SKA Technology Day,
NRAO Array Operations Center, Socorro, NM March 14, 2006

Program

Morning Session
US Pathfinders
- The Expanded Very Large Array (EVLA) – Rick Perley, NRAO
- NASA’s Deep Space Network Array – Mark Gatti, JPL
- The Allen Telescope Array – Dave DeBoer, SETI Institute
- The Long Wavelength Array – Greg Taylor, University of New Mexico
- The Mileura Widefield Array – Colin Lonsdale, MIT/Haystack Observatory

Afternoon Session
SKA Technologies: The 3M’s (Manufacturing, Management and Moore’s Law)
- Patriot’s Antenna Alternatives for the SKA – Peter Shield, Patriot
- Signal distribution – Steve Durand, NRAO
- Manufacturing 101 - The SKA Element as an Appliance – David Dornfeld, UCB
- Xilinx, FPGA’s, and Moore’s Law – Steve Trimberger, Xilinx
- Management – Joe Statman, JPL
- IBM System Solutions Offerings – Tom Liebsch, IBM