WSRT User Meeting June 4th 2008

Regardz Meeting Center Eenhoorn

Koningin Wilhelminalaan 33

3818 HN Amersfoort

Phone 033 4673730

http://www.regardz.nl

Regardz map

• Agenda
• 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 - 1055-1110 Introduction (Vermeulen) - 1115-1130 WSRT in perspective of EVN2015 vision (van Langevelde) - 1135-1200 European Pulsar Timing Array and WSRT pulsar capabilities

(Hessels, Karuppusamy)

- 1205-1235 Prospects for a Focal Plane Array: Apertif (Oosterloo)

- 1240-1300 Open for reactions and discussion

1300-1400 LUNCH

1400-1420 Demonstrations of online interfaces for user project tracking and data/archive access (Holties, t.b.d.)

1425-1600 WSRT projects: recent science highlights and ambitions for the future

1. 1425-1440 The very extended rotation curve of NGC 3741 (Gentile)
2. 1445-1500 The SAURON Survey (Cappellari)
3. 1505-1520 Gamma-Ray Bursts (Strom)

- 1520-1535 WSRT Polarisation imaging (Katgert) - 1540-1545 WSRT for EVN calibration, polarization, transients (Paragi) - 1550-1600 Future Large Surveys with the WSRT (Heald)

1600-1615 TEA

1615-1655 Open forum: short contributions, general discussion

1655-1700 Summary (Vermeulen)