EXPRe S Annual Review 2007 April 17 NAs

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

Agenda 09: 00 -09: 30 Introductions / Overview 09: 30 -11: 00 EXPRe. S Summary for Past 12 Months 20 NA 1/NA 2/NA 3/NA 4 - Network Activities and Management 20 SA 1 - Production e-VLBI Service 20 SA 2 - Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array 20 JRA 1 - 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 2

Introduction (some of) The Faces of EXPRe. S 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 3

Introduction EXPRe. S Timeline 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 4

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 1 - Management of I 3 • 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 5

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 1 - 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 6

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 1 - 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 7

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 2 - 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 • GEANT 2 (Europe) via DANTE • SURFnet 6 (Netherlands) via SURFnet • PIONEER (Poland) via PSNC • AARNet 3 (Australia) via AARNet • South American network’s participation in SMART-1 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 8

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review GEANT 2 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 9

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review SURFNet 6 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 10

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review PIONEER 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 11

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review AARNet 3 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 12

# List of 19 NRENs 2007 April 17 Participant NREN 1 JIVE SURFnet 2 AARNET AARNet 3 DANTE n/a 4 PSNC/PIONEER 5 SURFnet 6 ASTRON SURFnet 7 CNIG-IGN Red. IRIS 8 CSIRO AARNet 9 HRAO-NRF TENET 10 INAF GARR 11 MPG (1) DFN 11 MPG (2) Jülich 12 TKK Funet / CSC 13 CORNELL (1) PRISA (Puerto Rico Internet Services Association) 13 CORNELL (2) FIU (Florida International University) 14 UMK PIONEER 15 OSO (1) SUNET 15 OSO (2) NORDUunet 16 SHAO CSTNET 17 UDEC (1) REUNA 17 UDEC (2) Red. CLARA 18 UNIMAN UKERNA 19 Ve. A/VIRAC (1) LATNET 19 Ve. A/VIRAC (2) GEANT 19 Ve. A/VIRAC (3) GEANT EXPRe. S Annual Review 13

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review SMART-1 Observation, 2006 Sept • 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review ESA 2002 14

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 3 - e. VSAG • e. VSAG = 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 EXPRe. S 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 • e. VSAG meeting; Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; Nov 2006 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 15

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 3 - e-VLBI Observation • The e-VLBI observation schedule is coordinated via the e. VSAG 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 +61. 303, 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. 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 16

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review Science Publications 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 17

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review NA 4 - Public Outreach • Purpose: • to develop a coherent and visible outreach programme profiling EXPRe. S 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 18

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review EXPRe. S Public Online Presence http: //www. expres-eu. org/ • The EXPRe. S 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 EXPRe. S wiki is a dynamic forum where project members create and edit project related information. 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 19

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review General Publications 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 20

NA 1, 2, 3, and 4: Past 12 Month Review EXPRe. S Project Site- wiki 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 21

NA 1 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip D 32 NA 1. 01 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 12 D 81 NA 1. 02 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 24 D 111 NA 1. 03 Annual report (incl. Financial information) to EC 36 D 112 NA 1. 04 Final Report to Board and EC 36 D 113 NA 1. 05 Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge 36 D 114 NA 1. 06 Implementation of the Gender Action Plan 36 D 115 NA 1. 07 Raising public participation and awareness 36 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review Plan 22 Actual 13

NA 2 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan Actual D 4 NA 2. 01 EVN-NREN meeting No. 1 (under auspices of EXPRe. S) (minutes) D 31 NA 2 n/a NA 2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPRe. S Ann. Rep No. 2) 24 D 33 NA 2. 02 NA 2 annual report No. 1 (as part of EXPRe. S Ann. Rep No. 1) 12 D 48 NA 2. 03 EVN-NREN meeting No. 2 18 D 82 NA 2. 04 NA 2 annual report No. 2 (as part of EXPRe. S Ann. Rep No. 2) 24 D 88 NA 2. 05 EVN-NREN meeting No. 3 26 26 D 89 NA 2. 06 EVN-NREN representatives present EXPRe. S networking results at the e-VLBI Science & Technology Workshop D 90 NA 2 n/a EVN-NREN meeting D 116 NA 2. 07 NA 2 annual & Final reports 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 3 n/a 36 23 6 13

NA 3 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip Plan D 6 NA 3. 1 First meeting of e. VSAG under auspices of EXPRe. S (minutes) D 46 NA 3. 2 e. VSAG meeting No. 2 16 D 91 NA 3. 3 e. VSAG meeting No. 3 26 D 94 NA 3. 4 e-VLBI Workshop held in Onsala 30 D 107 NA 3. 5 Publication of e-VLBI Workshop proceedings 32 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 4 24 Actual 9

NA 4 Deliverables D# A AD# Descrip D 1 NA 4. 01 Creation of Public EXPRe. S web-site 2 1 D 7 NA 4. 02 Creation of EXPRe. S web-based management tools 4 4 NA 4. 03 Generation of PR material (phase 1: logos and posters, Power. Point template, press releases and news clippings, brochure) 6 1 NA 4. 04 e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events (events, presentations) 12 12 NA 4. 05 Generation of new PR material (phase 2: display stand merchandise) 18 e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at Network events. 24 D 10 D 34 D 49 NA 4 D 83 NA 4. 06 D 117 NA 4. 07 2007 April 17 Plan e-VLBI Demonstration and attendance at network events. EXPRe. S Annual Review 36 25 Actual

Agenda 09: 00 -09: 30 Introductions / Overview 09: 30 -11: 00 EXPRe. S Summary for Past 12 Months 20 NA 1/NA 2/NA 3/NA 4 - Network Activities and Management 20 SA 1 - Production e-VLBI Service 20 SA 2 - Network Provision for a Global e-VLBI Array 20 JRA 1 - 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 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 26

Conclusion Questions/Answers • Contact information T. Charles Yun Project Manager EXPRe. S (JIVE) tcyun at jive dot nl • Additional Information http: //expres-eu. org/ http: //www. jive. nl/ • [note: only one “s”] EXPRe. S is made possible through the support of the European Commission (DG-INFSO), Sixth Framework Programme, Contract #026642 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 27

Conclusion EXPRe. S 2007 April 17 EXPRe. S Annual Review 28