Name: ARA Collaboration Meeting
Start: 2015-07-22T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2015-07-24T14:00:00-05:00
Location: 222 W. Washington Ave., Rm. 5117, 53703

ARA Collaboration Meeting

from Wednesday 22 July 2015 (08:00) to Friday 24 July 2015 (14:00)

Monday 20 July 2015
Tuesday 21 July 2015
Wednesday 22 July 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

09:00 NSF & Overall Status - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:20 Japanese project status - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

09:40 Taiwan status (will be over lunch via phone) - Pisin Chen

09:41 General discussion
10:00 testbed, GRB, ara2/3, ICRC, Others
testbed, GRB, ara2/3, ICRC, Others
10:00 - 11:00
Contributions

10:00 TestBed Analysis

10:10 GRB Analysis - Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

10:20 ARA2-3 - Thomas Meures (o=ulb,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

10:30 ICRC papers/talks

10:45 Other upcoming conferences
11:00 Surface Antennas and ARA2+
Surface Antennas and ARA2+
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

11:00 Surface antennas - David Besson (KU)

11:30 ARA2+ analysis - Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)
12:00 Taiwan Status Report and Discussion on future papers / proposals
Taiwan Status Report and Discussion on future papers / proposals
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

12:00 Taiwan status report - Pisin Chen
13:00
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

13:00 Operations - Aongus Ó Murchadha (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

13:20 Reconstruction framework - Christian Bora

13:40 Discussion of future plans, especially s/w - Ryan Nichol (UCL)
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

14:00 Calibration overview - Kara Hoffman (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:15 Antenna calibrations - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:30 Optical system calibration - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:45 Discussion and future plans
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

15:00 ARA Sim - Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

15:20 ARA Sim QC - Brian Clark (The Ohio State University)

15:40 Air shower sensitivity in ice - Ryan Caulfield

15:50 Discussion and future plans
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

16:00 Splines - John Kelley (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:15 Radiosplines - Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:30 Deep pulser - Bob Morse (IceCube 222)

16:45 Discussions
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Room: 10 N Livingston Street
Thursday 23 July 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

09:00 ARA1 repair - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

09:20 Improvements & discussion

09:40 We'll move something from the afternoon h/w session
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

10:00 Hardware status & related items - Patrick Allison (Ohio State University)

10:20 Discussion & near term plans
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

11:00 Support landscape - Jim Haugen (University of Wisconsin--Madison)

11:10 What are we going to deploy?

11:40 Make schedule & deliberables
12:00 Discussion on Pole Plans
Discussion on Pole Plans
12:00 - 13:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

12:00 Discussion of Pole Plans
13:00 Ideas, Digitizers, Antennas
Ideas, Digitizers, Antennas
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

13:00 DRS4, call in from Israel

13:01 ARAcalTA - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

13:16 Interferometry (delay to Friday) - Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

13:31 Timing array - Perry Sandstrom (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

13:46 Bipolar triggering - Kevin Kirchhoff
14:00
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

14:00 Reconstruction - Andrew Shultz (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

14:20 Triggering - Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

14:40 Discussion
15:00
15:00 - 16:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

15:00 ARA hot water drill - Terry Benson (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

15:20 Smaller drill options (RAM etc.)

15:30 Discussion
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

16:00 Hello from Abby/Chicago - Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)

16:10 Hello from Stephanie/Cal State - Stephanie Wissel (California Polytechnic State University)

16:20 Collaboration procedures etc.

16:40 Next collaboration meeting
Friday 24 July 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

09:00 Schedule & deliverables

09:30 To do list
10:00
10:00 - 11:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

10:00 New proposals/sources of funding

10:20 Money needs & availability

10:40 R&D contributions/efforts
11:00
11:00 - 12:00
Room: Supernova conference room
Contributions

11:00 What add-ons do we want?

11:20 Design/trade studies

11:40 Last call for discussions

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