PAF2016 Workshop presentations

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PAFs and the future of radio astronomy, S. Tingay (INAF, Italy)

Introductory Talk: Mutual coupling analysis of line-feeds devoted to cylindrical reflectors, C. Craye (Univ. Louvain, Belgium)

High-Performance PAFs with CMOS LNAs, B. Veidt (NRC, Canada)

Early commissioning results from the Focal-plane L-band Array feed for the Green Bank Telescope (FLAG), B. Jeffs (Brigham Young Univ., USA)

Focal L-band array for the GBT: Instrumentation Upgrades and Performance Results, Anish Roshi (NRAO, USA)

An update on APERITIF and future PAF activities at ASTRON, W.A. van Cappellen (ASTRON, The Netherlands)

Online Calibration Scheme for APERITIF, B. Hut (ASTRON, The Netherlands)

Development of the L-band Phased Array Feed for the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope, Y. Wu (NAO, China)

Measuring PAFs at CSIRO, A. P. Chippendale (CSIRO, Australia)

First astronomy with a modified Mark II ASKAP PAF on the 64 m Parkes radio telescope, A. P. Chippendale (CSIRO, Australia)

The development of a CSIRO MKIII wideband phased array feed, A. Dunning (CSIRO, Australia)

High Polarisation Isolation Crossed-Ring Antenna Array for SKA-MFAA, Y. Zhang (University of Manchester, UK)

A 160 channel Cryo Phased Array Camera for Radio Astronomy, G. Cortes-Medellin (Cornell University, USA)

CryoPAF4 – a cryogenic phased array feed design, L. Locke (NRC, Canada)

Variable Dielectric Delay Lines in Liquid Crystals for Phased Array Feed, L. Liu, (University of Manchester, UK)

Cryo-mechanical solutions for a cryostat equipped with large window: The PHAROS case, S. Mariotti (INAF, Italy)

PAF Aperture Array Tests: Analog and Digital Beamforming Compared, D. B. Hayman (CSIRO, Australia)

The ASKAP Phased Array Feed Digital Beamformer: Design Overview and Performance Characteristics, J. Tuthill (CSIRO, Australia)

A[nother] beamforming strategy – an information theoretic look at beamforming with PAFs, G. Hellbourg (CSIRO, Australia)

Spatial RFI mitigation with Phased Array Feeds, G. Hellbourg (CSIRO, Australia)

Fast Numerical Method for the Simulation of Hexagonal Focal Plane Array, R. Sarkis (Antonine Univ., Lebanon)

SKA as Piggyback on Solar Power Towers?, A. Roy (MPIfR, Germany)

PAFs for imperfect optics, O. Wucknitz (MPIfR, Germany)

First astronomy results from PAFs, P. Serra (CSIRO, Australia)

The CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science Phased Array Feed Development Program, M. A. Bowen (CSIRO, Australia)

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