1. EXPReS Annual Review - 2007 April 17
NA's- Past 12 Month Overview
T. Charles Yun
EXPReS Project Team
JIVE, Coordinating Institution
EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642

2. 09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview
09:30-11:00 EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
20 NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management
20 SA1- Production e-VLBI Service
20 SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array
20 JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI
11:45-12:30 Comments from E.C. on morning
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Financial Overview for Past 12 Months
14:00-15:15 Overview of project next 18 Months
15:15-16:00 Open Discussion
16:00-16:20 Reviewer Internal Meeting
16:20-16:30 First Feedback to the team
16:30 Conclusion / End of First Year Review
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3. (some of) The Faces of EXPReS
Introduction
(some of) The Faces of EXPReS
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4. Introduction
EXPReS Timeline
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5. NA1- Management of I3 Distribution of Period 1 funding (covered later)
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- Management of I3
Distribution of Period 1 funding (covered later)
Board Meeting
Selection of Chair and Vice-Chair
Confirmation of Coordinator
Project Kickoff Meeting
Basic communication pathways for the project
Contact names/info, mailing lists
Addendum to the Consortium Agreement
Makeup of the Project Office
Reporting, communications
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6. NA1- the Project Office Project Coordinator
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- the Project Office
Project Coordinator
Mike Garrett, Huib Jan van Langevelde
The switch has been signaled to the EC and the Project Office has received a letter recognizing the change.
Administrative Assistant
Diana van Dijk (month 1)
Project Manager
T. Charles Yun (month 6)
With the completion of the full project office, communication and reporting with the EC should be more effective and reliable
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7. NA1- Amendment to Consort. Agmt
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA1- Amendment to Consort. Agmt
Changes to the Consortium Agreement were proposed at the Board Meeting
Creating a formal Amendment was the procedural solution
The board discussed the text to be modified as well as the reasons and reasoning for the changes
In total, eight amendments were accepted and verbally approved by the board
A "signable" legal document followed after several cycles of legal formatting
All partners have signed the Consortium Agreement as well as the Amendment to the Consortium Agreement
Copies of the signed documents are held by the Project Office
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8. NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA2- EVN-NREN Forum
EVN-NREN = European VLBI Network - National Research and Education Networks
John Chevers, DANTE
Purpose:
Support and encourage discussion on topics relating to network implementation of telescopes and performance experienced by e-VLBI traffic between members of the astronomy and networking communities
Activities
EVN-NREN Meeting, May 2006
NREN cooperation with SMART-1 observation
NREN Partners
GEANT2 (Europe) via DANTE
SURFnet6 (Netherlands) via SURFnet
PIONEER (Poland) via PSNC
AARNet3 (Australia) via AARNet
South American network’s participation in SMART-1
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9. GEANT2 NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review 2007 April 17
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10. SURFNet6 NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review 2007 April 17
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11. PIONEER NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review 2007 April 17
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12. AARNet3 NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review 2007 April 17
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13. List of 19 NRENs # Participant NREN 1 JIVE SURFnet 2 AARNET AARNet 3
DANTE
n/a 4
PSNC
PSNC/PIONEER 5 6
ASTRON 7
CNIG-IGN
RedIRIS 8
CSIRO 9
HRAO-NRF
TENET 10
INAF
GARR 11
MPG (1)
DFN
MPG (2)
Jülich 12
TKK
Funet / CSC 13
CORNELL (1)
PRISA (Puerto Rico Internet Services Association)
CORNELL (2)
FIU (Florida International University) 14
UMK
PIONEER 15
OSO (1)
SUNET
OSO (2)
NORDUunet 16
SHAO
CSTNET 17
UDEC (1)
REUNA
UDEC (2)
RedCLARA 18
UNIMAN
UKERNA 19
VeA/VIRAC (1)
LATNET
VeA/VIRAC (2)
GEANT
VeA/VIRAC (3)
List of 19 NRENs
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14. SMART-1 Observation, 2006 Sept
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
SMART-1 Observation, 2006 Sept
ESA 2002
e-VLBI is used to monitor SMART-1’s controlled impact on the surface of the moon.
Radio telescopes, led by European radio astronomers from JIVE recorded key data during its final moments and impact.
Successes:
10 usec accuracy of impact (+/- 2 cm)
Networked transport of data
Coordination and cooperation between telescopes, astronomers and inter/national backbone networks
e-VLBI in support of space operations
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15. NA3- eVSAG eVSAG = e-VLBI Science Advisory Group John Conway Purpose
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA3- eVSAG
eVSAG = e-VLBI Science Advisory Group
John Conway
Purpose
to be a forum to discuss the science use of e-VLBI, give a user perspective on the relative priorities for technical development and give science-based policy advice to other parts of EXPReS or the EVN in general
Meetings
e-VLBI progress and strategy to the EVN board of directors; Florence, Italy; May 2006
e-VLBI update to the EVN board of directors, Dwingeloo, the Netherlands, Nov 2006
eVSAG meeting; Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; Nov 2006
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16. NA3- e-VLBI Observation
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA3- e-VLBI Observation
The e-VLBI observation schedule is coordinated via the eVSAG chair. Summary of past year's observation schedule:
16 Mar 2006
Technical operations, 5 antennas at 128 Mbps
20 Apr 2006
Gave published observations (Tudose, et al. and Rushton, et al.)
18 May 2006
Six station fringes at 256 Mbps (CM, JB, MC, ON, TR, WB). First ever European 512 Mbps e-VLBI fringes on the Jodrell Bank - Westerbork baseline. 13-hours science project without major problems.
21 August 2006
We had the first 512 Mbp fringes between three European stations: Cambridge, Onsala and Westerbork. We also got fringes for the first time between Cambridge, Medicina and Westerbork using Medicina’s new 5 GHz receiver.
26 October 2006
New correlator control computer. First time to run the science experiments at 256 Mbps. Two projects that targeted the X-ray binary LSI , and the eclipsing binary system Algol. Both of the targets were nicely detected in the data analysis pipeline.
14 December 2006
Test went extremely smoothly, three science projects. 6 stations easily participated at 256 Mbps.
29 January - 1 February 2007
Set up as a double adaptive run (29 January - 1 February) with the first run used to select targets for the second run. 6 stations participated at 256 Mbps. The reduction strategy worked well, and pipeline maps were produced for 14 out of 16 sources by the end of the first run. Unfortunately, none of the sources were found to be in an active state. On 2 February, all telescopes observed a calibrator source for one hour at 512 Mbpsto produce the first map at 512 Mbps.
20 February 2007
512 Mbps data rate was again achieved from fives stations.
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17. Science Publications NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
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18. NA4- Public Outreach Purpose:
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
NA4- Public Outreach
Purpose:
to develop a coherent and visible outreach programme profiling EXPReS to astronomers, diverse researchers and the general public both nationally and internationally
Activity highlights:
General project website
Project wiki with public and secured areas
Press releases, posters, support for news and radio articles
Project brochure, distributed to partners
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19. EXPReS Public Online Presence
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
EXPReS Public Online Presence
The EXPReS website is the public’s interface into the project. From this point general, scientific and technical information is accessible.
Many of the physical publications produced by the project are available for download
The EXPReS wiki is a dynamic forum where project members create and edit project related information.
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20. General Publications NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
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21. EXPReS Project Site- wiki
NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review
EXPReS Project Site- wiki
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22. NA1 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual D32 NA1 NA1.01
Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 12
 13
D81
NA1.02 24
D111
NA1.03 36
D112
NA1.04
Final Report to Board and EC
D113
NA1.05
Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge
D114
NA1.06
Implementation of the Gender Action Plan
D115
NA1.07
Raising public participation and awareness
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23. NA2 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual D4 NA2 NA2.01
EVN-NREN meeting No. 1 (under auspices of EXPReS) (minutes) 3 6
D31
n/a
NA2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 2) 24
D33
NA2.02
NA2 annual report No. 1 (as part of EXPReS Ann. Rep No. 1) 12
 13
D48
NA2.03
EVN-NREN meeting No. 2 18
D82
NA2.04
D88
NA2.05
EVN-NREN meeting No. 3 26
D89
NA2.06
EVN-NREN representatives present EXPReS networking results at the e-VLBI Science & Technology Workshop
D90
EVN-NREN meeting
D116
NA2.07
NA2 annual & Final reports 36
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24. NA3 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual D6 NA3 NA3.1
First meeting of eVSAG under auspices of EXPReS (minutes) 4 9
D46
NA3.2
eVSAG meeting No. 2 16
D91
NA3.3
eVSAG meeting No. 3 26
D94
NA3.4
e-VLBI Workshop held in Onsala 30
D107
NA3.5
Publication of e-VLBI Workshop proceedings 32
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25. NA4 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual D1 NA4 NA4.01
Creation of Public EXPReS web-site 2 1 D7
NA4.02
Creation of EXPReS web-based management tools 4
D10
NA4.03
Generation of PR material (phase 1: logos and posters, PowerPoint template, press releases and news clippings, brochure) 6
D34
NA4.04
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events (events, presentations) 12
D49
NA4.05
Generation of new PR material (phase 2: display stand and merchandise) 18
D83
NA4.06
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events. 24
D117
NA4.07
e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at network events. 36
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26. 09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview
Agenda
09:00-09:30 Introductions / Overview
09:30-11:00 EXPReS Summary for Past 12 Months
20 NA1/NA2/NA3/NA4- Network Activities and Management
20 SA1- Production e-VLBI Service
20 SA2- Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array
20 JRA1- Future Arrays of Broadband Radio Telescop on Internet Computing
11:00-11:15 Break
11:15-11:45 External User: Benefits and capabilities of e-VLBI
11:45-12:30 Comments from E.C. on morning
12:30-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:00 Financial Overview for Past 12 Months
14:00-15:15 Overview of project next 18 Months
15:15-16:00 Open Discussion
16:00-16:20 Reviewer Internal Meeting
16:20-16:30 First Feedback to the team
16:30 Conclusion / End of First Year Review
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27. Conclusion
Questions/Answers
Contact information
T. Charles Yun
Project Manager
EXPReS (JIVE)
tcyun at jive dot nl
Additional Information
[note: only one “s”]
EXPReS is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642
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28. Conclusion
EXPReS
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