<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">CASPER 2017 and Student Funding</span></font><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">typically attended by 80 - 100 international astronomy digital signal processing experts, the CASPER workshop is a semi-annual meeting where FPGA, GPU, and general heterogeneous system programmers discuss new instruments in radio astronomy, as well as the tools and libraries needed for developing and manipulating these instruments. This year, the workshop will focus on the newest generation of the CASPER toolflow "JASPER" and the hardware it is designed to support.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The workshop runs for one week, the <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">14th - 18th August</span></span>, and consists of presentations in the morning, followed by various hands-on tutorials and breakout sessions in the afternoon. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Details of the conference can be found at: <a href="http://www.tauceti.caltech.edu/casper-workshop-2017/" target="_blank">http://www.tauceti.<wbr>caltech.edu/casper-workshop-<wbr>2017/</a>, and information on CASPER generally at <a href="https://casper.berkeley.edu/" target="_blank">https://casper.berkeley.<wbr>edu/</a>. Presentations from previous workshops typical of the topics represented can be found at: <a href="https://casper.berkeley.edu/wiki/Workshop_2014_Schedule" target="_blank">https://casper.berkeley.<wbr>edu/wiki/Workshop_2014_<wbr>Schedule</a>. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Registration for the workshop is scheduled to close on <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">June 30</span></span>, though late registration can be organized via the LOC (<a href="mailto:casper2017@lists.astro.caltech.edu" target="_blank">casper2017@lists.astro.<wbr>caltech.edu</a>). Funding is available to support US-based student attendance, please contact the LOC for further details. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Many thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The CASPER 2017 LOC.</span></p></div></div></div>
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