Job opportunity in Bonn: long-baseline LOFAR development
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From: <Emil.Lenc_at_email.protected>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:37:53 +1000
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:25:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Olaf Wucknitz <wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de<mailto:wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de>>
To: vlbi_at_listmgr.<!--nospam-->cv.nrao.edu<mailto:vlbi_at_listmgr.<!--nospam-->cv.nrao.edu>
Subject: Job opportunity in Bonn: long-baseline LOFAR development
Dear colleagues,
our institute has funding for a (max) 3-year postdoc or developer position to
work on implementing calibration schemes for international baselines of the
Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The job is not formally advertised yet, but since
the funding ends on a fixed date (end of June 2014), it should be filled as
soon as possible.
If you know of any suitable candidates (or if you are one yourself), please ask
them to contact me for details.
Aim of the project is to (further) develop advanced calibration and
fringe-fitting methods that are suitable for observations at low frequencies.
Because of the nature of the LOFAR stations, this requires working in a general
polarisation-aware formalism.
Actual implementation and coding will be an important part as well.
Despite the emphasis of technical development work, unique science projects
will be possible as well. Particularly the long baselines of LOFAR are probing
an entirely new parameter space with many important discoveries to be expected.
LOFAR has already improved the resolution of low-frequency VLBI imaging by an
order of magnitude.
A small selection of early long-baseline LOFAR results and developments is
described here: <http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4358>
Relevant qualifications are experience in radio interferometry beyond the bare
user level, particularly on very long baselines, a mathematical understanding
of the methods involved, and programming expertise.
Anybody with at least a subset of these qualifications and an interest to work
in Bonn for international LOFAR is welcome to contact me for further details.
Please spread this widely.
Regards,
Olaf Wucknitz
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:37:53 +1000
Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2011 16:25:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: Olaf Wucknitz <wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de<mailto:wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de>>
To: vlbi_at_listmgr.<!--nospam-->cv.nrao.edu<mailto:vlbi_at_listmgr.<!--nospam-->cv.nrao.edu>
Subject: Job opportunity in Bonn: long-baseline LOFAR development
Dear colleagues,
our institute has funding for a (max) 3-year postdoc or developer position to
work on implementing calibration schemes for international baselines of the
Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR). The job is not formally advertised yet, but since
the funding ends on a fixed date (end of June 2014), it should be filled as
soon as possible.
If you know of any suitable candidates (or if you are one yourself), please ask
them to contact me for details.
Aim of the project is to (further) develop advanced calibration and
fringe-fitting methods that are suitable for observations at low frequencies.
Because of the nature of the LOFAR stations, this requires working in a general
polarisation-aware formalism.
Actual implementation and coding will be an important part as well.
Despite the emphasis of technical development work, unique science projects
will be possible as well. Particularly the long baselines of LOFAR are probing
an entirely new parameter space with many important discoveries to be expected.
LOFAR has already improved the resolution of low-frequency VLBI imaging by an
order of magnitude.
A small selection of early long-baseline LOFAR results and developments is
described here: <http://arxiv.org/abs/1008.4358>
Relevant qualifications are experience in radio interferometry beyond the bare
user level, particularly on very long baselines, a mathematical understanding
of the methods involved, and programming expertise.
Anybody with at least a subset of these qualifications and an interest to work
in Bonn for international LOFAR is welcome to contact me for further details.
Please spread this widely.
Regards,
Olaf Wucknitz
-- Argelander-Institute for Astronomy wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de<mailto:wucknitz_at_astro.<!--nospam-->uni-bonn.de> University of Bonn, Germany http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~wucknitzReceived on 2011-07-12 15:38:26