Instrumentation & Detectors Working Group

Thursday 5 May 2022, 14:00 → 16:00 Europe/Paris

Nieldane Stodart (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)), Paul Gueye (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Ulrich Goerlach (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

The goal of this meeting is to review LOIs submitted to ASFAP relevant to instrumentation. Short presentations and follow-up discussions will be conducted to evaluate the feasibility, identify the next necessary steps for its consolidation and areas where others could help. 

Best regards
Ulrich Goerlach, Paul Gueye and Nieldane Stodart
ASFAP Instrumentation and Detector Working Group conveners

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Zoom link: https://msu.zoom.us/j/91667013416?pwd=bmgzbHk5VnpwQU1HRy85MUpNKzlqQT09

Meeting ID 916 6701 3416 ; Passcode   147796

14:00 → 14:10 Introduction and purpose of the meeting

Speakers: Nieldane Stodart (iThemba LABS, National Research Foundation (ZA)), Paul Gueye (Facility for Rare Isotope Beams), Ulrich Goerlach (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR))

01IntroductionUlrichPaul.mp4

IDWG_05_05_2022.pdf

14:10 → 14:30 THE USE OF An Am-Be NEUTRON SOURCE FOR TEACHING AND APPLIED RESEARCH

Speaker: Prof. Sunday A. Jonah (Centre for Energy Research and Training, Ahmadu Bello University, )

02Sunday_A_Jonah_THE_USE_OF_An Am_Be_NEUTRON_SOURCE.mp4

Am-Be _Jonah.pdf

14:30 → 14:40 Questions and discussion

14:40 → 15:00 Low Frequency (< 1GHz) Radio Interferometric Arrays and Radio-Astronomy/Cosmology

Speaker: Dr Patrice M. Okouma (Rhodes University in Grahamstown)

03Patrice_M_Okouma_Low_Frequency_Radio Interferometric_Arrays_and_Radio_AstronomyCosmology.mp4

loi_talk_05052022v3.pdf

15:00 → 15:10 Questions and discussion

15:10 → 15:35 The first millimetre-wave radio telescope in Africa: the Africa Millimetre Telescope

Speaker: Michael Backes

04Michael_Backes_The_first_millimetre_wave_radio_telescope _in_Africa.mp4

M.Backes - AMT.pdf

15:35 → 15:45 Questions and discussion

15:45 → 16:00 General Discussion, recomandations, next meeting

Was this meeting useful,
Recommendations for the three projects
Proposal for next meeting (date and which LOIs)

05General_Discussion_Recommendations.mp4