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

09:00 → 10:00 Project Status

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

09:00 NSF & Overall Status

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

Slides ARAJuly2015_AK.pdf

09:20 Japanese project status

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

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

Speaker: Pisin Chen

09:41 General discussion

10:00 → 11:00 Paper Status: testbed, GRB, ara2/3, ICRC, Others

10:00 TestBed Analysis

10:10 GRB Analysis

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-GRBTestbedPaperStatus.pdf

10:20 ARA2-3

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

Slides paperStatus07202015.pdf

10:30 ICRC papers/talks

10:45 Other upcoming conferences

11:00 → 12:00 Other Analysis: Surface Antennas and ARA2+

11:00 Surface antennas

Speaker: Mr David Besson (KU)

Slides 150722_ARA_surfRx.pdf

11:30 ARA2+ analysis

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-RMSAnalysis.pdf

12:00 → 13:00 Working lunch - food will be provided: Taiwan Status Report and Discussion on future papers / proposals

12:00 Taiwan status report

Speaker: Pisin Chen

Slides NTU_ARA_Hardware_Status_2015.pptx

13:00 → 14:00 Operations

13:00 Operations

Speaker: Aongus Ó Murchadha (Université Libre de Bruxelles)

Slides ops_2015.pdf

13:20 Reconstruction framework

Speaker: Christian Bora

Slides Reconstruction_Framework_Status_CB.pdf

13:40 Discussion of future plans, especially s/w

Speaker: Dr Ryan Nichol (UCL)

Slides softwareStatusAndFuturePlans.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Calibration

14:00 Calibration overview

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

Slides Presentation1.pdf Presentation1.pptx

14:15 Antenna calibrations

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

Slides ARAantennacalsim.pdf

14:30 Optical system calibration

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

Slides RFoFcalstatus.pdf

14:45 Discussion and future plans

Slides ARA20150722CHC_v2.pdf

15:00 → 16:00 ARA-sim

15:00 ARA Sim

Speaker: Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)

Slides 2015-07-22-AraSim.pdf

15:20 ARA Sim QC

Speaker: Mr Brian Clark (The Ohio State University)

Slides AraSimQC_Collaboration_Talk_7_23.pdf

15:40 Air shower sensitivity in ice

Speaker: Ryan Caulfield

Slides ARAcollaborationPresentation.pdf

15:50 Discussion and future plans

16:00 → 17:00 Ice Studies

16:00 Splines

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

Slides Radiospline_ARA_July2015_v2.pdf

16:15 Radiosplines

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

Slides 2015_CollabMtg_Analysis.pdf

16:30 Deep pulser

Speaker: Bob Morse (IceCube 222)

Slides spicecore.pdf

16:45 Discussions

19:00 → 20:30 Dinner

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

Thursday, 23 July

09:00 → 10:00 Existing stations

09:00 ARA1 repair

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

Slides ara1.pdf

09:20 Improvements & discussion

Slides ara_existing.pdf

09:40 We'll move something from the afternoon h/w session

10:00 → 11:00 ARA4 - ARA7 Status and Plans

10:00 Hardware status & related items

Speaker: Dr Patrick Allison (Ohio State University)

Slides ara_hardware_status_07_23.pdf

10:20 Discussion & near term plans

11:00 → 12:00 2015 & 2016 On-Ice Plans

11:00 Support landscape

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

Slides Support_Landscape_-_ARA_Coll_Meeting_2015.pptx

11:10 What are we going to deploy?

Slides deploywhat.pdf

11:40 Make schedule & deliberables

12:00 → 13:00 Working lunch - food will be provided: Discussion on Pole Plans

12:00 Discussion of Pole Plans

13:00 → 14:00 New Technologies: Ideas, Digitizers, Antennas

13:00 DRS4, call in from Israel

Slides Technion_23_7_pres.pptx

13:01 ARAcalTA

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

Slides ARAcalTA.pdf

13:16 Interferometry (delay to Friday)

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

Slides ara_jul_15.pdf

13:31 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

13:46 Bipolar triggering

Speaker: Kevin Kirchhoff

Slides bipolar_collaboration_presentation.pdf

14:00 → 15:00 Trigger & reconstruction

14:00 Reconstruction

Speaker: Andrew Shultz (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)

Slides RecoStudyUNL14-15.pdf

14:20 Triggering

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

Slides 2015_CollaborationMtg_Trigger.pdf

14:40 Discussion

15:00 → 16:00 ARA Drill Program

15:00 ARA hot water drill

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

Slides ARAHWD_JulyCollabMtg_150723.pptx

15:20 Smaller drill options (RAM etc.)

15:30 Discussion

16:00 → 17:00 Collaboration planning

16:00 Hello from Abby/Chicago

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

16:10 Hello from Stephanie/Cal State

Speaker: Dr Stephanie Wissel (California Polytechnic State University)

Slides ARA-CalPoly_SWisselv2-1.pdf

16:20 Collaboration procedures etc.

16:40 Next collaboration meeting

Friday, 24 July

09:00 → 10:00 Schedule & Deliverables

09:00 Schedule & deliverables

09:30 To do list

10:00 → 11:00 Budget & Proposals

10:00 New proposals/sources of funding

10:20 Money needs & availability

10:40 R&D contributions/efforts

11:00 → 12:00 Any Remaining Business

11:00 What add-ons do we want?

11:20 Design/trade studies

11:40 Last call for discussions