Science at Q Band - September 2009

A small 1-2 day workshop on science in the 30-50 GHz band.

Dates: 14 and 15 September 2009

Location:

Lovell Lecture Theatre, 3rd Floor, JBCA, Alan Turing Building, Manchester (about 15 min walk from Manchester Piccadilly station; there are frequent trains from Manchester Airport).
Directions

 

Local Information

More local information about travel, accommodation and places to eat and drink can be found here .

 

Workshop Goal

 

The goal of this workshop is to discuss the status and current and future instrumentation in the 30-50 GHz band which corresponds to ALMA band 1 and review and assess UK interest in science in this band. The science should cover both surveys using a new generation of imaging arrays (heterodyne and direct detection) on single dish telescopes and high resolution imaging. One desired outcome for the meeting will the science requirements for Q band imaging arrays to feed into the FP7 JRA APRICOT.

 

Questions to discuss and address

  • Status of current instrumentation in this band
  • Key science drivers for observations in this frequency band
  • Science requirements for imaging arrays in this band
  • What is the scope for synergies between ALMA (and eVLA)  and single dish surveys

Agenda

Invited talks are 30 min plus  min questions; contributed talks are 15 min plus 5 min questions.

Time
 Name
 Insititute
 Topic (click to retrieve presentation)
Monday   14 September
    
1030      Coffee
 1045 Gary Fuller  Manchester  Welcome and Introduction 
1100 Robert Laing (invited)
 ESO  Band 1 observations with ALMA
1135 Peter Wilkinson Manchester  An Introduction to Apricot
1155 Tasso Tziomis (invited)
CSIRO ATNF Q Band at ATNF
1230     Lunch
1400 Rick Perley (invited)
 NRAO Science with the EVLA at Ka and Q Bands
1435 Felix Lockman (invited)
 NRAO Q band science at the Green Bank Telescope
1510 Brian Mason
 NRAO MUSTANG and future bolometer cameras on the GBT
1530 Michael Peel
 Manchester  OCRA-F: an 8-beam One Centimeter Receiver Array
1550     Tea/Coffee
1605 Luigina Feretti (invited)
 INAF Clusters of galaxies and future studies with SRT
1640 Paola Caselli (invited)
 Leeds Galactic line science 
1715     Close of first day
Tuesday 15 September
    
0915     Coffee
0930 Karl Menten (invited)
 MPIfR Q-band molecular line astronomy with single dishes and interferometers
1010  James DiFrancesco (invited)
 NRC Galactic Science Cases for Q-Band
1045 Nick Tothill
 Exeter Diagnostics of Cyanopolyyne Chemistry in Massive Star Formation - 7mm spectroscopy at MOPRA
1105     Coffee
1125  Arturo Gomez Ruiz MPIfR  Class I methanol masers at 7 mm with the VLA
1145 Thomas Greve (invited)
 MPIfR
 Extragalactic line and continuum
1220 Ian Heywood
 Oxford The CO(1-0) line at high-z: observations and predictions for the EVLA and ALMA
1240     Lunch
1400 Tom Maccarone
 Southampton X-ray binaries with ALMA
 1420 Mark Birkinshaw (invited)
 Bristol SZ/CMB models
1455 Keith Grainge (invited)
 Cambridge  SZ/CMB - Observations at Q Band
1530 Michael Jones
 Oxford  Interferometric SZ observations at 30 to 250 GHz
1550     Tea
1610 Grazia Umana/John Richer
   Summary and Discussion
1640     Close of Meeting
     

 

 Register for the Workshop

 

To register for the workshop please use the form: Register for workshop

 

 

Participants should arrange their own accomodation; here are some suggestions:
Manchester Business School
Days Inn
Ibis

Manchester Tourist Information

 

For other questions please contact Gary Fuller (G.Fuller@manchester.ac.uk)

 

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