SST Meeting – Agenda

The meeting will take place in the Barkla Lecture Theatre in the Chadwick Laboratory.

Tuesday 7^th September

Physics and MC studies: optimizing the CTA and the SST

09.00 Coffee

09.30 Welcome, discussion of agenda (Tim Greenshaw)

09.40 Physics requirement for the SST (Stefano Vercellone)

10.00 Requirements and optimisation of the SST (Jim Hinton)

10.20 Optimizing the SST array (Thomas Bretz via EVO)

10.40 Coffee

Telescope optics

11.00 Overview and Dual Mirror design (Tim Greenshaw)

11.20 Davies Cotton (Konrad Bernloehr)

11.40 Single mirror plus light cones (Isabel Braun)

12.00 The SST in SimTelArray (Dan Parsons)

12.20 Lunch

Telescope structures

14.00 Polish design (Pawel Ziolkovski)

14.20 Durham design (Tim Greenshaw)

14.40 INAF designs (Rodolfo Canestrari)

Mirrors for the SST

15.00 Progress with mirrors for the SST (Rodolfo Canestrari)

15.30 Saclay mirrors (Pierre Brun)

15.50 Coffee

16.30 SST calibration (Michael Daniel)

16.50 SST alignment (Rodolfo Canestrari)

17.10 Close

19.30 Dinner at Pierre’s Bistro for those who are interested

Wednesday 8th September

Focal Plane Instrumentation and Electronics for the SST

09.00 Overview (Richard White)

09.20 ELEC (Pascal Vincent)

09.50 AGIS electronics (Stefan Funk)

10.10 FlashCam (Richard White)

10.50 Coffee

11.00 NECTAR (Pierre Brun)

11.20 GAPDs (Giovanni Bonanno)

11.40 FACT (Isabel Braun)

12.00 MAPMs (Osvaldo Catalano)

12:20 Lunch

Final discussion session

14.00 SST-STRUC (Giovanni Pareschi)

14.20 SST-CAM (Richard White)

14.40 SST-SYS (Tim Greenshaw)

15.00 Discussion

15.30 Coffee and close

Additional material

Mirror development at Padua (Michele Doro)

Silicon photomultipliers (Razmik Mirzoyan)