Program
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Mon, 9/19 |
Tue, 9/20 |
Wed, 9/21 |
Thu, 9/22 |
Fri,9/23 |
Sat, 9/24 |
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8:30 AM |
Welcome |
Surface Measurement, Control and Adjustment |
FBC, Metrology Systems |
Telescope Reports |
Departures |
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9:00 AM |
Pointing I |
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9:30 AM |
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10:00 AM |
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10:30 AM |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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11:00 AM |
Telescope Tour |
Surface - cont |
FBC - cont |
Reports - cont |
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11:30 AM |
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12:00 PM |
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12:30 PM |
Arrivals |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
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1:00 PM |
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1:30 PM |
Pointing II |
Surface - cont |
Servos I |
Instrument Demos |
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2:00 PM |
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2:30 PM |
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3:00 PM |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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3:30 PM |
Pointing II - cont |
Pointing Clinic |
Servos II |
Conference Summary | ||
4:00 PM |
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4:30 PM |
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5:00 PM |
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5:30 PM |
Drinks Reception |
Break |
Break |
Break |
Break |
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6:00 PM |
Conference Dinner |
Dinner Optional SETI Tour |
Dinner Optional Control Room Tour |
Dinner |
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6:30 PM |
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7:00 PM |
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7:30 PM |
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8:00 PM |
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8:30 PM |
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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” |
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