Announcement of the 4th RadioNet Engineering Forum Workshop:

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the RadioNet Engineering Forum Workshop "Next Generation Correlators for Radio Astronomy and Geodesy". The workshop will be held in June 2006 in the city of Groningen, The Netherlands, and will be hosted by JIVE, the Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe. This meeting is the fourth in a 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

The poster of the conference is available as a pdf file.

Workshop Objectives

The aim of the workshop is to review the current state-of-the-art in the field of correlator development, in an attempt to identify those technologies (including software, hardware and hybrid approaches) that might best address the requirements of future radio instruments, including the SKA and related SKA pathfinder projects. The meeting will bring together engineers and scientists from all over the world with an eye to fostering possible international collaborations. Since the use of off-the-shelf components is expected to continue to grow in this area of research, we specifically hope to attract the involvment of industrial partners during the event.

Programme

A preliminary programme can be found here, also in the form of a pdf file. Oral presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus a few minutes for discussion.

Topics will include:

Proceedings

Presentations will be made available via Internet on the RadioNet Web-pages and the EngineeringForum Wiki page.

Scientific Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee

Registration

Registration is now closed, the list of participants can be found here. There will be no registration fee but there will be a 50 euro workshop dinner fee, to be paid in cash at registration. The previous limit of approximately 60 attendees has been relaxed as the hotel has provided us with a larger conference room. Attendees who wish to give a presentation should send a title and abstract (100 words maximum) to dijk@jive.nl by 2006 April 30.

Accomodation and Venue

The workshop will be held at the NH Groningen Hotel, in Groningen, The Netherlands. The hotel has agreed to extend the previous block reservation and will offer a limited number of rooms at the reduced workshop rate until 2006 June 12. Attendees are responsible for their own hotel registration, which can be accomplished by filling out the hotel registration page.

Financial Assistance

Limited financial assistance will be provided by RadioNet for speakers and attendees with high travel cost. Please contact the chairman of the Engineering Forum, ReinhardKeller, for more information.

Deadlines

Please register as early as possible. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 30, 2006.

A limited number of hotel rooms at the reduced workshop rate will be reserved until 2006 June 12. Room availability after this date is not guaranteed.

Please do not hesitate to contact the LOC if you have any questions.

Contact

NH Hotel: Hanzeplein 132, 9713 GW Groningen, tel. +31505848181

't Feithhuis (venue of workshop dinner): Martinikerkhof 10, 9712 JG Groningen, tel. +31503135335

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