2015 SARA Tentative Conference Schedule
Day | Time | Speaker | Title |
Sunday | 12:00 PM | Gary Memory | Registration- Jansky Lab |
21 June | 12:30 PM | Ed Harfmann, Charles Osborne | Radio Astronomy Beginner Session |
3:00 PM | Carl Lyster | 40 Ft. Radio Telescope Workshop | |
5:15 PM | Dinner NRAO Cafeteria | ||
6:30 PM | Set Up Outside Experiments | ||
Sunday | 8:00 PM | Social at Drake Lounge, pre-amp noise figure testing by Charles Osborne | |
Monday | 7:45 AM | Breakfast in NRAO Cafeteria | |
22 June | 9:00 AM | Tom Hagen, VP | Introductions and Opening Remarks |
9:15 AM | Ken Redcap, President | SARA Announcements | |
9:30 AM | Steve Tzikas | New SARA Sections | |
10:15 PM | Coffee Break and Poster Session | ||
10:30 AM | Charles Osborne | The Biggest Offset Dish In the World. The NRAO 100 Meter | |
11:10 AM | Ken Redcap | 611 MHz Total Power Radio Telescope - Part 0x03 (Software) | |
11:50 AM | Paul Oxley | Using RASDR Viewer for Pulsar Observations | |
12:30 PM | Lunch NRAO Cafeteria | ||
1:30 PM | Ken Redcap | Call for Nominations | |
2:00 PM | Prof. Duncan Lorimer; Keynote Address | Pulsars, flickers and cosmic flashes: the transient radio universe | |
2:40 PM | Coffee Break and Poster Session | ||
2:55 PM | Ciprian Sufitchi | Detecting meteor radio echoes using the RTL/SDR USB dongle | |
3:40 PM | Tom Hagen | Portable VLF Receiver for Making Calibrated Magnetic Field Strength Measurements | |
4:20 PM | Skip Crilly | Shannon Entropy Measurements of Radio Telescope Signals | |
5:15 PM | Dinner at the NRAO Cafeteria | ||
6:15PM | Flea Market in Dorm Parking Lot | ||
6:15 PM | Setup Outside Experiments | ||
7:00 PM | SARA Board of Directors Meeting | ||
Monday | 8:00 PM | Social at Drake Lounge, pre-amp noise figure testing by Charles Osborne | |
Tuesday | 7:45 AM | Breakfast at NRAO Cafeteria | |
23 June | 9:00 AM | Ken Redcap | Elections |
9:30 AM | Ken Redcap | Business Meeting | |
10:00 AM | Coffee Break and Poster Session | ||
10:15 AM | Jay Wilson | Developing a Radio Astronomy Program For Community Observatories | |
11:10 AM | Dr. J. Wayne McCain, Kevin Keenan | SARA/JOVE Activities In a College-Level, Management of Technology (MOT) Curriculum | |
11:40 AM | Carl Lyster | SpectraCyber Demonstration (Outside) | |
12:30 PM | Lunch NRAO Cafeteria | ||
1:30 PM | Group Picture | ||
1:45 PM | Sue Ann Heatherly | NRAO High-Tech Tour | |
3:15 PM | Snack Break and Poster Session | ||
3:30 PM | David Fields | Small-Antenna Radio Astronomy with RASDR2 | |
4:10 PM | Various | Open Mic Session | |
5:00 PM | Tom Hagen, VP | 2016 Conference Plans | |
5:15 PM | Dinner at NRAO Cafeteria | ||
06:15 PM | Setup outside experiments | ||
Tuesday | 08:00 PM | Social in Drake Lounge | |
Wednesday | 07:45 AM | Breakfast in NRAO Cafeteria | |
6/24/2015 | 09:00 AM | Conference Ends |