WSRT User Meeting June 4th 2008

Minutes WSRT Users Meeting

Regardz Meeting Center Eenhoorn

Koningin Wilhelminalaan 33

3818 HN Amersfoort

Phone 033 4673730

http://www.regardz.nl

Regardz map

• Apertif discussion Document

1030-1035 Welcome, agenda (Vermeulen)

1035-1050 Report from the WSRT Programme Committee chairman (Verheijen)

1055-1300 Views and perspectives on the future course for the WSRT

• Introduction (Vermeulen)
• WSRT in perspective of EVN2015 vision (van Langevelde)
• WSRT pulsar capabilities and European Pulsar Timing Array (Karuppusamy, Hessels)
• Prospects for a Focal Plane Array: Apertif (Oosterloo)

1300-1400 LUNCH

1400-1615 WSRT projects: recent science highlights and ambitions for the future

• The very extended rotation curve of NGC 3741 (Gentile)
• Gas and the formation of early-type galaxies: SAURON + WSRT (Cappellari)
• Gamma-Ray Bursts (Strom)
• WSRT for EVN calibration, polarization, transients (Paragi)
• WSRT Polarisation imaging (Katgert)
• Future Large Surveys with the WSRT (Heald)
• APERTIF and continuum surveys (Rottgering; late contribution)

1615-1630 TEA

1630-1655 Open forum: short contributions, general discussion

1655-1700 Summary (Vermeulen)

1700-1720 WSRT online interfaces (Holties, moved to end of meeting)