SARA Western Conference Schedule
SARA Western Conference
March 22-24, 2019, UCAR Center Green, Boulder, CO
Conference Schedule
Time |
Activity/Title |
Presenter |
Location |
Friday, March 22nd |
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3:00 - 5:00 |
Tour of NCAR Mesa Labs |
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Saturday, March 23rd |
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8:00 – 9:00 |
Registration |
Dave Westman |
UCAR Center Green facility 3080 Center Green Dr Boulder, CO |
9:00 – 9:10 |
Introductions, etc. |
Ken Redcap |
" |
9:10 – 9:55 |
Keynote Speech |
Scott Mcintosh |
" |
10:00 – 10:45 |
Monitoring Low Frequency Propagation with a Software Defined Radio Receiver |
Whitham Reeve |
" |
10:45 – 11:00 |
Morning Break |
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" |
11:00 – 12:00 |
Milky Way Rotation Rate and Mass Estimation Using HI Measurements |
Richard A. Russel |
" |
12:00 – 1:10 |
Lunch |
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" |
1:10 – 1:55 |
Simultaneous and Associated Pulses Observed with Synchronized and Distant Radio Telescopes |
Skip Crilly |
" |
2:00 – 2:45 |
Preliminary Earth’s Orbital Position in the Milky Way using HI Measurements |
Richard A. Russel |
" |
2:45 – 3:00 |
Afternoon break |
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" |
3:00 – 3:45 |
The Little Thompson Observatory 21cm radio telescope |
Terry Bullett, et al. |
" |
3:45 – 4:30 |
SARA Board Meeting |
Ken Redcap |
" |
4:30 |
Adjourn |
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6:00 – 7:15 |
Dinner at Three Margaritas restaurant |
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2350 Main St, Longmont, CO |
7:30 - |
Tour of the Little Thompson Observatory |
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Little Thompson Observatory, Berthoud, CO |
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Sunday, March 24th |
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9:00 – 9:45 |
The Future of Radio Astronomy: The SKA and ngVLA |
Dayton Jones |
" |
9:45 – 10:30 |
Rebuilding Public-access astronomy in Puerto Rico |
Eric Muhs |
" |
10:30 – 11:00 |
Morning Break |
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11:00 – 11:45 |
Focal Plane Technology for Observational Cosmology |
Gene Hilton |
" |
11:45 – 12:45 |
Lunch |
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12:45 - 1:30 |
Improving the Low-Cost RTL-SDR 1420 MHz Receiver |
Hans Gaensbauer |
" |
1:30 - 2:15 |
Drift-scan imaging with the Plishner radiotelescope: Preliminary results |
Tony Bigbee |
" |
2:15-2:30 |
Afternoon break |
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2:30-2:45 |
Group Photo |
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In front of Conference Building |
2:45 – return about 1PM, Monday, March 25, 2019 |
Optional trip: depart for Plishner Radio Astronomy site (4 hour trip), with overnight in Haswell, CO vicinity. |
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Travel to Haswell, CO, return on Monday, March 25, 2019 |