Information and registration: http://www.radionet-eu.org/rnwiki/DigitalBackendImplementationRegistrationForm

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the RadioNet Engineering Forum Workshop "Digital Backend Implementation: Software vs. Hardware". The workshop will be held on 23. Juni 2008 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn. This meeting is the seventh in the series of the engineering workshops sponsored and organized by the EU Consortium RadioNet within the Sixth Framework Program of the European Commission.

For information on the Radionet Engineering Forum see http://www.radionet-eu.org/na/na4.php

WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES

This seventh meeting in Bonn is aimed at bringing together digital engineers who are working in the field of digital backends or backend related postprocessing and who are involved in the design of current and future projects in this area. The workshop should set the stage for sharing the diverse and high-level expertise within the Radio Astronomy Institutes. It should help isolate common technical challenges and pre-existing solutions, encourage collaboration and collaborative projects, and the shared information could reduce costs. Everybody is asked to present his interesting work in an oral or poster presentation.

PROGRAM OF THE WORKSHOP

The meeting will be informal and should offer lots of time for discussions. Each presentation is limited to a maximum of about 30 minutes with an additional 15 minutes for discussion. Potential Speakers are asked to send a short abstract in advance that will be made available as a workshop worksheet.

Start of workshop: 9:00 End of workshop: 17:00

followed by a reception with more opportunities for discussions, etc.

Workshop dinner sponsored by Radionet: 20:00

We plan to organise a trip to the Effelsberg Observatory (http://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/radioteleskop/index.html) on Tuesday, 24. June. The trip duration should be around 4 hours (9am - 1pm) We plan to be back in Bonn for lunch. Please use one of the column in the registration form to tell us if you would like to participate in this tour.

For an up-to-date version see: http://www.radionet-eu.org/rnwiki/DigitalBackendImplementation

A preliminary list of topics include:

PROCEEDINGS

The presentations will be made available via Internet.

REGISTRATION AND ACCOMMODATION

Registration and hotel booking requests can be made using the online form at the workshop Wiki-site:

Please register until 1 Mai 2008 !

Both registration and allocation of the hotel rooms will be made on the first come first served basis. Block bookings have been made for the participants in a hotel in Bonn - these bookings will be held until 1. May 2008. After this date, the bookings can only be made on individual basis and at the price at that time.

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

Limited financial assistance will be provided for speakers. Please contact the chairman of the Engineering Forum, Reinhard Keller, <rkeller@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> for more information.

DEADLINES

Mai 1: Registration and Hotel booking (room availability cannot be guaranteed

May 15: Deadline for the Abstracts

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