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CASPER 2012 Presentation Videos

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Monday, August 13

Session 1, 8:30 AM – 1:00 PM, Jansky Auditorium
8:30 – 8:45 AM	Introduction to the Workshop John Ford
8:45 – 9:15 AM	The CASPER Collaboration for Radio Astronomy Signal Processing State of the Union / Religion / Recruiting Session Dan Werthimer
9:15 – 10:15 AM	Introduction to the CASPER Tools Griffin Foster, Jack Hickish, Danny Price
10:35 – 11:35 AM	Python for CASPER NRAO Green Bank Software Group
11:35 AM – 12:35 PM	Tutorial Introductions Hong Chen, John Ford, Nie Jun

Tuesday, August 14

Session 2, 8:30 – 10:50 AM, John Ford, Chair
8:30 – 9:00 AM	DataDirect Networks—High Performance Storage Subsystems
9:00 – 9:30 AM	Hittite Corporation—High Performace ADCs
9:30 – 9:50 AM	The USRPA Flexible Mixed-Signal Platform for Scientific Instrumentation John Malsbury
9:50 – 10:10 AM	Black Hole Science with CASPER the Event Horizon Telescope Jonathan Weintroub, Rurik Primiani, Ken Young, Sheperd Doeleman, Dave MacMahon, Matt Dexter
10:10 – 10:30 AM	Solar Burst Spectra with a CASPER-Based Correlator Dale Gary, Bin Chen, Tim Bastian, James LeMaire, Daniel Diveny, Michael Pasternack
10:30 – 10:50 AM	Science Update from the GMRT Yashwant Gupta

Session 3, 11:10 AM – 1:00 PM, Dan Werthimer, Chair *Note: Presentations for this session were not recorded*
11:10 – 11:30 AM	The C-Band All Sky Survey Charles Copley, Mike Jones, Angela Taylor
11:30 – 11:50 AM	Searching for Galactic Center Pulsars with VEGAS Andrew Siemion, GBTGC Pulsar Team
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM	Using CASPER Hardware in Surveys for Fast Transients and SETI Laura Spitler
12:10 – 12:30 PM	Pulsar Applications of CASPER Hardware, From Single Dishes to SKA-I Matthew Bailes
12:30 – 12:50 PM	Next Generation FPGA Design Flows Wesley New

Wednesday, August 15

Session 4, 8:30 – 10:30 AM, Yashwant Gupta, Chair
8:30 – 8:50 AM	MeerKAT Status Update Francois Kapp
8:50 – 9:10 AM	The LOFAR Station Correlator and Updates from CASPER at Oxford Griffin Foster
9:10 – 9:30 AM	VEGAS: the VErsatile GBT Astronomical Spectrometer Glenn Jones and the VEGAS Team
9:30 – 9:50 AM	From MeerKAT to SKA-1s Dish Array: A Digital Perspective Jason Manley
9:50 – 10:10 AM	High Level Issues for the Implementation of Scienti c Applications in High Performance Heterogeneous Systems Juan A. Lopez, Enrique Sedano Algarabel, Luis Esteban Hernandez, Sergio Hernandez Montero
10:10 – 10:30 AM	Scalable ROACH F-Engine for Correlators Hong Chen, Terry Filiba, Zaki Ali, Dan Werthimer

Session 5, 10:50 AM – 1:00 PM, Jonathan Weintroub, Chair
10:50 – 11:10 AM	FPGA/GPU Hybrid Correlator Design and Implementation David MacMahon
11:10 – 11:30 AM	An FPGA/GPU Correlator Prototype: Toward LEDA First Light Jonathon Kocz, L. J. Greenhill, M. A. Clark, A. Jameson
11:30 – 11:50 AM	Design, Development and Testing of a GPU Based Backend for the GMRT Harshavardan Reddy Suda - Presented by Yashwant Gupta
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM	Future Development Plans for the GMRT Yashwant Gupta
12:10 – 12:30 PM	CASPER Technology Use in the ALMA Phasing Project Rich Lacasse, Ray Escoffier, Joe Greenberg, Alejandro Saez
12:30 – 12:50 PM	The ROACH-1 DBE Implementation for VLBA: A success story S. Durand, M. Revnell, M. Luce, K. Morris

Thursday, August 16

Session 6, 8:30 – 10:40 AM, Francois Kapp, Chair
8:30 – 9:05 AM	Xilinx Technology Update Steve Trimberger
9:05 – 9:40 AM	Arista Networks Technology Darrin Machay
9:40 – 10:00 AM	New Detection Techniques for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays, an R&D Effort for Wide-field Microwave Transient Telescopes Christopher Williams
10:00 – 10:20 AM	Real-time UWB 2-D Analog Fan Filters for Steerable Highly Selective Analog Aperture Arrays Chamith Wijenayake, Arjuna Madanayake, Leonid Belostotski, Yongsheng Xu, Len Bruton
10:20 – 10:40 AM	Digital Architectures for RF Real-time UWB Aperture-Array Beam Forming Using 2-D IIR Spatio-temporal Beam Filters Soumya Kondapalli, Arjuna Madanayake, Len T. Bruton

Session 7, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM, Jason Manley, Chair
11:00 – 11:20 AM	Three-Dimensional 3-D Wave-Digital Filter Beamformer Architectures for RF Dense Aperture Array Applications Nilanka Rajapaksha, Arjuna Madanayake, Len T. Bruton
11:20 – 11:40 AM	Implementing Simulation Models for Multi-and Many-core Processors Bogdan Vacaliuc, Barry K. Daniel, Jeremy S. Meredith, James N. Sumner, Jason A. Ellenburg
11:40 AM– 12:00 PM	Optimizing and Profiling the Processor-FPGA Interface Under Linux Shanly Rajan
12:00 – 12:20 PM	Mapping of Heterogeneous Instruments for Radio Astronomy Terry Filiba, Dan Werthimer
12:20 – 12:40 PM	Derivation of Low-Level ADC and Correlator Development Specifications From Telescope Level Specifications Paul Herselman
12:40 – 1:00 PM	A System Engineering Plan for ROACHx Warnich Rust
1:00-1:20 PM	Effective Testing in the CASPER Toolflow Paul Prozesky

Science Talk, Posters, and refreshments, 7:00 PM at the Science Center
	Astronomical Commissioning of the UBB at the Effelsberg 100m Ramesh Karuppusamy
	Focal Plane Array for the Effelsberg 100m Radio Telescope Pablo Torne Torres, M. Kramer, R. Keller
	Characterizing the Performance of a 5Gsps ADC for the SMA Digital Back End Nimesh Patel, Robert W. Wilson, Rurik Primiani, Jonathan Weintroub
	A New Digital Back-End for the Submillimeter Array Rurik A. Primiani, Jonathan Weintroub, Bob Wilson, Ken Young, Nimesh Patel
	ROACH Radar Backend Luis Quintero
	CYBORG: A ROACH-based Spectrometer for Education G. Langston
	One Summer, Three Spectrometers Kristin Barclay
	A Lab Spectrometer for Receiver Testing Andrew Duncan
	An RFI-tight Valon Synthesizer Enclosure for VEGAS J.D. Nelson, Jason Ray
	A Switching Signal Distribution System for VEGAS Randy McCullough

Friday, August 17

Session 8, 8:30 – 10:40 AM, Lincoln Greenhill, Chair
8:30 – 8:50 AM	Design and Development of an ROACH 2 Based Digital FX Correlator for the EOVSA Nimish Sane, Dale E. Gary, Gordon Hurford, Jim McTiernan, Gelu M. Nita
8:50 – 9:10 AM	Direct Imaging with BEST-2 Jack Hickish
9:10 – 9:30 AM	Digitizing AmiBA for CO Intensity Mapping Homin Jiang, C.T. Li, Kim Guzzino
9:30 – 9:50 AM	Development of FPGA Based Wide-Band Digital Backends for the Upgraded GMRT Kaushal Buch - Presented by Yashwant Gupta
9:50 – 10:10 AM	First Passive Radar Receiver Implementation with ROACH Laura Vertatschitsch, John Sahr
10:10 – 10:30 AM	A Low Cost Disciplined Sampling Clock Using the WWVB 60KHz Broadcast Bogdan Vacaliuc, James J. Nutaro, Daniel B. Koch, Benjamin E. Huey, Stephen Fulton Smith
10:30 – 10:50 AM	A New Flexible Backend for the Parkes 21cm Multibeam Receiver Danny Price

Session 9, 11:00 AM– 12:30 PM, Glenn Jones, Chair
11:10 – 11:30 AM	MeerKAT Digitiser Sias Malan
11:30 – 11:50 AM	MeerKAT Digitizer Phase and Gain Stability Henno Kriel
11:50 AM – 12:10 PM	ASIAA 10 Gsps ADC Board Development Kim Guzzino

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