Workshop Program & Presentation Files
See also the material from the 2001 workshop and the on-line MIRIAD tutorials.
Monday 12th
| 8:30 | 50 min | Registration | ||
| 9:00 | 20 min | Welcome & Announcements | Tony Wong, Bob Sault | |
| 9:20 | 40 min | Lecture: Motivation for Interferometry | Ron Ekers | PPT / PDF; PPT (additional slides) |
| 10:00 | 45 min | Lecture: Basics of Interferometry | Dave McConnell | PPT / PDF |
| 10:45 | 30 min | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:15 | 45 min | Lecture: Interferometer Sensitivity | Michael Dahlem | HTML / PDF |
| 12:00 | 30 min | (parallel sessions) Tutorial | Daniel Mitchell | |
| Special Topic: The Unified Clock Principle | Jon Ables | |||
| 12:30 | 60 min | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Introduction to Calibration | John Reynolds | PPT / PDF |
| 14:00 | 45 min | Lecture: Visibility Analysis & Self-Calibration | Steven Tingay | PPT / PDF |
| 14:45 | 20 min | Afternoon Tea | ||
| 15:05 | 40 min | Lecture: Calibration at Millimetre Wavelengths | Rick Forster | PPT / PDF |
| 15:45 | 45 min | Lecture: Introduction to Imaging | Mark Wieringa | PPT / PDF |
| 16:30 | 30 min | (parallel sessions) Tutorial | Tony Wong | |
| Special Topic: Radio Observations of the Sun | Stephen White | |||
| 17:00 | 30 min | Feedback Session | Jess O'Brien | |
| 17:30 | 4 hr | Refreshments, followed by Camp Oven Night | ||
| 21:30 | Bus back to Narrabri |
Tuesday 13th
| 9:00 | 30 min | Lecture: The Primary Antenna Elements | Ravi Subrahmanyan | PPT / PDF |
| 9:30 | 30 min | Lecture: High-frequency Radio Receivers | Graeme Carrad | PPT / PDF |
| 10:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Correlators | Warwick Wilson | PPT / PDF |
| 10:30 | 30 min | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Observing strategies at cm wavelengths | Jessica Chapman | PPT / PDF |
| 11:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Observing strategies at mm wavelengths | Tony Wong | PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 | 30 min | (parallel sessions) Tutorial | John Reynolds | |
| Special Topic: Advanced Correlators | Dick Ferris | PPT / PDF | ||
| 12:30 | 50 min | Lunch | ||
| 13:20 | 2h40m | Observatory Tour | Narrabri Staff | HTML / PS.GZ [cm data demo] |
| 16:00 | 6h30m | Practical Session: cm observing (in 4 shifts) | Naomi McClure-Griffiths, Robin Wark | |
| 16:00 | 45 min | Lecture: Interferometry Made Simple(?) | Tony Wong | PPT |
| 17:15 | Bus back to Narrabri |
Wednesday 14th
| 9:00 | 45 min | Lecture: Deconvolution and MFS | Bob Sault | PPT / PDF |
| 9:45 | 45 min | Lecture: Polarimetry | Roopesh Ojha | PPT / PDF |
| 10:30 | 30 min | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Spectral Line Imaging | Juergen Ott | PPT / PDF |
| 11:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Recognising Errors | Ron Ekers | PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 | 30 min | (parallel sessions) Tutorial | Jess O'Brien | |
| Special Topic: Radio Interference | Daniel Mitchell | PPT / PDF | ||
| 12:30 | 60 min | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | 30 min | Feedback Session | Cormac Purcell | |
| 14:00 | 2h30m | Practical Session: Interferometry demo | Ravi Subrahmanyan | |
| 14:00 | 4 hr | Practical Session: MIRIAD cm data reduction (in 2 shifts) | Bob Sault, Jess O'Brien | PS.GZ / PDF |
| 16:30 | 6h30m | Practical Session: mm observing (in 4 shifts) | Tony Wong, Cormac Purcell | |
| 18:00 | 3h30m | Pizza Night | ||
| 21:30 | Bus back to Narrabri |
Thursday 15th
| 9:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Mosaicing | Naomi McClure-Griffiths | PPT / PDF |
| 9:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Merging Single-Dish Data | Lister Staveley-Smith | PPT / PDF |
| 10:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Multibeaming and Wide-Field Surveys | Anne Green | PPT / PDF |
| 10:30 | 30 min | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Image Analysis | Jim Lovell | PPT / PDF |
| 11:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Spectral Line VLBI | Chris Phillips | PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 | 30 min | (parallel sessions) Tutorial | Frank Briggs | |
| Special Topic: Millimetre Observing with BIMA | Rick Forster | PPT / PDF | ||
| 12:30 | 60 min | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | 3 hr | Practical session: AIPS++ cm data reduction (in 2 shifts) | Mark Wieringa, Paul Jones | TXT [Mark]; PS.GZ [Paul] |
| Practical session: MIRIAD mm data reduction (in 2 shifts) | Bob Sault, Tony Wong | TXT [Tony]; PDF [Bob] | ||
| 16:30 | 60 min | Lecture & Discussion: Good and bad proposals | Brian Schmidt | PPT / PDF; DOC [roles] |
| 17:30 | Bus back to Narrabri |
Friday 16th
| 9:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Millimetre astronomy: Thermal Lines | Peter Barnes | |
| 9:30 | 30 min | Lecture: Millimetre astronomy: Masers | Chris Phillips | PPT / PDF |
| 10:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Millimetre astronomy: Galaxies | Elaine Sadler | PPT / PDF |
| 10:30 | 30 min | Morning Tea | ||
| 11:00 | 30 min | Lecture: Millimetre ATCA Results | Vincent Minier | PPT / PDF |
| 11:30 | 30 min | Lecture: ALMA | Wim Brouw | PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 | 30 min | Lecture: LOFAR and the Path to the SKA | Frank Briggs | PPT / PDF |
| 12:30 | 15 min | Closing remarks | Tony Wong, Bob Sault | |
| 12:45 | 45 min | Lunch | ||
| 13:30 | ~3 hr | Bus leaves for optional bushwalk |
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