Thursday 6 July 2017 |
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12:30 | Registration and sandwich lunch | |
13:30 | Carole Jackson | Welcome and Introduction |
13:45 | Linking the past and the future |
Chair: Marco de Vos |
Hugo van Woerden | Setting the scene | |
Rudolf Le Poole | The early days of the WSRT | |
Michiel Brentjens | The polarized sky: 1957-2017 | |
Brian Glendenning | Wim, NRAO, AIPS++ | |
Oleg Smirnov | The Measurement Equation, AIPS++ | |
Tony Willis | Wim and me | |
15:30 | tea / coffee |
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16:00 | Leadership at work |
Chair: Marco de Vos |
Harry van der Laan | SRZM, NFRA and ASTRON (incl UK-NL) | |
Reinder van Duinen | ASTRON & NWO | |
Peter Tindemans | OCW, ESO council | |
Huib-Jan van Langevelde | From VLBI to JIVE to ERIC | |
Thijs van der Hulst | ASTRON and the Universities (incl. Roden/KSW and RuG) | |
Marco de Vos | ASTRON, LOFAR, DOME, …. | |
18:30 | Drinks and dinner/barbeque around the 25-m telescope | |
After-dinner speaker: Jaap Baars |
Friday 7 July 2017 |
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09:00 | WSRT: Science and Technology |
Chair: Jan Noordam |
Ger de Bruyn | WENSS and NEWSTAR | |
John O’Sullivan (remote) | WSRT backends | |
Renzo Sancisi | The Dark Matter saga: the decisive role of the WSRT | |
Rogier Windhorst | Deep radio surveys with the WSRT | |
10:00 | Astrometry: on the ground and in space |
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Hans vd Marel (remote) | WSRT as a geodetic centre | |
Frits Brouwer | Geodesy and VLBI | |
Anthony Brown | (Hipparcos and) Gaia | |
10:45 | tea / coffee |
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11:15 | Towards the SKA |
Chair: Arnold van Ardenne |
Ron Ekers/Bob Frater (remote) | Some personal reminiscences: Wim's ATNF years | |
Richard Schilizzi | Key decisions in the history of the SKA | |
Stefan Wijnholds | Calibrating SKA1: lessons from WSRT and LOFAR | |
Richard Strom | FAST | |
Neil Killeen (video) | Managing Wim | |
Wim Brouw | Closing Remarks | |
13:00 | lunch |
Contact: If you have any additional questions please send an email to Truus van den Brink-Havinga.