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CASPER Workshop III (September 28 - October 2, 2009) lectures

Monday, September 28:

1. Minister of Science and Technology : Inaugural welcome/presentation
2. Dan Werthimer: CASPER Collaboration, Religion and Philosophy m4v PPT
3. Justin Jonas: Meerkat Telescope m4v PPT
4. Wallace Turner: Signal Processing Requirements for the SKA PPT
5. Andrew Siemion: Exploration of Fast-Transient Phenomena with High Performance Computing PDF

Next generation RA Digital Backends (chair: Dan Werthimer)

1. John Bunton: ASKAP Beamformer m4v PPT
2. B. Ajithkumar : "Digital backends for the GMRT upgrade" m4v PDF PPT
3. Andy Faulkner: Aperture Array Station Processing m4v PPT
4. Matthew Bailes: A high resolution Pulsar Survey with the (mult)iBOB m4v PPT
5. Alan Langman: MeerKAT DBE: Past, Present and Future m4v PPT

Tuesday, September 29:

CASPER applications (chair: Justin Jonas)

1. Jason Manley: Scalable Packetised Correlators m4v PPT
2. Aaron Parsons: The PAPER Correlator: Past and Future m4v PPT
3. Terry Filiba: Packetised Astronomy Signal Processor m4v PDF
4. Laura Spitler: SERENDIP V and VI: Employing BEE2 and ROACH in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence at the Arecibo Observatory m4v PPT
5. Jonathan Weintroub: Submillimeter VLBI: Imaging an Event Horizon m4v Keynote Tarball
6. Rurik A. Primiani: A VLBI Phased-Array Processor for the SMA using iBOB and BEE2 m4v PDF
7. John Ford: CASPER instruments at Green Bank. PDF PPT

Hardware and Low Level Tools (chair: Mike Inggs)

1. Francois Kapp: ROACH Development m4v PDF
2. Eric Koostra: UniBoard m4v PDF
3. Dan Werthimer: Digitisation (current and future ADCs) m4v PPT
4. Homin Jiang: 5 GSPS ADC Board Development m4v PPT
5. Brandon Hamilton: Porting BORPH to ROACH m4v PPT
6. Shanly Rajan: Automated Gateware Discovery Using Open Firmware m4v PPT

Wednesday, September 30:

CASPER Instruments I (chair: Aaron Parsons)

1. Matthew Bailes: Pulsar coherent dedispersion using various backends: CPSR1, CPSR2, CABB, iBOB. PPT
2. Griffin Foster: Pocket Correlators m4v PDF
3. Nimish Sane: Integrating Dataflow Modeling with the CASPER Toolflow for Design and Implementation of Tunable Digital Downconverter m4v PPT
4. Y. Gupta: "A software back-end for the GMRT : towards hybrid correlators" m4v PPT
5. Ismael Cognard: Real-Time Pulsar Timing Signal Processing on GPUs m4v PDF
6. Matthew Stevenson: A New Polarimeter for the OVRO 40m Telescope. PPT
7. Jack Hickish: Beamforming and Calibration with CASPER m4v PPT

CASPER instruments II (chair: Yashwant Gupta)

1. Richard Armstrong: Some Design and Calibration Considerations for Dense Aperture Arrays m4v PPT
2. Danny Price: Correlator Architectures and Station-Level Calibration m4v PPT
3. Billy Mallard: Infrared Astronomy with Radio Instrumentation
4. Loren Swenson: Progress in fast, sensitive, high-resolution imaging utilizing frequency-multiplexed, superconducting resonators m4v PDF
5. John Bunton SPDO spectrometer

Thursday, October 1:

Workshop Discussion Topic Introductions

1. Panel introduction (Francois): Next generation hardware platform (ROACH II + ADC) PDF PPT
2. Panel introduction (Aaron): Library and Toolflow Development
3. Panel introduction (Jason): Correlators / Beamformers
4. Panel introduction (Andrew S.): Pulsar machines / Transient detectors PDF
5. Panel introduction (Dan): How Best to Collaborate
6. Panel introduction (Yashwant): Hybrid Computing PPT
7. Panel introduction (Jonathan): Advisory Board PDF

CASPER Workshop II (August 2-5, 2008) lectures

CASPER Promo Video '08

Saturday, August 2:

1. Dan Werthimer: Rapid Development of Radio Astronomy Instrumentation using general purpose open source FPGA boards, tools & libraries. Camtasia Divx PDF ATA Video
2. Andrew Siemion and Mark Wagner: An Introduction to Simulink and CASPER Instrument Design. Camtasia Divx IBOB bitstream
3. Hayden Kwok-Hay So: Introduction to BORPH. Camtasia Divx PDF
4. Billy Mallard: Interacting with CASPER Instruments. Camtasia Divx
5. Mike Memmott: Fujitsu 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches. Camtasia Divx PDF

Sunday, August 3:

1. Henry Chen: CASPER Tools FAQ - The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash. Camtasia Divx PDF
2. Dan Werthimer: CASPER Hardware - Old, New and Future. Camtasia Divx PDF
3. Francois Kapp: An Introduction to ROACH. Camtasia Divx PDF
4. Terry Filiba: Version 10.1 Xilinx Tools Update. Camtasia Divx PDF
5. Glenn Jones: CASPER Development for GAVRT at Caltech. Camtasia Divx PDF
6. Laura Spitler: SETI Spectrometer Development for ALFA. Camtasia Divx PDF
7. Alan Langman: Road to MeerKAT KAT-7 DBE. Camtasia Divx PDF MeerKAT Video

Monday, August 4:

1. Bob Conn: BabyBEE - Defining the Silicon Circuit Board. Camtasia Divx PDF
2. Jason Manley: Scalable Packetized Correlators. Camtasia Divx PDF
3. Mel Wright: Correlation Imaging. Camtasia Divx PDF
4. Joeri van Leeuwen: CASPER Pulsar Instruments. Camtasia Divx PDF
5. Griffin Foster: The Fly's Eye - A Search for HERPES using the ATA. Camtasia Divx PDF
6. Tim Bastian and Zhiwei Liu: Frequency Agile Solar Radio Telescope. Camtasia Divx PDF
7. Oren Milgrome: ATA Beamformer. Camtasia Divx

Tuesday, August 5:

1. Tom Kuiper: Signal Processing Ambitions for DSN Radio Astronomy. Camtasia Divx PPT
2. Bernd Klein: Broadband FFT Spectrometer. Camtasia Divx PPT
3. John Ford: CICADA Project. Camtasia Divx PPT
4. Peter McMahon: Pulsar Instrumentation using CASPER Technology. Camtasia Divx PDF
5. Yashwant Gupta: The GMRT - Current Status and Upgrade Plans. Camtasia Divx PPT
6. Ed Wishnow: Infrared Spatial Interferometer. Camtasia Divx PPT
7. Dan Werthimer: Is Anbody Out There? Searching for ET and Transients with SETI@home. Camtasia Divx PPT

CASPER Workshop I (July 2007) lectures

Monday:

1. Dan Werthimer: Introduction and Overview. Camtasia Divx
2. Aaron Parsons: Simulink Overview. Camtasia Divx
3. Henry Chen: Infrastructure Libraries. Camtasia Divx
4. Vinayak Nagpal: BORPH. Camtasia Divx
5. Daniel Chapman and Andrew Siemion: TinySH. Camtasia Divx

Tuesday:

1. Dan Werthimer: Monday Summary. Camtasia Divx
2. Henry Chen: VLBI Digital Backend. Camtasia Divx
3. Daniel Chapman and Andrew Siemion: Pocket Spectrometer. Camtasia Divx
4. Chen Chang: BEE3. Camtasia Divx
5. Aaron Parsons: FX Correlator Architecture. MP3 Board 1 JPG Board 2 JPG
6. Aaron Parsons: Packetised Correlator Design. Camtasia Divx
7. Joeri van Leeuwen: Pulsars. Camtasia Divx
8. Dan Werthimer: Available and Upcoming Hardware. Camtasia Divx
9. John Ford: NRAO. Camtasia Divx
10. Yashwant Gupta: GMRT. Camtasia Divx
11. Glen Jones: GAVRT (Caltech). Camtasia Divx
12. Alan Langman: MeerKAT. Camtasia Divx
13. Tamara Hall: Arecibo. Camtasia Divx
14. Melvyn Wright: Real Time Imaging. Camtasia Divx
15. Don Backer: RFI, Quantization and Linearization. Camtasia Divx

Samples:

• Daniel Chapman: Mini Spectrometer Demo - download the model file and the power pc code.