ARA Collaboration Meeting

from Wednesday, 22 July 2015 (08:00) to Friday, 24 July 2015 (14:00)
222 W. Washington Ave., Rm. 5117, 53703 (Supernova conference room)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
22 Jul 2015
23 Jul 2015
24 Jul 2015
AM
09:00
Project Status (until 10:00) (Supernova conference room)
09:00 NSF & Overall Status - Albrecht Karle (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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09:20 Japanese project status - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
09:40 Taiwan status (will be over lunch via phone) - Pisin Chen   (Supernova conference room)
09:41 General discussion   (Supernova conference room)
10:00
Paper Status (until 11:00) ()
10:00 TestBed Analysis   ()
10:10 GRB Analysis - Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)   ()
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10:20 ARA2-3 - Thomas Meures (o=ulb,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   ()
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10:30 ICRC papers/talks   ()
10:45 Other upcoming conferences   ()
11:00
Other Analysis (until 12:00) (Supernova conference room)
11:00 Surface antennas - Mr David Besson (KU)   (Supernova conference room)
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11:30 ARA2+ analysis - Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)   (Supernova conference room)
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09:00
Existing stations (until 10:00) (Supernova conference room)
09:00 ARA1 repair - Michael DuVernois (University of Wisconsin--Madison)   (Supernova conference room)
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09:20 Improvements & discussion   (Supernova conference room)
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09:40 We'll move something from the afternoon h/w session   (Supernova conference room)
10:00
ARA4 - ARA7 Status and Plans (until 11:00) (Supernova conference room)
10:00 Hardware status & related items - Dr Patrick Allison (Ohio State University)   (Supernova conference room)
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10:20 Discussion & near term plans   (Supernova conference room)
11:00
2015 & 2016 On-Ice Plans (until 12:00) (Supernova conference room)
11:00 Support landscape - Jim Haugen (University of Wisconsin--Madison)   (Supernova conference room)
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11:10 What are we going to deploy?   (Supernova conference room)
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11:40 Make schedule & deliberables   (Supernova conference room)
09:00
Schedule & Deliverables (until 10:00) (Supernova conference room)
09:00 Schedule & deliverables   (Supernova conference room)
09:30 To do list   (Supernova conference room)
10:00
Budget & Proposals (until 11:00) (Supernova conference room)
10:00 New proposals/sources of funding   (Supernova conference room)
10:20 Money needs & availability   (Supernova conference room)
10:40 R&D contributions/efforts   (Supernova conference room)
11:00
Any Remaining Business (until 12:00) (Supernova conference room)
11:00 What add-ons do we want?   (Supernova conference room)
11:20 Design/trade studies   (Supernova conference room)
11:40 Last call for discussions   (Supernova conference room)
PM
12:00
Working lunch - food will be provided (until 13:00) (Supernova conference room)
12:00 Taiwan status report - Pisin Chen   (Supernova conference room)
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13:00
Operations (until 14:00) (Supernova conference room)
13:00 Operations - Aongus Ó Murchadha (Université Libre de Bruxelles)   (Supernova conference room)
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13:20 Reconstruction framework - Christian Bora   (Supernova conference room)
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13:40 Discussion of future plans, especially s/w - Dr Ryan Nichol (UCL)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:00
Calibration (until 15:00) (Supernova conference room)
14:00 Calibration overview - Prof. Kara Hoffman (o=umd,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:15 Antenna calibrations - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:30 Optical system calibration - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:45 Discussion and future plans   (Supernova conference room)
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15:00
ARA-sim (until 16:00) (Supernova conference room)
15:00 ARA Sim - Dr Carl Pfendner (Ohio State University)   (Supernova conference room)
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15:20 ARA Sim QC - Mr Brian Clark (The Ohio State University)   (Supernova conference room)
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15:40 Air shower sensitivity in ice - Ryan Caulfield   (Supernova conference room)
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15:50 Discussion and future plans   (Supernova conference room)
16:00
Ice Studies (until 17:00) (Supernova conference room)
16:00 Splines - John Kelley (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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16:15 Radiosplines - Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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16:30 Deep pulser - Bob Morse (IceCube 222)   (Supernova conference room)
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16:45 Discussions   (Supernova conference room)
19:00 --- Dinner ---
12:00
Working lunch - food will be provided (until 13:00) (Supernova conference room)
12:00 Discussion of Pole Plans   (Supernova conference room)
13:00
New Technologies (until 14:00) (Supernova conference room)
13:00 DRS4, call in from Israel   (Supernova conference room)
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13:01 ARAcalTA - Keiichi Mase (o=chiba,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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13:16 Interferometry (delay to Friday) - Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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13:31 Timing array - Mr Perry Sandstrom (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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13:46 Bipolar triggering - Kevin Kirchhoff   (Supernova conference room)
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14:00
Trigger & reconstruction (until 15:00) (Supernova conference room)
14:00 Reconstruction - Andrew Shultz (University of Nebraska - Lincoln)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:20 Triggering - Ming-Yuan Lu (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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14:40 Discussion   (Supernova conference room)
15:00
ARA Drill Program (until 16:00) (Supernova conference room)
15:00 ARA hot water drill - Terry Benson (o=uwmad,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
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15:20 Smaller drill options (RAM etc.)   (Supernova conference room)
15:30 Discussion   (Supernova conference room)
16:00
Collaboration planning (until 17:00) (Supernova conference room)
16:00 Hello from Abby/Chicago - Abigail Vieregg (o=research,ou=Institutions,dc=icecube,dc=wisc,dc=edu)   (Supernova conference room)
16:10 Hello from Stephanie/Cal State - Dr Stephanie Wissel (California Polytechnic State University)   (Supernova conference room)
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16:20 Collaboration procedures etc.   (Supernova conference room)
16:40 Next collaboration meeting   (Supernova conference room)