Bonn LOFAR/SKA Focus Group Meeting 2009 Oct 27

                               ***  Tuesday October 27 ***
                               ***         16:00               ***

                                    Seminar room 3.25

Topics:

• Status of the Effelsberg LOFAR station and first results (J. Anderson, anderson_LOFAR_Status_Bonn.odp)
• Status of LOFAR rollout and commissioning (J. Anderson, see above and Wise-pipelines.pdf)
• Long baseline fringes Effelsberg - Exloo (O. Wucknitz, 2009_bonn_lofar_ska_fringes_pres.pdf)
• LOFAR Magnetism Key Science Project (R. Beck/J. Anderson)
• News from the International LOFAR Working Group (A. Zensus/R. Beck)
• News from the International SKA Steering Committee (A. Zensus)
• New SKA technical design and timeline (R. Beck)
• SKA Design Reference Mission (R. Beck)
• Forthcoming workshops and conferences

See also http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Square_kilometre_array

 For movies of the fringe plots from O. Wucknitz, or updated versions of the presentation, please see http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~wucknitz/publications/pub.php?2009_bonn_lofar_ska_fringes