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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