PAFAR Workshop Presentation Files

Day 1  Tuesday, November 15, 2022  
8:30 – 9:15 AM  Registration, Tea & Coffee  
9:15 – 9:20 AM House Keeping Steve Barker
9:20 – 9:30 AM Welcome Tasso Tzioumis
Session 1:  Chair: Mark Bowen  
*9:30 – 10:10 AM The Development of Focal Plane Arrays in Radio Astronomy PDF   Ekers, R.
10:10 – 10:30 AM The LOFAR2.0 upgrade PDF Cappellen, W.
10:30 – 10:50 AM ALPACA: The Advanced L-band Phased Array Camera for Astronomy PDF MP4 Burnett, M.
10:50 – 11:10 AM Break  
Session 2:  Chair: Stephanie Smith  
11:10 – 11:30 AM Overview and outlook of space surveillance systems at Fraunhofer FHR PDF MP4 Froehlich, A.
11:30 – 11:50 AM ASKAP’s primary beams and their measurement PDF MP4 McConnell, D.
11:50 – 12:10 PM A Cryogenic Phased Array Receiver for the Parkes Radio Telescope PDF MP4 Dunning, A.
12:10 – 12:30 PM First generation Cryo-PAF for Effelsberg PDF MP4 Heyminck, S.
12:30 – 1:20 PM Lunch  
Session 3:  Chair: Gundolf Wieching  
1:20 – 1:40 PM Preliminary Design of a Room Temperature C-band Phased Array Feed Prototype with Digital Back-end Based on RFSoC PDF MP4 Pisanu, T.
1:40 – 2:00 PM CryoPAF Cold Front-End Design PDF MP4 Pütz, P.
2:00 – 2:20 PM A High-Speed All-Sky Monitor for Fast Radio Bursts and Technosignatures PDF MP4 Sokołowski, M.
2:20 – 2:40 PM A Vivaldi Based Cryogenic Phased Array Feed  McCulloch, M.
2:40 – 3:00 PM Break  
Session 4:  Chair: Mitch Burnett  
3:00 – 3:20 PM Phased Array Feed Calibration Systems at CSIRO PDF MP4 Chippendale, A.
3:20 – 3:40 PM Experimental Focal Plane Array Beamforming for the Expanded GMRT PDF MP4 Buch, K.
3:40 – 4:00 PM The EDD Backend System PDF MP4 Barr, E.D.
4:00 – 4:20 PM System Design for the Effelsberg CryoPAF Backend PDF MP4 Esser, N.
4:20 – 4:50 PM Open Forum  
4:50 PM End of Day 1 Sessions  

Day 2  Wednesday, November 16, 2022  
8:30 – 9:05 AM  Tea & Coffee  
9:05 – 9:10 AM House Keeping Steve Barker
Session 5:  Chair: Wim Van Cappellen  
9:10 – 9:50 AM SKA-Low Project Status  MP4 -1  MP4 – 2 MP4 – 3   Angela Teale
9:50 – 10:10 AM Computing embedded element patterns for SKA-Low prototype stations AAVS2 and AAVS3 PDF MP4 Davidson, D.
10:10 – 10:30 AM Calibration and direct validation of station embedded element patterns for SKA-Low prototype stations AAVS2 and EDA2 PDF MP4 Wayth, R.
10:30 – 10:50 AM Validation of the obtained mutual coupling impedance matrix from CST model of two element array PDF MP4 Mohamadzade, B.
10:50 – 11:10 AM Break  
Session 6:  Chair: Keith Grainge  
11:10 – 11:30 AM Design Challenges of Highly Integrated RF Electronics for Astronomical Receivers PDF MP4 Nalbach, M.
11:30 – 11:50 AM pHEMT Characterisation and Small Signal Equivalent Circuit Extraction from 4 K to 290 K PDF MP4 Jiang, L.
11:50 – 12:10 PM LNAs for Highly Integrated Receivers  MP4  McGenn, W.
12:10 – 12:30 PM Automation of Low Noise Amplifier Measurements with the CryoMe Software Package PDF MP4 Franks, E.
12:30 – 1:20 PM Lunch  
Session 7:  Chair: Aaron Chippendale  
1:20 – 1:40 PM * Building the Cryogenic Front-end for the Advanced L-band Phased Array Camera for Astronomy PDF MP4 Vishwas, A.
1:40 – 2:00 PM Introducing “CNIC” – Enabling SKA Low Realtime In-System Testing PDF MP4 Hampson, G.
2:00 – 2:20 PM Next generation digitiser for MeerKAT PDF MP4 Malan, J.
2:20 – 2:40 PM Applications of an RFSOC based Digitiser to Digital Receiver Systems PDF MP4 Roberts, P.
2:40 – 3:00 PM Break  
Session 8:  Chair: Tasso Tzioumis  
3:00 – 3:20 PM The Bifrost Stream Processing Framework PDF PDF Price, D.
3:20 – 3:40 PM The universal EDD frontend system PDF MP4 Kasemann, C.
3:40 – 4:00 PM * A combination of PAF and spherical reflector to obtain large FoV PDF MP4 Chengjin, J.
4:00 – 4:20 PM Phased-Array adaptive beam-forming using Deep-Learning Techniques PDF MP4 Cabras, A.
4:20 – 4:50 PM Open Forum MP4  
4:50 PM End of Day 2 Sessions  

Day 3  Thursday, November 17, 2022
8:30 – 9:05 AM  Tea & Coffee  
9:05 – 9:10 AM House Keeping Steve Barker
Session 9: Chair: Ken Smart  
9:10 – 9:50 AM Commercializing cryoPAF technology PDF  Boers, M.
9:50 – 10:40 AM CryoPAF/Marsfield Tour  
10:40 – 11:00 AM Break  
Session 10: Chair: Doug Hayman  
11:00 – 11:30 AM On-sky testing of the C-band cryoPAF: Pharos2 PDF MP4 D’Cruze, M
11:30 – 11:50 AM Results from the LOFAR2.0 Dwingeloo Test Station PDF MP4 Hut, B.
11:50 – 12:10 PM An HLS-based beamformer using Xilinx Alveo Card PDF MP4 Men, Y.
12:10 – 12:30 PM    
12:30 – 1:20 PM Lunch  
Session 11: Chair: Jason Van Aardt  
1:20 – 1:40 PM RFI-mitigation using a PAF PDF MP4 Heyminck, S.
1:40 – 2:00 PM Mitigation of self-generated interference with ASKAP PAF PDF MP4 Lourenço, L.
2:00 – 2:20 PM RFI studies using the Parkes ultra-wide bandwidth receiver and implications for future instruments PDF MP4 Hobbs, G.
2:20 – 2:40 PM An EMI-shielded Module for the Parkes Cryo-PAF RFSoC Digitizers PDF MP4 Roush, P.
2:40 – 3:00 PM Break  
Session 12: Chair: Alex Dunning  
3:00 – 3:20 PM TNRT’s Receiver Development and plan for PAF PDF MP4 Singwong, D.
3:20 – 3:40 PM Phased Array Feed (PAF) Demonstrator for TNRT PDF MP4 Bandudej, K.
3:40 – 4:10 PM * A Real-Time Imaging Correlator for Compact Arrays PDF MP4 Krishnan, H.
4:10 – 4:30 PM Open Forum PAFAR2022 Wrapup MP4  
4:10 PM Workshop Close