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| Tuesday, February 11, 2020 |
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| 09:00 - 09:10 |
Welcome |
Phil Jewell |
NRAO |
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ALMA 2030 Roadmap Overview |
Session Chair: Stephen White |
| 09:10 - 10:00 |
The Current Status of ALMA and the ALMA2030 Roadmap |
Sean Dougherty |
Joint ALMA Observatory |
| 10:00 - 10:15 |
Unlocking the Chemistry of Planet Formation with ALMA |
Ilse Cleeves |
University of Virginia |
| 10:15 - 10:30 |
Moving Past Small Number Statistics with Broadband Surveys |
Brett McGuire |
NRAO |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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| 11:00 - 11:15 |
High-redshift Dust as a Galaxy Evolution Probe: Prospects for ALMA in the 2030's |
Kristina Nyland |
Naval Research Laboratory |
| 11:15 - 11:30 |
Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Next Decade: the ALMA2030 Vision |
Eric Jiménez-Andrade |
NRAO |
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Front End and Back End Progress |
Session Chair: Jongsoo Kim |
| 11:30 - 12:00 |
Overview of the Outcomes of ALMA FE & Digitizer Technical Requirements Working Group |
Gie Han Tan |
ESO |
| 12:00 - 12:30 |
Digital Front-End Architecture & Improved Quantization Losses |
Alain Baudry |
University of Bordeaux, LAB |
| 12:30 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 - 14:25 |
Upgrading the ALMA Digital System, from Digitization to Correlation |
Benjamin Quertier |
University of Bordeaux, LAB |
| 14:25 - 14:50 |
Data Transport Concepts for ALMA 2030 and ngVLA |
Sylas Ashton |
NRAO |
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Additional Goals/Capabilities with Significant Correlator Impact |
Session Chair: Adele Plunkett |
| 14:50 - 15:15 |
Longer Baselines, Delay Tracking, and Correlator Location |
Neil Phillips |
ESO |
| 15:15 - 15:40 |
Increasing the Collecting Area of ALMA in the 2030s |
Todd Hunter |
NRAO |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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| 16:00 - 16:25 |
ALMA Phasing Project - Current and Future |
Lynn Matthews |
MIT/Haystack |
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Baseline ALMA Correlator and Path to Development |
Session Chair: Rich Lacasse |
| 16:25 - 17:05 |
How the Current DTS and ALMA BL Correlator Was Implemented and Is Maintained |
Alejandro Saez |
Joint ALMA Observatory |
| 17:05 - 17:30 |
ALMA Development Framework |
Al Wootten |
NRAO |
| 17:30 - 18:30 |
Poster Reception |
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| Wednesday, February 12, 2020 |
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Next ALMA Correlator Requirements |
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| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Draft Next ALMA Correlator Specifications |
Corr Spec Working Group |
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| 09:45 - 10:45 |
Discussion (possible break out sessions) |
All |
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| 10:45 - 11:15 |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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Lessons Learned from Recent Digital Correlator Efforts |
Session Chair: Michael Rupen |
| 11:15 - 11:40 |
Lessons Learned from the Last NOEMA Wideband Correlator System |
Olivier Gentaz* |
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique |
| 11:40 - 12:05 |
SWARM: A 48 GHz Correlator and VLBI Beamformer for the Submillimeter Array |
Jonathan Weintroub |
CfA/ Harvard |
| 12:05 - 12:30 |
Lessons from ACA Correlator Development and Operation |
Takeshi Kamazaki |
NAOJ |
| 12:30 - 13:45 |
Lunch |
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| 13:45 - 14:10 |
MeerKAT Correlator/Beamformer |
Jason Manley |
SKA South Africa |
| 14:10 - 14:35 |
The Role of CPU-Based Correlators in Radio Astronomy |
Walter Brisken |
NRAO |
| 14:35 - 15:00 |
Lessons Learned from the VLITE Software Correlator |
Tracy Clarke |
NRL |
| 15:00 - 15:25 |
COBALT: 7 years of Real-time Correlation on GPUs |
Jan David Mol |
ASTRON |
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Emerging Projects and Technologies (EPT) - I |
Session Chair: Neil Phillips |
| 15:25 - 15:50 |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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| 15:50 - 16:15 |
SKA-Low |
Grant Hampson* / John Bunton* |
CSIRO |
| 16:15 - 16:40 |
SCREAM Design Concept for ngVLA |
Omar Yeste Ojeda |
NRAO |
| 16:40 - 17:05 |
TALON Frequency Slice Architecture Correlator / Beamformer for SKA1 Mid |
Mike Pleasance |
NRC Herzberg Astro |
| 17:05 - 17:30 |
A Near-Term Replacement for the Existing ALMA Correlator Using Technology and Signal Processing Developed for the SKA1 Mid Telescope Correlator/Beamformer |
Brent Carlson |
NRC Herzberg Astro |
| 17:30 - 17:45 |
Report on the Progress on the ALMA Cycle 7 Correlator Study |
Sonja Vrcic |
NRC Herzberg Astro |
| 18:30 - 21:00 |
Workshop Dinner |
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| Thursday, February 13, 2020 |
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Emerging Projects and Technologies (EPT) - II |
Session Chair: Alain Baudry |
| 09:00 - 09:25 |
The Tensor-Core Correlator |
John Romein |
ASTRON |
| 09:25 - 09:50 |
Lessons Learned from the Development of the ACA Spectrometer Based on GPU Technology |
Jongsoo Kim |
KASSI |
| 09:50 - 10:20 |
Discussion: Pros/Cons of ASIC, FPGA, GPU Architectures |
All |
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| 10:20 - 10:50 |
Coffee Break and Posters |
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Additional Topics |
Session Chair: Rachel Rosen |
| 10:50 - 11:05 |
How the ALMA Hardware in the Loop Project Can Accelerate the Implementation of the Next ALMA Correlator |
Daniel Herrera |
Joint ALMA Observatory |
| 11:05 - 11:20 |
Phased-Array Mode for TP-array Continuum Observations
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Seiji Kameno |
Joint ALMA Observatory |
| 11:20 - 11:45 |
ALMA Data Rate, Transport, and Storage Downstream of the Correlator |
Adele Plunkett |
NRAO |
| 11:45 - 12:10 |
Correlator Requirements for Next Generation Interferometers |
Michael Rupen |
NRC Herzberg Astro |
| 12:10 - 13:20 |
Lunch |
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Challenges for Prototyping, Deployment, and Commissioning |
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| 13:20 - 13:45 |
A Straw Deployment Concept for the Next ALMA Correlator |
Crystal Brogan |
NRAO |
| 13:45 - 14:15 |
Discussion of Prototyping and Deployment Challenges |
All |
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Refinement / Feedback for Next ALMA Correlator Specifications |
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| 14:15 - 14:45 |
Improved Specifications and Open Questions |
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