Name: Science and Technology with the Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope
Start: 2025-06-23T07:39:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-24T17:50:00+02:00
Location: Umweltforschungsstation Schneefernerhaus

Science and Technology with the Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope

from Monday, June 23, 2025 (7:39 AM) to Tuesday, June 24, 2025 (5:50 PM)

Monday, June 23, 2025

7:39 AM Special train directly to the UFS
Special train directly to the UFS
7:39 AM - 8:50 AM
9:00 AM Day 1 - Morning Session I
Day 1 - Morning Session I
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome Notes

9:15 AM The Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope - Project Overview - Kadler Matthias (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) Simona Vegetti (MPA)

9:30 AM Science at the Environmental Research Station Schneefernerhaus - Till Rehm (UFS)

9:45 AM The Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope - Telescope Design and Feasibility - Lutz Stenvers

10:00 AM Black Holes and AGN Jets: A Radio Perspective - Anne-Kathrin Baczko (Chalmers University of Technology)

10:15 AM Talk about Black Holes and Relativistic Jets from a Radio-Astronomical Perspective 2 - Christian Fromm (University of Wuerzburg)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
10:45 AM Day 1 - Morning Session II
Day 1 - Morning Session II
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

10:45 AM Interferometric Imaging with Information Field Theory - Torsten Ensslin

11:00 AM The Next Generation Very Large Array - Tony Beasley (NRAO)

11:15 AM The Global Millimetre VLBI Array - Eduardo Ros (MPI für Radioastronomie)

11:30 AM The Africa Millimetre Telescope - Michael Janssen

11:45 AM Constraining Models for Dark Matter with VLBI - John McKean (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute / SARAO / University of Pretoria)

12:00 PM Taking a Leap in Integration Density for ngVLA and Beyond with a SiGe-Based Single-Chip LO Generation - Tobias T. Braun (Ruhr University Bochum)
12:15 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
1:00 PM Day 1 - Afternoon Session I
Day 1 - Afternoon Session I
1:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

1:00 PM Future Space Situational Awareness and Near-Earth Object Studies: A Multistatic Radar Network Including the WMT - Lars Fuhrmann

1:15 PM Detection and Tracking in the GEO, Cislunar and Deep-Space Regime Using Bi-/Multistatic Radar Networks Including the WMT - Marcus Albrecht (Fraunhofer-Institut für Hochfrequenzphysik und Radartechnik FHR)

1:30 PM Multistatic Long-Baseline Satellite Imaging with the WMT - Felix Rosebrock (Fraunhofer FHR)

1:45 PM Characterization of Resident Space Objects (RSOs) Using Radar Networks Including the WMT - Manjunath Thindlu Rudrappa (Fraunhofer FHR, Fraunhofer Institute for High Frequency Physics and Radar Techniques FHR, Wachtberg, Germany)

2:00 PM The WMT as a RX Element in a Multistatic Radar Network: Technological Requirements - Simon Reuter (Fraunhofer FHR)

2:15 PM Operational Requirements for SSA with TIRA / WMT - Robert Perkuhn (Fraunhofer FHR)

2:30 PM Atmospheric Observations with the WMT - Paul Hartogh
2:45 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
3:00 PM Day 1 - Afternoon Session II
Day 1 - Afternoon Session II
3:00 PM - 4:45 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

3:00 PM Chemical Heat as Nonlinear Feedback Mechanism in Mesosphere-Mesopause Region and its Relation to Anthropogenic Changes - Mykhaylo Grygalashvyly (Leibniz-Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock)

3:15 PM Chemical Equilibria and Characteristic Times in Mesosphere-Mesopause Region during SSW Events - Krystine Naranjo Villalón (Leibniz Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Rostock (IAP))

3:30 PM High-Frequency Radio Astronomy Developments in South Africa - Roger Deane (Wits University / University of Pretoria)

3:45 PM Potentials for Multiband Receiver Operations at the WMT - Andrei Lobanov

4:00 PM Dealing with a Scarce Resource - Spectrum Management in the 21st Century - Benjamin Winkel (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR)) Frank Schinzel

4:15 PM Astrochemistry: A Key Tool to Probe Star and Disk Formation - Jaime Pineda (Max-planck-institut Für Extraterrestrische Physik)

4:30 PM Chemical and Physical Properties of Pre-Stellar Cores - Elena Redaelli
5:00 PM Special train back to Garmisch
Special train back to Garmisch
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"

7:00 PM Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

8:15 AM Travel to UFS by Cable Car
Travel to UFS by Cable Car
8:15 AM - 10:15 AM
10:15 AM Day 2 - Morning Session I
Day 2 - Morning Session I
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

10:15 AM Galaxy Evolution with the WMT as a Single Dish Millimeter Observatory - Ryan Keenan (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy)

10:30 AM The BEST-18M-RAS Station - L. Viktor Tóth (University of Debrecen)

10:45 AM VLBI with the Square Kilometre Array Observatory - Jack Radcliffe (University of Manchester)

11:00 AM The AtLAST Project - Overview and Status - Thomas Stanke (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)

11:15 AM Importance of Modeling Source Structure for Geodesy and Astrometry - Minghui Xu (GFZ)

11:30 AM The International VLBI Service for Geodesy and Astrometry (IVS) as potential partner for the Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope - Alexander Neidhardt (FESG - Technical University of Munich)

11:45 AM Bridging Geodesy, Astrometry and Astonomy - Matthias Schartner (ETH Zurich)
12:00 PM Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 PM - 12:30 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
12:30 PM Day 2 - Afternoon Session I
Day 2 - Afternoon Session I
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

12:30 PM Lifting the Veil on Planet Formation: Reviewing the Science Case of Planet Formation for ngVLA - Enrique Macias

12:45 PM Protoplanetary Disks from a Radio-Astronomical Perspective - Talk 2 - Sebastian Wolf

1:00 PM Radio Astronomy at DZA - Stefan Wagner (University of Heidelberg & DZA)

1:15 PM Coexistence of Radio Astronomy in an Increasingly Congested Environment - Frank Schinzel (NRAO)

1:30 PM WMT within the EVN: Enabling the Science at the Highest Resolution - Benito Marcote (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

1:45 PM Operational and Technical Apects of the EVN - Bob Campbell (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)
2:00 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
2:15 PM Day 2 - Afternoon Session II
Day 2 - Afternoon Session II
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
Contributions

2:15 PM Science and Communication in Deep Space: The Role of the Wetterstein Millimeter Telescope - Guido Dietl (University of Würzburg)

2:30 PM Advances in Satellite Communications: Enabling Future Networks through Small Satellite Missions - Guido Dietl (University of Würzburg)

2:45 PM Synergies Between the WMT and the Upcoming CCAT/FYST Telescope in Chile - Dominik Riechers (Universität zu Köln)
3:00 PM Workshop Summary & Concluding Remarks - Fabian Walter (MPIA)
Workshop Summary & Concluding Remarks
- Fabian Walter (MPIA)
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"
3:30 PM Travel back to Garmisch-Partenkirchen by Cable Car
Travel back to Garmisch-Partenkirchen by Cable Car
3:30 PM - 5:50 PM
Room: Room "Prof. Specht"

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