MID4Automotive consortium meeting

29 Oct 2024, 12:00 → 30 Oct 2024, 15:30 Europe/Amsterdam

Auditorium (ASTRON)

Agnes Mika (ASTRON)

Invitation

Dear MID4Automotive consortium member,

We'd like to kindly invite to the upcoming consortium meeting held at the ASTRON headquarters in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands.

Logistics

Date

October 29 - 30, 2024. Start: 12:00, end: ~15:30.

Travel

The meeting will take place at ASTRON headquarters in Dwingeloo, the Netherlands; refer to our website for travel information.

We can provide help with arranging transportation between ASTRON and Hoogeveen Railway Station. Please reach out using the contact details provided below.

If you have an electric car, you can charge it in our carpark (turn right at the entrance). You will need to get a pass from reception. 

Surroundings

ASTRON is located in the middle of a beautiful national park (Dwingelderveld). Bring your walking shoes along and enjoy a stroll in nature during the lunch break.

Accommodation

There are lots of hotels in Dwingeloo you can choose from. We made a block booking in hotel "De Borken" in Lhee ( https://www.hoteldeborken.nl/nl/). This is the closest hotel to ASTRON.

Remote Participation

If you are unable to join us at ASTRON in person, you can participate in the meeting using Zoom. 

Connection details:

• Guestlink: https://astron.zoom.us/j/5576910248
• Join by web (Chrome only): https://zoom.us/wc/join/5576910248
• Join by Microsoft Teams: https://astron.zoom.us/skype/5576910248
• Direct connection: https://astron.zoom.us/j/5576910248?pwd=UDg0YmVXazFuYzlUV29OVm9ERGM0Zz09
• Meeting id: 557 691 0248
• Password: 456850

 

Tuesday 29 October

12:00 → 13:00 Arrival and lunch (provided)

13:00 → 14:00 Tour of the Dwingeloo Telescope

We'll be visiting the oldest radio telescope in the Netherlands, located in ASTRON's backyard. You'll learn about the history of the telescope and the first major discoveries in radio astronomy. We'll steer the telescope and listen to a pulsar and other radio sources on the sky.

Speaker: Michel Arts (ASTRON)

14:00 → 15:00 Tour of the ASTRON labs

We'll show you the breadth of ASTRON: from antenna engineering, through digital processing, to telescope operations and science.

Speakers: Agnes Mika (ASTRON), Gijs Schoonderbeek (ASTRON), Roel Witvers (ASTRON)

15:00 → 15:10 Welcome

Welcome, logistics.

Speaker: Agnes Mika (ASTRON)

15:10 → 15:20 Administration and practical issues

• Presentation of the agenda
• Administration and practical issues
• Status amendments Xecs
• Upcoming reports
• Fix date options and venue for the review meeting

Speaker: Hilde De Witte (NXP)

15:20 → 16:30 WP4 - Dissemination and communication activities

• Status of present activities
• Links with other projects?
• Standardisation: list of membership and activities
• Any more exploitation activities? Patents? Specific product development (requests)? …
• Brainstorm on potential activities
• events
• publications
• updates website: https://www.mid4automotive.de/en/
• social media
• Action plan, incl. update of the website

Speaker: Stephan Kruse (Universitaet Paderborn)

16:30 → 17:00 Break

17:00 → 18:00 WP3 - Integration and testing kick-off

• Introduction
• Links with WP2

Speaker: Philipp Rust

18:00 → 18:45 Go to hotels, check in

18:45 → 21:00 Group Dinner

Group dinner in Dwingeloo, restaurant De Brink.
https://www.grandcafedebrink.nl/

Wednesday 30 October

09:00 → 11:00 WP2 - Status

• Status (Jul 2023-Dec 2025)
• Radar part -> split into tasks
• Communication part - Ulf Johannsen
• Conclusion & action plan

Speakers: Jabil Diri (Fraunhofer-Institut für Entwurfstechnik Mechatronik IEM), Ulf Johanssen (TU Eindhoven)

11:00 → 12:00 Preparation for the review meeting

• Presentation structure
• Upcoming CR needs
• Action plan
• Review agenda

Speaker: Ulf Johanssen (TU Eindhoven)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch (provided)