Meeting Overview

	Day 1: Wednesday	Day 2: Thursday	Day 3: Friday
09.00 – 11.00	AA’s for this decade	System concept SKA1: AA-low	Technology Tradeoffs
11.00 – 11.30	Coffee	Coffee	Coffee
11.30 – 13.00	AA Pathfinders: guiding SKA design	AA Science driven technical requirements	AA Demonstrators - AAVS
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14.00 – 15.30	Science	AA Science driven technical requirements	Requirements Review and Next steps
15.30 – 16.00	Tea	Tea	Tea
16.00 – 18.00	Calibration and imaging	Technical aspects There is a Meeting of the European Science Group during this session (invitation only)
Evening	Drinks reception and poster session	Conference Dinner

Day 1: Wednesday, 8 December 2010

	AA’s for the this decade
09.00	Welcome and overview	Schilizzi	10
09.10	Towards SKA1	Schilizzi (Garrett)	10
09.20	PEP and SKA Programme	Schilizzi	15
09.35	SKA1 Science Requirements	Rawlings	25
10.00	AAVP overview	Van Ardenne	20
10.20	Design issues and implementation challenges	Alexander / Hall	25
10.45	HERA programme	Greenhill	15
11.00	Coffee		30
	AA Pathfinders: guiding SKA design	de Vos
11.30	PAPER latest results and lessons for SKA	Carilli	20
11.50	MWA latest results and lessons for SKA	Briggs	20
12.10	LOFAR latest results and lessons for SKA	de Vos	30
12.40	Discussion	Moderator: de Vos	20
13.00	Lunch		60
	Science	Scaife
14.00	Probing the epoch of reionization with multi-wavelength data sets	Jarvis	20
14.20	Pulsars observations with LOFAR	Hessels	20
14.40	SETI searches with SKA	Penny	15
15.00	Transients Science at Low Frequencies	Macquart	15
15.15	Does the SKA really need to achieve its high polarimetric purity (and sensitivity) spec?	Carozzi	15
15.30	Tea		30
	Calibration and imaging	Alexander
16.00	Overview of high dynamic range imaging issues	Alexander	15
16.15	Calibration and imaging requirements	Grainge	15
16.30	AA verification is essentially an EJones problem	Noordam	15
16.45	Redundancy calibration method in phased arrays	Noorishad	15
17.00	A Model Based Approach to LOFAR Calibration and Imaging	Wijnholds	15
17.15	Discussion	Moderator: Alexander	45
18.00	End of day
Evening	Drinks reception and poster session

	System concept SKA₁: AA-low		Hall
09.00	SKA1 system design		Cloete		15
09.15	From LOFAR design to SKA1 system		Gunst		20
09.35	Performance aspects of sparse, dense, regular and irregular array configurations		Bregman		15
09.50	Analysis of low frequency phased arrays		Razavi-Ghods		15
10.05	Optimisation of the AA-low system		Monari		15
10.20	SKA1 AA-low system design considerations		Faulkner		15
10.35	Discussion		Moderator: Hall		25
11.00	Coffee				30
	AA Science driven technical requirements		de Bruyn
11.30	Science with AAVP: HI emission/absorption		Morganti		15
11.45	TBD				15
11.50	Pulsars		Stappers		15
12.10	HI science through cosmic time		Pritchard		30
12.40	Probing the very first galaxies with the SKA		Santos		15
13.00	Lunch				60
	AA Science driven technical requirements		de Bruyn
14.00	The Epoch of Reionization and Phase 1		Koopmans		15
14.15	Magnetospheric Emissions from Extrasolar Planets		Lazio		15
14.30	Diffuse Polarization Imaging		de Bruyn		15
14.45	Discussion		Moderator: de Bruyn		45
15.30	Tea				30
	Technical Aspects	There is a Meeting of the European Science Group during this session (invitation only)		Vaate
16.00	Low Noise Amplifier for low frequency SKA		Bhaumik		15
16.15	Modelling & measurement of conical spiral antennas		Jiwani & Padhi		15
16.35	Fast Analog to Digital Converter developments		Gauffre		15
16.50	The D-PAD Sparse Aperture Array		Schediwy		15
17.00	Dense Aperture Array Antenna Design for SKA		Zhang		15
17.15	Antenna Design Study for AA-low 70-450 MHz		Virone		15
17.30	Aeff/Tsys evaluation for AA-low sensors		Perini		15
17.45	FFT Array		Zarb Adami		15
18.00	End of Day
Evening	Conference Dinner

	Technology Tradeoffs	Jones
09.00	AA design tradeoffs (low and mid)	Jones	20
09.20	AA-low a fresh look	Hall	15
09.35	AA-mid elements and arrays	Brown	15
09.50	AA software beamforming	AhmedSaid	15
10.05	Array antenna designs for the SKA-AA-low	Lera Acedo	15
10.20	Reconfigurable back end for low frequency array	Zarb Adami	15
10.35	Discussion	Moderator: Jones	25
11.00	Coffee		30
	AA Demonstrators - AAVS	van Ardenne
11.30	AAVS Schedule and requirement specs	Faulkner	20
11.50	AAVS-low and performance challenges	Vaate	30
12.20	AAVS-mid & electromagnetics	Kant	30
12.50	Discussion – performance and schedule	Moderator: van Ardenne	10
13.00	Lunch		60
	Requirements Review and Next steps	Van Driel
14.00	The SKA1 DRM discussion	Led by: Lazio	45
14.45	Summary, Conclusions and Actions	de Vos	30
15.15	Thank you and goodbye	Alexander	15
15.30	Tea		30
16.00	Conference Close