SARA March 17-19, 2017 Western Conference Schedule

Time

Activity/Title

Presenter

Location

Friday, March 17th

8:00 – 9:00

Registration, Breakfast

Dave Westman

DSOC Auditorium

9:00 – 9:15

Introductions, etc.

Ken Redcap

"

9:15 – 10:00

Welcoming Speech

JVLA Asst. Director

"

10:00 – 10:45

VLA Sky Survey

Steve Meyers, VLA Staff

"

10:45 – 11:00

Morning Break

"

11:00 – 12:00

VLA Colloquium (Pulsars)

Kevin Stovall (NRAO)

"

12:00 – 1:00

Lunch

"

1:00 – 1:45

Introduction to Radio Astronomy

Ed Harfmann

"

1:45 – 2:30

Pulsar Observations at 1400 MHz using the Forty Foot Telescope at the Green Bank Observatory

Skip Crilly

"

2:30 – 3:00

Afternoon break

"

3:00 – 3:45

Amateur Radio Astronomy

“Five Projects”

Dr. Alex Vrenios

"

3:45 – 4:30

SARA Board Meeting

Ken Redcap

"

4:30

Adjourn

6:00 -

Dinner at restaurant

(Restaurant has not been decided yet)

Saturday, March 18th

8:30 – 9:00

Breakfast

DSOC Conference Room

9:00 – 9:45

SAM-III magnetometer commissioning

Keith Payea

"

9:45 – 10:30

Receiver Stability Analysis

Whit Reeve

"

10:30 – 11:00

Morning Break

"

11:00 – 11:45

Radio Astronomy CubeSats

Wayne McCain

"

11:45 – 12:45

Lunch

"

12:45 - 1:30

Instrumentation Section Report - RASDR

Bogdan Vacaliuc

"

1:30 - 2:15

A 21cm Band Downconverter System

Stuart Rumley

"

2:15 – 2:30

Group Photo

2:30 - 3:15

LWA Update

Greg Taylor, LWA

"

3:15-4:45

Deep Space Exploration Society Papers

Richard Russel,  David Molter, and

Bill Miller

"

Sunday, March 19th

10:00 AM

Arrive at VLA for tour of VLA and LWA Site 1

Dave Westman, Lory Wingate

VLA Site

12:00 PM

Lunch

VLA Site

1:00 PM

Continue with tour of VLA and LWA Site 1

Dave Westman, Lory Wingate

VLA Site