Program

Start	End	Subject	Speaker or Location
Sunday, May 18
10:00am		Participants from China depart Marriott for Green Bank	Stop for lunch
Afternoon		Registration and Check in	Residence Hall
5:00pm	6:00pm	Dinner available	Cafeteria
7:00pm	8:00pm	Welcome Reception	Lounge
Monday, May 19
7:30	8:30	Breakfast	Cafeteria
8:45	9:00	Welcome and Introductory Remarks	Tony Beasley, David Frayer
9:00	9:15	Summary of 2nd US-Chinese Workshop	Ken Kellermann
New Facilities (Chair – Martha Haynes)
9:15	9:45	Status of FAST	Di Li
9:45	10:15	Tian Ma 65-m Radio Telescope	Zhiqiang Shen
		Solar Radio Facilities
10:15	10:45	Chinese Spectral Radioheliograph - CSRH	Yihua Yan
10:45	11:15	Frequency Agile Solar Radio Telescope – FASR	Tim Bastian
11:15	11:45	Break
		New Instrumental and Technical Initiatives
11:45	12:00	A Broadband Receiver for FAST	Sandy Weinreb
12:00	12:15	Phased Array Feeds	Bill Shillue
12:15	12:45	Integrated Analog-Digital-Photonic Receivers	Matt Morgan
12:30	12:45	New VLBA Capabilities	Jon Romney
12:45pm	2:00pm	Lunch
New Facilities (Chair – Richard Prestage)
2:00	2:30	Plans for QTT	Na Wang
2:30	3:00	Challenges for QTT structure	Qian Xu
		US and China Radio Quiet Zones and RFI Mitigation
3:00	3:10	Radio Quiet Zones in China	Di Li
3:10	3:25	RFI Testing and mitigation	John Ford
3:25	3:40	National Radio Quiet Zone	Paulette Woody
3:40	4:15	Break (including Green Bank RFI Truck demonstration)	John Ford
		Terahertz Astronomy
4:15	4:40	Chinese Antarctic Observatory	Sheng-cai Shi
4:40	5:00	CCAT	Martha Haynes
5:00	5:45	Status of the Chinese Space Millimeter-Wavelength VLBI Array Planning	Xiaoyu Hong
6:00	7:00	Dinner	Cafeteria
7:30	9:30	Piano Concert by Jack Gibbons	Science Center
9:30		Lounge open
Tuesday, May 20
Scientific Opportunities (Chair – Xiaoyu Hong)
7:30am	8:30am	Breakfast	Cafeteria
8:00	10:00	Tour Green Bank Site
10:00	10:25	Epoch of Reionization: Recent Results from PAPER and Future Plans	Richard Bradley
		Quasars, AGN, and VLBI
10:25	10:50	Large AGN Surveys with VLBI	Matt Lister
10:50	11:05	Ultra-High Angular Resolution VLBI	Rusen Lu
11:05	11:15	Break
		Atomic and Molecular Gas in the Local Universe
11:15	11:33	Next Decade of HI Observations in the Local Universe	Jay Lockman
11:33	11:51	New Opportunities for Molecular Research	Al Wootten
11:51	12:07	Frontier Galactic Survey Opportunities with FAST	Carl Heiles
12:07	12:23	Mapping the Milky Way with Masers	Ye Xu
12:23	12:45	OH as Tracer for the Distribution of Galactic CO-Dark H₂	Ron Allen
12:45 pm	2:00pm	Lunch
Scientific Opportunities (Chair - Jay Lockman)
		Pulsars and Gravity Wave Detection
2:00	2:15	The Future of US/China Pulsar Work	Scott Ransom
2:15	2:30	Calibrating Instrumental Polarization Using Pulsars	Kejia Lee
2:30	2:45	A Decade of GBT Studies of the Double Pulsar	Maura McLaughlin
2:45	3:00	Origin of Pulsar Orthogonal Polarization Modes	Chen Wang
3:00	3:15	Gravitational Wave Detection with NanoGrav and the IPTA	Rick Jenet
3:15	3:30	Time-Dependent Events and the Stability in Pulsar Magnetospheres	Rai Yuen
3:30	4:00	Fast Radio Bursts	Duncan Lorimer
4:00	4:30	Break
Scientific Opportunities (Chair - Carl Heiles)
		Extragalactic HI
4:30	4:55	Prospects for Extragalactic HI Line Studies with Large Single Dishes	Martha Haynes
4:55	5:20	Exploring the Pisces-Perseus Supercluster with FAST	Li Xiao
		Megamaser Cosmology Project
5:20	5:40	A Geometric Measurement of Ho with the Megamaser Cosmology Project	Jim Braatz
5:40	6:00	NGC 5765b: A New Cornerstone Galaxy for MCP	Feng Gao
6:00pm	7:30pm	Traditional West Virginia Barbecue Dinner	Outside of Cafeteria
7:30pm	8:30pm	Bonfire
8:30pm		Lounge open for informal discussion
Wednesday, May 21
7:30am	8:30am	Breakfast	Cafeteria
8:45	12:15	Breakout Sessions to discuss collaborations	(coffee available)
		VLBI (AGN, Space VLBl science) An Tao: VLBI observations of dual AGN and binary BH Qing Hui Liu: VLBI tracking for Chang 'E 3	Lister, Shen, An, Hong, Kellermann, Lu, Readhead, Romney
		Extragalactic HI	Haynes, Li Xiao, Pisano, Ford
		Interstellar Medium and Molecules Roshi: Magnetic Field in Photo-dissociation Regions: Measuring Field Strength Using Radio Recombination Lines Junzhi Wang: Thermal and maser SiO emissions in active galaxies	Lockman, Allen, Anderson, Heiles, Li, Roshi, Schnee, Verschuur, Wootten
		H₂O Masers and MCP	Braatz, Gao, Lo, Shen, JIangShui
		Pulsars and FRBs Jintao Luo: A GPU Accelerated Pulsar Acceration Search	Ransom, W. Chen, Jenet, K. Li, Lorimer, Luo, McLaughlin, Y. Wu, Yuen
		Solar Radio Astronomy, FASR, CSRH	Bastian, Yan
		New Technology Opportunities 8:45 Shillue: Phased Array Feeds 9:05 Weinreb: Radio Frequency Interference 9:35 Weinreb:Receiver Gain Fluctuations 9:55 Morgan: Integrated Receivers 10:15 Break 10:30 Sri Srikanth: EM Components 10:50 Jianfeng Zhou: Stellar Synthetic Aperture Radar 11:05 Durand: Digital Data over Fiber 11:25 Qinghui Liu: VLBI tracking for Chang E-3 11:55 Summary	Prestage, Dickman, Durand, Egan, Ford, Morgan, Roshi, Shi, Shillue, Srikanth, Watts, Weinreb, White, Xu, Zhou,
		Radio Astronomy in the SKA Era	Hong, Beasley, Dickman, Kellermann, D. Li, Moran, Shen, Shi, Wang, Yan, Zhang
12:15pm	1:30pm	Lunch	Cafeteria
1:30	3:30	Panel Discussion: Radio Astronomy in the SKA Era Beasley, Hong	Moderator: *Ken Kellermann* Beasley, Dickman, Hong, Li, Moran, Shen, Shi, Wang, Yan, Zhang
3:30	4:00	Break
Final Session (Chair – Jim Moran)
4:00	5:15	Reports from Breakout Sessions
5:15	5:45	Summary and "The Way Forward"	Beasley, Hong
6:00	7:00	Dinner	Cafeteria
6:30pm		Shuttle bus back to IAD Marriott for early Thurs departures
7:00		Farewell Gathering	Jay Lockman's House
Thursday, May 22
Early Morning		Chinese Participants Depart for Dulles Airport (IAD)
11:00am		Checkout Time from Green Bank Housing

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