The ALMA2030 Vision: Design Considerations for the Next ALMA Correlator

Next ALMA Correlator Oral Abstract Book

Next ALMA Correlator Poster Abstract Book

Time	Title	Speaker	Affiliation
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
09:00 - 09:10	Welcome	Phil Jewell	NRAO
	ALMA 2030 Roadmap Overview	Session Chair: Stephen White
09:10 - 10:00	The Current Status of ALMA and the ALMA2030 Roadmap	Sean Dougherty	Joint ALMA Observatory
10:00 - 10:15	Unlocking the Chemistry of Planet Formation with ALMA	Ilse Cleeves	University of Virginia
10:15 - 10:30	Moving Past Small Number Statistics with Broadband Surveys	Brett McGuire	NRAO
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break and Posters
11:00 - 11:15	High-redshift Dust as a Galaxy Evolution Probe: Prospects for ALMA in the 2030's	Kristina Nyland	Naval Research Laboratory
11:15 - 11:30	Galaxy Formation and Evolution in the Next Decade: the ALMA2030 Vision	Eric Jiménez-Andrade	NRAO
	Front End and Back End Progress	Session Chair: Jongsoo Kim
11:30 - 12:00	Overview of the Outcomes of ALMA FE & Digitizer Technical Requirements Working Group	Gie Han Tan	ESO
12:00 - 12:30	Digital Front-End Architecture & Improved Quantization Losses	Alain Baudry	University of Bordeaux, LAB
12:30 - 14:00	Lunch
14:00 - 14:25	Upgrading the ALMA Digital System, from Digitization to Correlation	Benjamin Quertier	University of Bordeaux, LAB
14:25 - 14:50	Data Transport Concepts for ALMA 2030 and ngVLA	Sylas Ashton	NRAO
	Additional Goals/Capabilities with Significant Correlator Impact	Session Chair: Adele Plunkett
14:50 - 15:15	Longer Baselines, Delay Tracking, and Correlator Location	Neil Phillips	ESO
15:15 - 15:40	Increasing the Collecting Area of ALMA in the 2030s	Todd Hunter	NRAO
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Posters
16:00 - 16:25	ALMA Phasing Project - Current and Future	Lynn Matthews	MIT/Haystack
	Baseline ALMA Correlator and Path to Development	Session Chair: Rich Lacasse
16:25 - 17:05	How the Current DTS and ALMA BL Correlator Was Implemented and Is Maintained	Alejandro Saez	Joint ALMA Observatory
17:05 - 17:30	ALMA Development Framework	Al Wootten	NRAO
17:30 - 18:30	Poster Reception
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
	Next ALMA Correlator Requirements
09:00 - 09:45	Draft Next ALMA Correlator Specifications	Corr Spec Working Group
09:45 - 10:45	Discussion (possible break out sessions)	All
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break and Posters
	Lessons Learned from Recent Digital Correlator Efforts	Session Chair: Michael Rupen
11:15 - 11:40	Lessons Learned from the Last NOEMA Wideband Correlator System	Olivier Gentaz*	Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique
11:40 - 12:05	SWARM: A 48 GHz Correlator and VLBI Beamformer for the Submillimeter Array	Jonathan Weintroub	CfA/ Harvard
12:05 - 12:30	Lessons from ACA Correlator Development and Operation	Takeshi Kamazaki	NAOJ
12:30 - 13:45	Lunch
13:45 - 14:10	MeerKAT Correlator/Beamformer	Jason Manley	SKA South Africa
14:10 - 14:35	The Role of CPU-Based Correlators in Radio Astronomy	Walter Brisken	NRAO
14:35 - 15:00	Lessons Learned from the VLITE Software Correlator	Tracy Clarke	NRL
15:00 - 15:25	COBALT: 7 years of Real-time Correlation on GPUs	Jan David Mol	ASTRON
	Emerging Projects and Technologies (EPT) - I	Session Chair: Neil Phillips
15:25 - 15:50	Coffee Break and Posters
15:50 - 16:15	SKA-Low	Grant Hampson* / John Bunton*	CSIRO
16:15 - 16:40	SCREAM Design Concept for ngVLA	Omar Yeste Ojeda	NRAO
16:40 - 17:05	TALON Frequency Slice Architecture Correlator / Beamformer for SKA1 Mid	Mike Pleasance	NRC Herzberg Astro
17:05 - 17:30	A Near-Term Replacement for the Existing ALMA Correlator Using Technology and Signal Processing Developed for the SKA1 Mid Telescope Correlator/Beamformer	Brent Carlson	NRC Herzberg Astro
17:30 - 17:45	Report on the Progress on the ALMA Cycle 7 Correlator Study	Sonja Vrcic	NRC Herzberg Astro
18:30 - 21:00	Workshop Dinner
Thursday, February 13, 2020
	Emerging Projects and Technologies (EPT) - II	Session Chair: Alain Baudry
09:00 - 09:25	The Tensor-Core Correlator	John Romein	ASTRON
09:25 - 09:50	Lessons Learned from the Development of the ACA Spectrometer Based on GPU Technology	Jongsoo Kim	KASSI
09:50 - 10:20	Discussion: Pros/Cons of ASIC, FPGA, GPU Architectures	All
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break and Posters
	Additional Topics	Session Chair: Rachel Rosen
10:50 - 11:05	How the ALMA Hardware in the Loop Project Can Accelerate the Implementation of the Next ALMA Correlator	Daniel Herrera	Joint ALMA Observatory
11:05 - 11:20	Phased-Array Mode for TP-array Continuum Observations	Seiji Kameno	Joint ALMA Observatory
11:20 - 11:45	ALMA Data Rate, Transport, and Storage Downstream of the Correlator	Adele Plunkett	NRAO
11:45 - 12:10	Correlator Requirements for Next Generation Interferometers	Michael Rupen	NRC Herzberg Astro
12:10 - 13:20	Lunch
	Challenges for Prototyping, Deployment, and Commissioning
13:20 - 13:45	A Straw Deployment Concept for the Next ALMA Correlator	Crystal Brogan	NRAO
13:45 - 14:15	Discussion of Prototyping and Deployment Challenges	All
	Refinement / Feedback for Next ALMA Correlator Specifications
14:15 - 14:45	Improved Specifications and Open Questions