Name: MWA Virtual Project Meeting - June 2021
Start: 2021-06-22T08:00:00+08:00
End: 2021-06-23T15:20:00+08:00
Location: No location set

MWA Virtual Project Meeting - June 2021

from Tuesday, 22 June 2021 (08:00) to Wednesday, 23 June 2021 (15:20)

Monday, 21 June 2021
Tuesday, 22 June 2021
08:00 Welcome - Day 1
Welcome - Day 1
08:00 - 09:00
Contributions

08:00 Welcome by MWA Board Chair - Stuart Wyithe

08:10 Director's Report - Steven J. Tingay (Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy)

08:40 Principal Engineer Update - Randall Wayth (Curtin University)
09:00 Upgrades & Updates
Upgrades & Updates
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 MWAX Update - Ian Morrison (ICRAR/Curtin) Brian Crosse (Curtin)

09:20 MWA ASVO and Archive Update - Greg Sleap (Curtin University/Murchison Widefield Array) Harrison Barlow

09:40 Telescope Monitor & Control - Andrew Williams (MWA Telescope)
10:00 Coffee
Coffee
10:00 - 10:20
10:20 Upgrades & Updates
Upgrades & Updates
10:20 - 11:00
Contributions

10:20 Verifying the proposed signal processing architecture for future MWA upgrades - Jake Jones (ICRAR - Curtin University)

10:40 Site Update - Andrew McPhail
11:00 Discussion
Discussion
11:00 - 11:30

11:30 Lunch
Lunch
11:30 - 12:30
12:30 EoR
EoR
12:30 - 14:30
Contributions

12:30 EoR Update - Cathryn Trott (ICRAR - Curtin University)

12:50 hyperdrive: New MWA calibration software - Christopher Jordan (Curtin University )

13:10 159MHz Spherical Harmonic Diffuse Southern Sky Map Created with the Engineering Development Array (EDA2) - Mike Kriele (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Curtin University; ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions; Eindhoven University of Technology)

13:30 Ionospheric effects on MWA Epoch of Reionisation observations. - Kariuki Chege (Curtin University)

13:50 The Long Baseline Epoch of Reionisation Survey -- Improved models for MWA EoR0 Field - Christene Lynch (ICRAR-Curtin/ASTRO3D)

14:10 MWA Japan Science Update - Shintaro Yoshiura (NAOJ)
Wednesday, 23 June 2021
08:00 Welcome - Day 2
Welcome - Day 2
08:00 - 08:20
Contributions

08:00 Principal Scientist Update - Christopher Riseley (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna) Benjamin McKinley (Curtin University)
08:20 GEG
GEG
08:20 - 09:50
Contributions

08:20 GEG Update - Chenoa Tremblay (CSIRO)

08:40 GLEAM-X Update - Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin / ICRAR) Xiang Zhang (CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science)

09:10 The GLEAMing of the first supermassive black holes: a combined MWA/LOFAR study to constrain low-frequency spectral turnover - Jess Broderick (ICRAR/Curtin)

09:30 Synchrofit: a python-based synchrotron spectral fitting code - Benjamin Quici (Curtin University for Radio Astronomy (CIRA))
09:50 Coffee
Coffee
09:50 - 10:10
10:10 Transients
Transients
10:10 - 11:10
Contributions

10:10 Transients Update - Paul Hancock

10:30 Space Surveillance Using the Murchison Wide-field Array - Steve Prabu (Curtin University)

10:50 SETI Opportunities with the MWA - Danny Price (ICRAR/Curtin)
11:10 VCS
VCS
11:10 - 12:10
Contributions

11:10 VCS Update - Ramesh Bhat (Dr)

11:30 Pulsar polarimetry with the MWA - Sam McSweeney (CIRA, Curtin University)

11:50 The Southern-sky MWA Rapid Two-metre (SMART) pulsar survey. First discoveries and the low-frequency pulsar population - Nicholas Swainston (Curtin University)
12:10 Lunch
Lunch
12:10 - 13:10
13:10 SHI
SHI
13:10 - 14:30
Contributions

13:10 Solar Update - Divya Oberoi (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune India)

13:30 Insights from snapshot spectroscopic radio observations of a weak Type I solar noise storm - Surajit Mondal (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)

13:50 Imaging of weak impulsive solar emissions using residual visibilities - Rohit Sharma (University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland)

14:10 IPS and Ionospheric Scintillation measurements with the MWA - John Morgan
14:30 Wrap Up
Wrap Up
14:30 - 14:40
Contributions

14:30 Wrap Up - Steven J. Tingay (Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy)