Program

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Mon, 9/19

Tue, 9/20

Wed, 9/21

Thu, 9/22

Fri,9/23

Sat, 9/24

8:30 AM


Welcome

Surface Measurement, Control and Adjustment

FBC, Metrology Systems

Telescope Reports

Departures

9:00 AM

Pointing I

9:30 AM

10:00 AM

10:30 AM

Break

Break

Break

Break

11:00 AM

Telescope Tour

Surface - cont

FBC - cont

Reports - cont

11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:30 PM

Arrivals

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch


















1:00 PM

1:30 PM

Pointing II

Surface - cont

Servos I

Instrument Demos

2:00 PM

2:30 PM

3:00 PM

Break

Break

Break

Break

3:30 PM

Pointing II - cont

Pointing Clinic

Servos II

Conference Summary

4:00 PM

4:30 PM

5:00 PM

5:30 PM

Drinks Reception


Break

Break

Break

Break

6:00 PM

Conference Dinner

Dinner

Optional SETI Tour

Dinner

Optional Control Room Tour

Dinner

6:30 PM

7:00 PM

7:30 PM

8:00 PM

8:30 PM

9:00 PM

Detailed Program

Tuesday, 20th September
08:30 – 09:00 Opening Remarks
POINTING I (CHAIR: Richard Prestage)
09:00 – 10:00 Patrick Wallace: “Ten reasons why accurate pointing is non-trivial” presentation
10:00 – 10:30 Peter Droll: “Pointing Performance of ESA Deep Space Antennas” presentation
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Telescope Tour
12:30 – 01:30 Lunch
POINTING II (CHAIR: Richard Prestage)
01:30 – 02:00 Klaus Willmeroth: “Metrology Improves Pointing at 12m ALMA Telescopes” presentation
02:00 – 02:30 Jinqing Wang: “Tian Ma 65m Performance Measurement” presentation
02:30 – 03:00 Li Fu: “Analysis on the Track Unevenness and Alidade Temperature Behavior of the Tian Ma 65m Antenna" presentation
03:00 – 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 – 04:00 Juan Penalver: “Thermal control, servo control and pointing model of the IRAM 30m telescope" presentation
04:00 – 04:30 Jin Huang: “Wind Effect and its Compensation for Large Reflector Antennas” presentation
04:30 – 05:00 Gian Felice Giaccu: “Preliminary Analysis of Wind Effects on Sardinia Radio Telescope” presentation
05:00 – 05:30 Summary / Discussion of Pointing
05:30 – 06:00 Break
06:00 – 07:00 Dinner
07:00 – 08:00 After Dinner Talk – Jay Lockman:59 Years of Radio Astronomy at Green Ban
08:00 – 09:00 Drinks in Drake Lounge

Wednesday 21st September
METROLOGY I: SURFACE MEASUREMENT, CONTROL AND ADJUSTMENT (CHAIR: Peter Droll)
08:30 – 09:30 Michael Kesteven: “Photogrammetry : A versatile tool for antenna metrology” presentation
09:30 - 10:00 Richard Prestage: Microwave Holography presentation
10:00 – 10:30 Xin Pei: “Some surface measurement work in XAO and high precision surface challenges in QTT" presentation
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Ron Holzloehner: M1/M2 Laser Ray Tracer for High-Speed Mirror Metrology in the E-ELT presentation
11:30 – 12:00 David Rochblatt: “Holographic Measurements and Performance of the NASA-JPL-DSN new 34-m BWG Antenna" presentation
12:00 – 12:30 Claudio Pernechele: “Dynamic mesurement of the relative deformations of the SRT main reflector" presentation
12:30 – 01:30 Lunch
01:30 - 2:00 David Woody: Measurement and Control of Large Telescope Surfaces presentation
02:00 – 02:30 Richard Prestage: “Leica Scan Station P40 Measurements of the GBT Primary Reflector” presentation
02:30 – 03:00 General discussion
03:00 – 03:30 Coffee Break
POINTING III (CHAIR:  Peter Droll)
03:30 – 05:30 Patrick Wallace: Pointing Clinic
05:30 – 06:00 Break
06:00 – 07:00 Dinner
07:00 – 09:00 Optional SETI Tour (20 max)
07:00 – 09:00 Drinks in Drake Lounge

Thursday 22nd September
METROLOGY II: FLEXIBLE BODY CONTROL; TELESCOPE METROLOGY SYSTEMS (CHAIR:David Rochblatt )
08:30 – 9:30 Hans Kaercher: “Flexible Body Control of Large Telescope Structures”
09:30 – 10:00 Prashant Kaswekar: “Sensor Fusion Based Integrated Motion Measurement for Telescopes Structures
10:00 – 10:30 Tonino Pisanu: “Metrology at Sardinia Radio Telescope”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30 Giampaolo Serra: “New tools for the SRT metrology: laser tracker and simulator for photogrammetric survey”
11:30 – 12:00 Andrew Rakich: “A telescope Metrology System for GMTO”
12:00 – 12:30 Fa Wang: “GBT Subreflector Stabilization Concepts”
12:30 – 01:30 Lunch
SERVOS AND CONTROL SYSTEMS (CHAIR: Zhiqiang Shen)
01:30 – 02:30 Mario Garcia-Sanz: “High-performance robust control solutions for advanced radio/optical telescopes”
02:30 – 03:00 Steffen Seubert: “Telescope control systems and the automation industry”
03:00 – 03:30 Coffee Break
03:30 – 04:00 David Smith: “High Performance Full-Digital Control on the LMT and KVN”
04:00 – 04:30 Suresh Sabhapathy: “Modern Servo system for GMRT Antenna and Feed”
04:30 – 05:00 Peng Li: “Servo Control of Large Radio Telescope with Disturbance Variations”
05:00 – 05:30 Discussions
05:30 – 06:00 Break
06:00 – 07:00 Dinner
07:00 – 09:00 GBT Control Room Tours (Optional)
07:00 – 09:00 Drinks in Drake Lounge

Friday 23rd September
TELESCOPE REPORTS; NEW DEVELOPMENTS (CHAIR: Tonino Pisanu)
08:30 – 09:00 Masao Saito: “Nobeyama 45-m telescope”
09:00 – 09:30 Qinghui Lui: “Report on Shanghai 65m Radio Telescope”
09:30 – 10:00 Gordon Lacy: “An Update on the Surface Metrology of a Single Piece Carbon Composite Offset Gregorian Radio   Reflector (DVA-1 and DVA-3)
10:00 – 10:30 Toshikazu Onishi: “New 50-m-class single-dish telescope: Large Submillimeter Telescope (LST)”
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:30 Kam Lau (Automated Precision Inc): Design Implementation and testing of the FAST Advanced Metrology System
12:30 – 01:30 Lunch
INSTRUMENT DEMOSTRATIONS (CHAIR: Richard Prestage)
01:30 – 02:30 Chris Branas: Leica Laser Scanner Demonstration
02:30 – 03:00 General Discussion
03:00 – 03:30 Coffee Break
CONFERENCE WRAP-UP (CHAIR: Richard Prestage)
03:30 – 04:30 General Discussion
04:30 – 05:30 Conference summary, future directions
05:30 – 06:00 Break
06:00 – 07:00 Dinner
07:00 – 09:00 Drinks in Drake Lounge

POSTERS
Jian Dong: “Out-Of-Focus Holography at the Tian Ma Telescope”
Congsi Wang: “Coupled Structural-Electromagnetic Modeling of Large High-Frequency Radio
Telescope Antennas and Its Application”