Name: 2020 MWA Virtual Project Meeting
Start: 2020-07-15T08:00:00+08:00
End: 2020-07-17T15:00:00+08:00
Location: No location set

2020 MWA Virtual Project Meeting

from Wednesday, 15 July 2020 (08:00) to Friday, 17 July 2020 (15:00)

Monday, 13 July 2020
Tuesday, 14 July 2020
Wednesday, 15 July 2020

08:00 Board Meeting
Board Meeting
08:00 - 10:00

10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20

10:20 Board Meeting
Board Meeting
10:20 - 12:00

12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00

13:00 Board Meeting
Board Meeting
13:00 - 15:00
Thursday, 16 July 2020
08:00 Welcome
Welcome
08:00 - 08:40
Contributions

08:00 Welcome by MWA Board Chair - Stuart Wyithe

08:10 MWA Director's Report - Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (ICRAR/Curtin)

08:30 Principal Scientist's Update - Adam Beardsley
08:40 EoR
EoR
08:40 - 10:00
Contributions

08:40 Multi-redshift upper limits on the signal from the Epoch of Reionisation using the Murchison Widefield Array - Cathryn Trott (ICRAR - Curtin University)

09:00 A Unified Calibration Framework for 21 cm Cosmology - Ruby Byrne (University of Washington)

09:20 Measuring MWA Beam Shapes Using Satellites - Aman Chokshi (University of Melbourne)

09:40 WODEN: An MWA specific GPU simulation code - Jack Line (ICRAR Curtin University)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 SHI
SHI
10:20 - 12:00
Contributions

10:20 SHI Update - Divya Oberoi (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune India)

10:40 The MWA IPS Phase-II Survey - John Morgan

11:00 First radio evidence for impulsive heating of the quiet solar corona - Surajit Mondal (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)

11:20 Probing fine spatial, temporal and spectral structures of the Sun - Rohit Sharma (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)

11:40 Solar flux density calibration with in-field sources for MWA solar observation - Devojyoti Kansabanik (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics - Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Pune, India)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 GEG
GEG
13:00 - 15:20
Contributions

13:00 GEG Update - Chenoa Tremblay

13:20 An MWA Phase II follow up of diffuse, non-thermal radio emission in galaxy clusters - Stefan Duchesne (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University)

13:40 Dying radio galaxies as seen by MWA, ASKAP and ATCA - Benjamin Quici (Curtin University for Radio Astronomy (CIRA))

14:00 Centaurus A like you have never seen it before - Benjamin McKinley

14:20 All-sky results from the POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS) - Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna)

14:40 An update on the GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) Sample - Sarah White (SARAO - Rhodes University)

15:00 Unexpected Spectral Variability at Low Frequencies - Kathryn Ross
Friday, 17 July 2020
08:00 Upgrades
Upgrades
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 MWA data life cycle and future plans - Greg Sleap (Curtin)

08:20 Phase III Overview - Mia Walker (MWA)

08:40 MWAX - New MWA correlator update and capabilities - Brian Crosse (Curtin)
09:00 Phase III Discussion
Phase III Discussion
09:00 - 10:00

10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 Updates
Updates
10:20 - 11:20
Contributions

10:20 Site Activity Update - Andrew McPhail

10:40 Getting the MWA to produce the data you want - Andrew Williams (MWA Telescope)

11:00 Calibration database for the MWA ASVO - Marcin Sokolowski (Curtin University)
11:20 Transients
Transients
11:20 - 12:00
Contributions

11:20 Transients Update - Paul Hancock

11:40 Looking for cosmic rays with the MWA at 15ns time resolution - Alexander Williamson (Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy)
12:00 Lunch
Lunch
12:00 - 13:00
13:00 Transients
Transients
13:00 - 13:20
Contributions

13:00 Introduction of SHAO Transient Pipeline (STEP) - Zhijun Xu
13:20 VCS
VCS
13:20 - 14:40
Contributions

13:20 VCS science update - Ramesh Bhat (Ramesh)

13:40 Frequency-dependent polarisation in high time resolution studies of PSR B0031-07's single pulses - Sam McSweeney (CIRA, Curtin University)

14:00 Dispersion measure investigation towards millisecond pulsars with the MWA - Dilpreet Kaur (Curtin University-ICRAR)

14:20 MWA-VCS pulsar search and beamforming on CSKAP - Zhongli Zhang
14:40 Wrap-up
Wrap-up
14:40 - 15:00