ARA Collaboration Meeting

22 Jul 2015, 08:00 → 24 Jul 2015, 14:00 US/Central

Supernova conference room (222 W. Washington Ave., Rm. 5117, 53703)

The ARA Collaboration Meeting will be in Madison, WI from July 22 to July 24. The meeting will be hosted at the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) office located on the 5th floor of 222 W. Washington Ave. Fees will be collected Wednesday from attendees not from Madison. We will take cash or credit or debit cards. US$90 if you plan to attend the dinner on Monday night - US$45 if you will not be able to attend.

Wednesday 22 July

Project Status

meeting will be at 222 W. Washington Ave, 5th floor. Lunch will be provided

1 NSF & Overall Status

Speaker: Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides ARAJuly2015_AK.pdf

2 Japanese project status

Speaker: Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

3 Taiwan status (will be over lunch via phone)

Speaker: Pisin Chen

4 General discussion

Paper Status: testbed, GRB, ara2/3, ICRC, Others

5 TestBed Analysis

6 GRB Analysis

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-GRBTestbedPaperStatus.pdf

7 ARA2-3

Speaker: Thomas Meures (o=ulb,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides paperStatus07202015.pdf

8 ICRC papers/talks

9 Other upcoming conferences

Other Analysis: Surface Antennas and ARA2+

10 Surface antennas

Speaker: Mr David Besson (KU)

Slides 150722_ARA_surfRx.pdf

11 ARA2+ analysis

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-RMSAnalysis.pdf

Working lunch - food will be provided: Taiwan Status Report and Discussion on future papers / proposals

12 Taiwan status report

Speaker: Pisin Chen

Slides NTU_ARA_Hardware_Status_2015.pptx

Operations

13 Operations

Speaker: Aongus Ó Murchadha (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Slides ops_2015.pdf

14 Reconstruction framework

Speaker: Christian Bora

Slides Reconstruction_Framework_Status_CB.pdf

15 Discussion of future plans, especially s/w

Speaker: Dr Ryan Nichol (UCL)

Slides softwareStatusAndFuturePlans.pdf

Calibration

16 Calibration overview

Speaker: Prof. Kara Hoffman (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides Presentation1.pdf Presentation1.pptx

17 Antenna calibrations

Speaker: Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides ARAantennacalsim.pdf

18 Optical system calibration

Speaker: Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides RFoFcalstatus.pdf

19 Discussion and future plans

Slides ARA20150722CHC_v2.pdf

ARA-sim

20 ARA Sim

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-AraSim.pdf

21 ARA Sim QC

Speaker: Mr Brian Clark (The Ohio State University)

Slides AraSimQC_Collaboration_Talk_7_23.pdf

22 Air shower sensitivity in ice

Speaker: Ryan Caulfield

Slides ARAcollaborationPresentation.pdf

23 Discussion and future plans

Ice Studies

24 Splines

Speaker: John Kelley (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides Radiospline_ARA_July2015_v2.pdf

25 Radiosplines

Speaker: Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides 2015_CollabMtg_Analysis.pdf

26 Deep pulser

Speaker: Bob Morse (IceCube 222)

Slides spicecore.pdf

27 Discussions

19:00 Dinner

Sujeo
http://www.sujeomadison.com/
10 N Livingston Street

Thursday 23 July

Existing stations

28 ARA1 repair

Speaker: Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

Slides ara1.pdf

29 Improvements & discussion

Slides ara_existing.pdf

30 We'll move something from the afternoon h/w session

ARA4 - ARA7 Status and Plans

31 Hardware status & related items

Speaker: Dr Patrick Allison (Ohio State University)

Slides ara_hardware_status_07_23.pdf

32 Discussion & near term plans

2015 & 2016 On-Ice Plans

33 Support landscape

Speaker: Jim Haugen (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

Slides Support_Landscape_-_ARA_Coll_Meeting_2015.pptx

34 What are we going to deploy?

Slides deploywhat.pdf

35 Make schedule & deliberables

Working lunch - food will be provided: Discussion on Pole Plans

36 Discussion of Pole Plans

New Technologies: Ideas, Digitizers, Antennas

37 DRS4, call in from Israel

Slides Technion_23_7_pres.pptx

38 ARAcalTA

Speaker: Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides ARAcalTA.pdf

39 Interferometry (delay to Friday)

Speaker: Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides ara_jul_15.pdf

40 Timing array

Speaker: Mr Perry Sandstrom (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides RAM_DRILL.pptx Time-of-Arrival_Detection.pptx

41 Bipolar triggering

Speaker: Kevin Kirchhoff

Slides bipolar_collaboration_presentation.pdf

Trigger & reconstruction

42 Reconstruction

Speaker: Andrew Shultz (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Slides RecoStudyUNL14-15.pdf

43 Triggering

Speaker: Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides 2015_CollaborationMtg_Trigger.pdf

44 Discussion

ARA Drill Program

45 ARA hot water drill

Speaker: Terry Benson (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

Slides ARAHWD_JulyCollabMtg_150723.pptx

46 Smaller drill options (RAM etc.)

47 Discussion

Collaboration planning

48 Hello from Abby/Chicago

Speaker: Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

49 Hello from Stephanie/Cal State

Speaker: Dr Stephanie Wissel (California Polytechnic State University)

Slides ARA-CalPoly_SWisselv2-1.pdf

50 Collaboration procedures etc.

51 Next collaboration meeting

Friday 24 July

Schedule & Deliverables

52 Schedule & deliverables

53 To do list

Budget & Proposals

54 New proposals/sources of funding

55 Money needs & availability

56 R&D contributions/efforts

Any Remaining Business

57 What add-ons do we want?

58 Design/trade studies

59 Last call for discussions