Programme

We are very happy to announce such a large number, and large variety of presentations and contributions to the conference.

Friday April 15th:

19:00 – 22:00 –  Icebreaker reception in Bar/Restaurant ‘Het Hof van Dwingeloo’ in Dwingeloo.

Saturday April 16th:

09:30 – 10:00 – Registration and Coffee

10:00 – 10:15 – Opening

10:15 – 10:45 – Keynote: Prof. Dr. M. Garrett, “From Dwingeloo to the SKA”

10:45 – 11:15 – Andries Boone, “Receiving the 21cm Hydrogen line: Yes we can! (but how?)”

11:15 – 11:35 – Coffee break

11:35 – 12:00 – Rob Stammes, “Very Low Frequency Radio Astronomy and the Northern Lights”

12:00 – 12:30 – Paul Hyde, “Meteor Scatter Investigations in the UK”

12:30 – 13:30 – Lunch

13:30 – 14:00 – Hugo van Woerden, “History of the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope”

14:00 – 14:20 – Harm Munk, “Mapping the Milky Way, Again”

14:20 – 14:50 – Michiel Klaassen, “Disassembly, re-construction and first light of a 9.3m radio telescope”

14:50 – 15:00 – Nanne Hoekstra, “Introducing Meetlab”

15:00 – 15:15 – Group Picture

15:15 – 18:00 – Demonstrations, workshops, and tours of the Dwingeloo telescope

19:00 – late – Dinner at ‘De Bospub’ (not included in registration fee).

Sunday April 17th

09:15 – 09:30 – Doors open

09:30 – 10:00 – Frans de Jong, “Observations of M31 with the Dwingeloo Radio Telescope”

10:00 – 10:30 – Gerhard Stramm, “A self-made 21cm feed for less than €20”

10:30- 10:50 – Coffee break

10:50 – 11:20 – Peter East, “Amateur Pulsar Detection using RTL-SDR”

11:20 – 11:50 – Julien Marien – “First Results of our Radio Interferometer”

11:50 – 12:20 – Wolfgang Herrmann, “Pulsar Observations with the Astropeiler Stockert Telescope”

12:20 – 12:45 – Paul Boven, “A new frontend and backend for the D.T. – and for you?”

12:45 – 12:55 – Closing

12:55 – 13:30 – Lunch

13:30 – 16:30 – Tour of the Westerbork Synthesis Array

This program is still subject to change, and will be updated as we get closer to start of EUCARA-2016.