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
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