MWA-LFD Kick-Off Meeting

San Diego, Ca

2006 June 4, 5, 6, 7

Sunday, June 4^th

Technical Working Group Discussions

Location: Radisson hotel

Monday, June 5^th

Project status in detail

Location: Radisson Hotel

8:30 - 9:00 Project Introduction (Lonsdale)

· Science requirements, priorities and focus

· Goals and timeline

· The Project Office

9:00 - 9:20 System overview (Cappallo)

9:20 - 9:40 Subsystem relationships and dataflow (Morales)

9:40 - 10:00 Node enclosure and receiver system (Briggs)

10:00 - 10:15 Clock, Monitor and control (Lonsdale)

10:15 - 10:40 Coffee break

10:40 - 10:55 Data transport and routing layer (Cappallo)

10:55 - 11:15 Correlator (Bunton)

11:15 - 11:35 Data averaging and binning (Morales)

11:35 - 11:55 Imaging and ionospheric calibration (Doeleman)

11:55 - 12:15 Instrumental calibration (Mitchell)

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch (catered)

13:30 - 13:45 EOR database (Hewitt)

13:45 - 14:00 Faraday rotation (Kasper)

14:00 - 14:15 Beamforming, IPS (Oberoi)

14:15 - 14:30 All sky monitor (Cappallo)

14:30 - 14:50 Antenna and analog beamformer (Corey)

14:50 - 15:15 Tea break

15:15 - 15:30 System integration (Cappallo)

15:30 - 16:00 Infrastructure (Lynch)

16:00 - 16:30 Work package list. Issues and risks areas (Lonsdale)

16:30 - 17:30 Discussions, questions, problems (All)