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Announcement of the RadioNet Engineering Forum Workshop
DIGITAL BACKENDS
- 6 September 2004
- followed by a meeting of the
- EVN digital BBC working group on 7 September
- Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy, Bonn, Germany
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the RadioNet Engineering Forum Workshop "DIGITAL BACKENDS". The workshop will be held on 6 September at the Max-Planck-Institute for Radioastronomy in Bonn. This meeting is the first one 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/n4.html and http://www.radionet-eu.org/RNwiki
WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES
This first meeting in Bonn is aimed at bringing together digital engineers who are working in the field of digital backends 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.
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.
Start of workshop: 9:00
Speakers (preliminary):
- Edward Frey RF Engines, Hans Hinteregger MIT Haystack, Bernd Klein MPIfR, Christian Monstein ETH Zuerich, Stephan Stanko Univ. Bonn, Mark Torres IRAM, Gino Tuccari INAF.
End of workshop: 17:00
followed by a reception with more opportunities for discussions, etc.
Workshop dinner sponsored by Radionet: 20:00
For an up-to-date version see: http://www.radionet-eu.org/RNwiki/EngineeringForumMeetings
A preliminary list of topics include:
- Digital Base-band Converters for VLBI
- Fourier Transform Spectrometers
- High-speed analog-to-digital converter (sampler)
- Digital Signal Processing using FPGA chips
- Digital signal processing with software solutions
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:
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 three different hotels in Bonn - these bookings will be held until August 15. 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.
EXTENDED DEADLINES
August 15: Hotel booking (room availability cannot be guaranteed
- after this date).
August 29: Registration.
R. Keller, Bonn August 4, 2004.