SOC Planning Page for China-US Workshop 2015

Proposed Title: Scientific and Technical Drivers for the Next Generation of Radio Telescopes

Proposed Dates: October 14-16, 2015

Location: SHAO, Shanghai, China

SOC: Braatz (Co-chair), Kellermann, Lo, Prestage, Beasley, Shen (Chair), Hong, Gao

To be done:

• Finalize the list of invited speakers and their talks.
• eNews article goes out June 10
• Get invitation letters from China for US Visas
• Decide on visit to FAST site. 3 days added to trip.
• Decide on 1-2 day mini-course on radio interferometry and ALMA data processing?
• Make a "Who's who?" book of participants. (A successful component of previous meetings).
• Finalize program
  • Reserve at least 2 hours, preferably 1 full afternoon, for breakout sessions on specific collaborations
• Update/maintain web sites
• Missing science components: Astrometry (Moellenbrock?), Transients

Web sites:

• http://rast4.csp.escience.cn/
• https://science.nrao.edu/science/meetings/2015/4th_us_china_workshop/home

US Invite list

• NRAO
  • Attending: Braatz, Beasley, Kellermann, Prestage, Bastian, Demorest, Alyson Ford, Lockman, Srikanth, John Ford
  • Declined: Chandler, Bradley, Spolaor, Condon, Murphy, Myers, McKinnon
• Other US
  • Attending: McLaughlin, Greene, Steve Smith (Sandy Weinreb's group), Homan, Pisano, Doeleman, Moran, Jeffs, Henning
  • Declined: Haynes, Lister, Reid, Minchin, Warnick

Program ideas: (order of talks, speakers, and topics are still TBD)

	Topic	Speaker	Notes
Status Talks
	Status of US Radio Astronomy	Beasley
	Status of Chinese Radio Astronomy	e.g. Hong
Science Topics
	Pulsar Science Overview	Demorest	may swap this with Maura's talk on NANOgrav
	NANOgrav	McLaughlin
	Extragalactic HI Surveys	Henning
	HI at low Column Density	Pisano
	Galactic HI	Lockman
	Chinese VLBA results	e.g. An Tao and others	Preliminary results of Chinese program. Multiple programs approved -- could be several talks.
	Chinese submm projects and involvement in JCMT		EA Observatory took over operation of JCMT in March. 2-3 talks incl. overview and science talks
	Radio Loud and Radio Quiet Quasars	Kellermann	Paired with An Tao talk
	MOJAVE	Homan
	Megamasers/MCP	e.g. Gao, Zhao, Braatz	Update on progress, requirements for next generation instruments.
	Black Hole - Host Galaxy Scaling Relations	Jenny Greene	M-sigma, M-Mbulge, HST, Jenny works with Chinese colleagues already
	VLASS	Beasley
New and Emerging Projects and Instruments
	The International SERA Project	Prestage	SERA = Software-Enabled Radio Astronomy. This is a proposal to the NSF PIRE Program (Partnerships for International Research and Education), This talk will include info on technical collaborations with SHAO, FAST, QTT
	First science with FAST	e.g. Di Li	status report. first light next year
	Instrumentation for FAST	Steve Smith	He is building a broadband RX for FAST
	ngVLA/NHA: Instrument Overview and Science	Beasley
	FASR	Bastian	Project-oriented instrument session
	CSRH	e.g. Yan	Project-oriented instrument session
	EHT	Doeleman	Project-oriented instrument session
	21CMA		Project-oriented instrument session
	Chinese Arctic Observatory		Project-oriented instrument session
	QTT	e.g. Na Wang	New developments since GB meeting
	Chinese Space missions		CSMVA = Chinese Space mm VLBI Array; also, SULFRO is an ultta low freq array
	PAF	Prestage or Jeffs
	RadioAstron/VLBI tracking	Alyson Ford
	Spectrum management	e.g. Haiyan Zhang	Chinese radio spectrum expert
	RFI/EMI mitigation in China		may include active cancellation techniques
	Chinese Participation in the SKA

Other Business:

If there is interest we could arrange a "Community Days" style presentation before or after the workshop. This would be a 1-2 day event, separate from the workshop. It is aimed at starting graduate students and astronomers interesting in learning the basics of millimeter interferometry. It can include hands-on CASA reduction of ALMA data. Topics could include:

• Radio Interferometry and ALMA:
  • Intro to NRAO facilities
  • Intro to radio and submm interferometry
  • ALMA capabilities
  • The ALMA OT
  • ALMA data: What is delivered, what is in the archive?
  • CASA imaging
  • Self calibration
  • Hands-on data reduction with CASA

-- JimBraatz - 2015-05-06