Busy Week III

POSSUM Busy Week III

Logistics

Dates: 10-14 December 2018

Location: ARRC building, 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington WA 6151 (Perth, Western Australia)

Map link: https://goo.gl/maps/qx9Yhgg44ys

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Topics

POSSUM's Busy Week I and Busy Week II were organised using google spreadsheets - see the corresponding wiki pages for details.

Tasks for this third POSSUM busy week are being organised in a new spreadsheet after having been discussed before the week begins:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1D3fAYgfSjQyxqrFxD4Wj6xd62Yl5lpHauYZnUdhslBQ/edit?usp=sharing
QUOCKA activities will be tracked separately.

Agenda

All times in AWST (UT+8)

This is a draft which is under active development

The POSSUM Busy Week schedule includes talks, discussion sessions, and focused work sessions.

DayTimeTopic
Monday 10 Dec9:00-9:30 Welcome and QUOCKA overview (George Heald)
 9:30-10:00 Discussion session: Plans for the day
 10:00-12:30 Busy Week Work Session (QUOCKA focus)
 12:30-13:30Lunch break
 13:30-16:00 Busy Week Work Session (QUOCKA focus)
 16:00-17:00 Discussion session: Daily wrapup and plans for the rest of the week
   
Tuesday 11 Dec9:00-9:30 ACES Update (Craig Anderson)
 9:30-10:00 Discussion session: Plans for the rest of the week
 10:00-10:30 Overview of ionospheric RM prediction and beam modeling (Tony Willis)
 10:30-12:30 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 12:30-13:30Lunch break
 13:30-16:30 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 16:30-17:00 Discussion session: Daily wrapup and plans for the rest of the week
 18:00-21:00Workshop dinner (location TBD)
   
Wednesday 12 Dec9:00-9:30 Discussion session: Plans for the day
 9:30-10:00 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 10:00-11:00 Discussion session (with Daniel Mitchell): Ionospheric RM corrections in ASKAPsoft
 11:00-12:00 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 12:00-13:00 ATNF Colloquium (Jennifer West)
 13:00-14:00Lunch break
 14:00-16:30 Busy Week Work Session (QUOCKA focus)
 16:30-17:00 Discussion session: Daily wrapup and plans for the rest of the week
   
Thursday 13 Dec9:00-9:30 Discussion session: Plans for the day
 9:30-12:30 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 12:30-13:30Lunch break
 13:30-14:00 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 14:00-14:30Tour of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
 14:30-16:00 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 16:00-16:30 Discussion session: POSSUM Pilot Survey Group
 16:30-17:00 Discussion session: Daily wrapup and plans for the rest of the week
   
Friday 14 Dec9:00-9:30 Discussion session: Plans for the day
 9:30-12:30 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 12:30-13:30Lunch break
 13:30-16:00 Busy Week Work Session (POSSUM focus)
 16:00-17:00 Discussion session: Busy week wrapup

Attendees

Group photos:
At the ARRC (courtesy of Charlotte Sobey):

On zoom (courtesy of Charlotte Sobey):

Another at the ARRC (courtesy of Jane Kaczmarek and her phone's surprisingly good camera):\\

  • In person
    • Craig Anderson
    • Tim Galvin
    • George Heald
    • Jane Kaczmarek
    • Naomi McClure-Griffiths (first half of week)
    • Philippa Patterson
    • Wasim Raja
    • Chris Riseley
    • Charlotte Sobey
    • Alec Thomson
    • Tessa Vernstrom
    • Jennifer West
    • Tony Willis
    • ...
  • Remotely
    • Bryan Gaensler (first 3 hours, except Thursday)
    • Daniel Mitchell (Wednesday morning discussion session)
    • Yoshimitsu Miyashita
    • Alice Pasetto
    • Jeroen Stil (morning discussions, except Friday)
    • Cameron Van Eck (morning discussions)
    • Shannon Vanderwoude (morning discussions)
    • ...

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