.
Stephen Bourke: Build notes for Casa on ubuntu 10.10
I tried these instructions with ubuntu 10.04. Everything seems to build until we arrive at the Qt stuff. Although the current casa/CMakeLists.txt claims to look for QT 4.3 OR 4.5 the fact is that qt 4.7 is required due to a QLineEdit object calling the setPlaceholderText function, which was not introduced till Qt 4.7. I've installed the Qt 4.7 SDK - now I just have to figure out how to tell the CMake to find the right libraries etc. - Tony Willis
Yeah, that issue is actually the reason I upgraded my own system to 10.10 and wrote the above notes. It's due to the new region manager that was introduced in r15960. I did wonder if the dependency bump implications of using that function were known / intentional (maybe not as Cmake doesn't check for version 4.7 as you mention) I'll drop the NRAO a mail about it... - Stephen Bourke