The
Fifth International Congress for Radio Astronomy
The European Radio Astronomy Club
At
the
University of Applied Science(FH Wieblingen )
Heidelberg Germany
4th to the 6th of September,
2009
Official Congress Program
Thursday3rd of September
“Early Arrivals” will meet for a beer in
the Heidelberger Altstadt (Old Town) Near the Old Heidelberger Bridge in the Steingasse 9 at
the Wirtshaus VETTERS with its own Brewery inside, we have a table reserved from 19:00 Onward for ERAC
Friday the 4th of
September (Workshop Day) On Campus
Bonhöfer Str 11 2nd Floor Department of Electrical Engineering
10:00 CAD Circuit design
using Sprint layout
11:30 SMD Soldering
12:30 Dinner break, at Café Liberty on campus next to the
Boarding house
14:00 Understanding S Parameters “Using
Agilent S Parameter Tester Live “ Agilent
19:00 End of the first day. Drinks on
Campus “Liberty”
Bonnhöfer Str 8
Saturday the 5th
of September In the Science Tower Great Lecture hall at the Base Ludwig Gutman Str 6 on Campus
08:00 Official Opening Peter
Wright, ERAC President, Prof P
Shuch SETI League Executive Director,
SARA 30 min
08:30 Designing Low noise Amplifiers the E PHEMT as MMIC Peter Wright ERAC President 15 Min
09:00 Introduction to SETI
Science and Technology Prof Dr Paul
Shuch SETI League USA 30 min
09:30 The Radio Telescope
Mannheim Upgrade 2007- 2009 Peter Wright ERAC
President 30 Min
10:00 Welcoming address
University of Applied Science
Heidelberg Prof Dr Dr
Winterberg SRH Heidelberg 30 min
10:15 Interferometry
and Circular Polarisation Measurements in Radio Astronomy Dr David Fields SARA
USA 30 min
10:45 Short
Tea and Coffee Break
11:00 Cosmic Rays the
Highest Energies in the Universe Dr Jörg Hörandel Radbound University Nijmegen
Holland 60 Min
12:00 Official Group Photo In front of the Science Tower 10
Min followed by a “Brisk” walk to Dinner
12:15 Dinner
break, at Liberty on campus next to the Boarding house
13:30 The Expanding
Planets. Prof Dr-Ing Konstantin Meyl
University of Furtwangen Black Forrest Germany 120 Min
15:30 Short Tea and Coffee break 15 min
15:45 LNA Cooling Peter
Wright ERAC President 30 Min
16:15 The Multiwavelength
Galactic centre SgrA Ms Yasmin Walter
University of Frankfurt 40 min
17:00 The Landes Sternwarte
Heidelberg Bernhard Keil Centre for
astronomy University of Heidelberg (Film)
17:30 Project Argus Update Prof Dr
Paul Shuch SETI League USA 30 min
18:00 The Optical Lunar
Opposition Effect Prof Dr Elmar Schmidt
University of Applied Science Heidelberg
30 min
18:30 Radio Eyes The Future of our Radio Astronomy, Global Joint Observing and VLBI
Peter Wright ERAC President
19:00 ARGOS Spectrometer
Search for Extragalactic Radio Transients, Dipl. Ing. Christian Monstein, ETH
Zürich
20:00 End of the First Day we all go off to the Official Congress Banquet. on Campus
22:30 Possibility to Visit the Landes
Sternwarte Heidelberg “Attach
yourselves to Bernhard Keil” we need car drivers !
Sunday the 6th of
September In the Science Tower Great Lecture hall at the Base
09:30 Opening
Coffee
10:00 The Noise free far
side of the Moon and the Future of Radio Astronomy Prof Claudio Maccone University of Turin Italy 30 min
10:30 Spacecraft Reception
on 8.4GHz with a 1.8m Dish Dipl-ing
Wolfgang Arnold Germany 30min
11:00 International
Spectrometer Network CALLISTO Dipl-Ing Christian Monstein Institute of Astronomy ETH Zurich
Switzerland 60
12:00 Dinner
break, at Liberty on
campus next to the Boarding house
13:30 The Day the Earth
stood out Prof Dr Paul Shuch SETI League USA 30 min
14:00 Beyond the FFT :
Extraction of weak signals from Noise plus Data Compression by the KLT Prof Claudio Maccone 30 min
14:30 Monitoring Solar Activity by observing Satellites Martin Bertges 30 min
15:00 Coffee
break
15:30 Non-local
Signal Transfer between Atomic Nuclei (Timewave Research) Dipl.-Ing. Eckhard Kantz
45 min
18:15 A New way
of planning SETI Searches by the STATISTICAL Drake Equation Prof Claudio
Maccone 30 min
18:45 ??? Slots for Brought Lectures “ Always many “
19:15 ???
20:00 Official End of the fifth International Congress for Radio Astronomy
. or maybe later depending on late lectures
The Survivors
meet again for a final feed again at Liberty
Emergency
Telephone Info - Peter: 01736366076
Restaurant on Campus LIBERTY on the Bonhöfer Strasse 8 behind the boarding house
This Event is open to Registered Members and Guests as well as
Lecturers and Students of the University City of Heidelberg.
Contact info: www.eracnet.org erachq@aol.com Peter Wright Ziethen STR
97 68259 Mannheim 0621 794597
Emergency Hotels : High Class
reasonable price Hollander Hof 06221
60500 www.hollander-hof.de
ETAP Hotel Langlachweg 18, 68229 Mannheim –
Friedrichsfeld 0621 48 47 620
Or find one in heidelberg via tourist information 06221
1422 ext 24 or 25 or 26 the Congress is
in Heidelberg Wieblingen
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We are pleased to inform you of our next International Congress For Radio Astronomy which takes place
at the University of Applied Science (FH) Heidelberg
(www.fh-heidelberg.de). It will be held Friday the 4th, Saturday the 5th and
Sunday the 6th of September 2009 in the Great Lecture hall of the "Science Tower". Rooms are available
for early bookers for 68.50 Euro per night (Single) and 99 Euro per night (Double) including breakfast.
These events, held every 3 years, are hosted by The European Radio Astronomy Club, an
organisation with over 250 members in 16 different countries, pledged to assist and inform
interests in Radio Astronomy, both Professional and Amateur. As in previous years, the organisation of
this important event is in the good hands of Peter Wright, ERAC's President, who is also a teacher
in the field of Communications electronics at the Fachhochschule (FH) Heidelberg.
An Important link to the Wikipedia, all you need to know about Heidelberg site :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg
The 5th ERAC Congress will be Co-Hosted, as before, by the SETI League and its Executive Director, Prof.
Dr. H. Paul Shuch. This is a 3 day event with lectures and workshops, as well as the chance
to visit Heidelberg, Germany’s finest University city .
The congress will be on campus with the hotel as well as the mid day food and directly next to the Lecture hall
the Tram car is situated which takes everyone directly into the old city of Heidelberg for the evening banquet.
This is also a wonderful opportunity to bring along your wifes Or Partner as the city of Heidelberg is only 5 minutes
away which allows wonderful shopping during the day when the men are at the congress. In other words, the 5th ERAC
Congress is wonderful for the family, so no excuses are open for not bringing the partner, especially the cheep price
of the double room.
In the evenings we will come together also at
on campus and there will be much opportunity for talking to people whom you listened to during congress lectures
or with whom you have exchanged mails between Congress events.
The following images showing the Heidelberg Castle have been taken by Kai-Erik Ballak:
On Friday, guests will be arriving from all over the world, professionals from radio astronomy sites, instituts and universities as well as many amateur radio astronomers. This is the chance of a
lifetime for Scientists to have a wonderful weekend as well as their wifes or partner a wonderful short holiday!
Please click on one of the following links (flags) to the Guesthouse:
Booking (German)
Booking (English)
Information about the Guesthouse of SRH
The University town of Heidelberg is World famous being also the home of important scientific
institutions like for example The Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomy, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Verlag "Sterne und Weltraum" and
many more. It has a Main Line Railway Station and Frankfurt International Airport is Just around the
Corner. An Hourly Schuttle bus leaves the airport directly for Heidelberg City. Ask Lufthansa where it
leaves from, the price is very cheep!
For a complete information package of Heidelberg with maps, special offers, all the things to see,
please write to info@cvb-heidelberg.de and state:
"Attention Mrs Seiferling, I wish to attend the 5th International Congress for Radio Astronomy
4th 5th 6th of September 2009 at the University of Applied Science (FH Heidelberg). Could you please
send me the information package reserved for me as arranged with Mr Wright from ERAC." You should
now place in your name and address and send off the e-mail!
Friday the 4th will be a workshop day, the official opening of the Congress will be at 09:00 hrs
and the Congress will continue till about 19:00 hrs, with a long lunch break at noon. In the evening,
we will be gathering for our evening meal, once again open ended. Saturday and Sunday will be a lot of
lectures with the same schedule as on Friday, finishing on Sunday at 17:00 hrs.
Here is a placemark to the Mannheim Radio Telescope that will be visited Friday afternoon:
Mannheim Radio Telescope
and this is a description how to get there:
To Get to the ERAC Radio Telescope Site in Mannheim please observe the following:
The Radio Telescope is Situated in an area Called the Bürgerpark "Peoples Park".
This is the discription for a piece of green that no local knows of at all to be perfectly honest!
It is situated on the Edge of Feudenheim, the Village part of Mannheim I live in. The Bürger park is
Surrounded by the next Village Wallstadt and a new town area called Käfertal Süd so that explained things
roughly on the big map. Let me give you the directions now as if you were comming from Heidelberg.
From the Heidelberg Autobahn leave at the Sign post Feudenheim Neckerau Maimarkt Neuostheim.
This is the first Right off the Autobahn sharp, do not continue to Neckerau. This is the other direction of
the Autobahn you are now aiming for, drive onto this new Piece on Short Autobahn and keep on it.
To your left you will see the airfield of the Mannheimer Neuostheimer area and with it on your road a
traffic light next to the end of the runway. Keep on going straight. The road will go up a bit and cross
first the River Neckar then the Neckar Channel. Keep on going now, the road goes up hill at the end of a right
curve to stop at a crossing with Traffic Lights. Left goes into the town, right goes into Feudenheim and I live
near here just keep going on straight however.
Now after crossing railway lines for the tram you will be seeing
also tram lines to your right. Drive about 600 Meters and in front of will loom up unfortunatly an American Barracks
Spinellie. The road forks here and to your right is a very high block of flats in Red. Now turn Right at this fork in
the direction of Wallstadt. After about 100 meters, to the left is the end fence of the Barracks and you will be at a
crossroads again. Get into the left lane here. The Crossing is on the road you are now on the Wingersbuckel with the
Talstrasse. Now turn left and drive over the Tram lines into the Dead end of the Talstrasse, a small industrial estate!
Immediately after crossing the tram lines you will see a wide path road going into the green of the park directly behind
the tram stop. Drive along this small road at slow speed watching out for pedestrians. Keep on going till you see to the
Left of you a large Parabolic Dish in the field. You have arrived. Park please to the right next to the shrubbs and
trees. Please be aware at all times for Dogs and people who are walking along this road also.
To close, as usual, Dr Paul Shuch from the SETI League will be playing
Radio Astronomy Shanties in the afternoon sun.
Contact Information:
The European Radio Astronomy Club , Ziethen Str 97, D-68259 Mannheim Germany
Tel Home ++49 (0)621 794597 Mobile 0173 6366 076 Work ++49(0)6221 512470.
email: erachq@aol.com
web: eracnet.org
How to find the University of Applied Science (FH Heidelberg):
Once arrived at the FH Heidelberg the Congress and Hotel are here:
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European Radio Astronomy Club. Comments and questions to
erachq@aol.com are very appreciated.
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