USNC-URSI NRSM 2018

Morning, Thursday, January 4, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology I

Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)

Afternoon, Thursday, January 4, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology II

Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)

  • J2-1:  Deployment of a Novel Interferometer Architecture on the LWA-Sevilleta Station (Nithyanandan Thyagarajan*, Adam P. Beardsley, Judd D. Bowman,Greg B. Taylor, Jayce Dowell, Miguel F. Morales)
  • J2-2:  Advances in an 8 to 50 GHz Cryogenic Low Noise Amplifier for the Next Generation Very Large Array (Andrew Janzen*, Ezra Long, Lorene Samoska, Jose Velazco)
  • J2-3:  Preliminary Test Results of JPL’s Ultrawideband Receiver Package for the ngVLA (Jose E. Velazco*, Andrew W. Janzen, Daniel J. Hoppe, Lorene A. Samoska, Ezra M. Long, James G. Bowen, Larry R. D’Addario, Melissa A. Soriano, Joseph Lazio)
  • J2-4:  Hyper Spectral FFT Imager (Deepthi Gorthi*, David DeBoer, Jack Hickish, Aaron Parsons, Kathryn Rosie, Dan Werthimer)
  • J2-5:  The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: 1.1-1.9 GHz Observations of 692 Nearby Stars (Jesus E. Enriquez*, Andrew Siemion, Griffin Foster, Vishal Gajjar, Greg Hellbourg, Jack Hickish, Howard Isaacson, Danny C. Price, Steve Croft, David DeBoer, Matt Lebofsky, David MacMahon, Dan Werthimer)
  • J2-6:  Progress on HIRAX, The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-Time Analysis Experiment (Emily R. Kuhn*)

Afternoon, Friday, January 5, 2018 – ALMA2030

Session Co-Chairs: Al Wootten (NRAO) and Arielle Moullet (NRAO)

Morning, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – The VLBA at 25: Recent Accomplishments and Future Directions

Session Co-Chairs: Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico), Walter Brisken (LBO)

Morning, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – New Telescopes, Techniques, and Technology III

Session Co-Chairs: Dan Jacobs (Arizona State) and Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley)

Afternoon, Saturday, January 6, 2018 – Spectral Line Cosmology and Low-Frequency Arrays

Session Co-Chairs: Dave DeBoer (UC Berkeley) and Greg Taylor (University of New Mexico)