Program

TimeTitleSpeakerAffiliation
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
09:00 - 09:10 Welcome Phil Jewell NRAO
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
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
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
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
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
16:00 - 16:25 ALMA Phasing Project  - Current and Future Lynn Matthews MIT/Haystack
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
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Next ALMA Correlator Requirements
09:00 - 09:45 Draft Next ALMA Correlator Specifications Corr Spec Working Group
09:45 - 10:45 Discussion (possible break out sessions) All
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break and Posters
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
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
Emerging Projects and Technologies (EPT) - I Session Chair: Neil Phillips
15:25 - 15:50 Coffee Break and Posters
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
Thursday, February 13, 2020
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
10:20 - 10:50 Coffee Break and Posters
   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
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
Challenges for Prototyping, Deployment, and Commissioning
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
Refinement / Feedback for Next ALMA Correlator Specifications  
14:15 - 14:45 Improved Specifications and Open Questions

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