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8th ATNF Synthesis Imaging School

ATNF Synthesis Imaging School 2008


Program & Presentations


8th ATNF Synthesis Imaging School
29 September -- 3 October, 2008

(program version 1.7, 30-sep)
     Mon.  08:30  Registration and coffee
           09:00  Introduction to the ATCA (ppt with audio, 37Mb)                      Phil Edwards
           10:00  Principles of Interferometry:
                      I: introduction, motivation and basics 
                      (ppt with audio, 35Mb), (array demo ppt, 230kb)                  Ron Ekers
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30     II: detailed theory (ppt with audio, 46Mb)                        Rick Perley
           12:30  Signal Processing (ppt with audio, 39Mb)                             Graeme Carrad
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Correlators and CABB (ppt with audio, 41Mb)                          Dick Ferris
           15:30  Coffee
           16:00  ASKAP & SKA (pdf, 44Mb)                                              Ilana Feain
           17:00  Q&A session
           18:00  Bus leaves site
           19:30  Evening function (RSL Outback Shack)

     Tue.  08:45  Coffee
           09:00  Fourier Transforms (ppt with audio, 50Mb), (pdf, 18Mb)               Robert Braun
           10:00  Calibration and Editing (ppt with audio, 39Mb)                       Mark Wieringa
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Imaging and Deconvolution (ppt with audio, 60Mb)                     Mark Wieringa
           12:30  Spectral Line Observing (ppt with audio, 46Mb)                       Andrew Walsh
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Tutorial 1
                  (includes "The radio-astronomers IT toolkit" (pdf, 2.6Mb)            Tara Murphy) 
                  (and coffee break at 15:30)
           17:00  Q&A session
           18:00  Bus leaves site

     Wed.  08:45  Coffee
           09:00  Sensitivity (ppt with audio, 32Mb)                                   Bob Sault
           10:00  Self Calibration (ppt with audio, 52Mb)                              Steven Tingay
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Error Recognition (ppt with audio, 46Mb)                             Ron Ekers
           12:30  VLBI (pdf, 5Mb)                                                      Cormac Reynolds
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Tutorial 2
           17:00  Q&A session
           18:30  On-site evening function
           21:30  Bus 1 leaves
           22:00  Bus 2 leaves
 

     Thu.  08:45  Coffee
           09:00  Mosaicing and adding single dish data (ppt with audio, 27Mb)         Bob Sault
           10:00  Data Analysis (pdf, 3Mb), (ppt audio only, 38Mb)                     Naomi McClure-Griffiths
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Writing a proposal & using OPAL and ATOA                             Jessica Chapman
           12:30  Polarimetry I (pdf, 2Mb), (more)                                     Dave McConnell
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Tutorial 3
           14:30  Polarimetry II (ppt, 2.7Mb)                                          Rick Perley
           17:00  Q&A session
           18:00  Bus leaves site

     Fri.  08:45  Coffee
           09:00  Advanced Data Reduction (pdf, 3Mb), (ppt audio only, 32Mb)           Maxim Voronkov
           10:00  Telescopes of the World (ppt with audio, 65Mb)                       Phil Edwards
           11:00  Coffee
           12:30  Closing remarks
           13:00  BBQ Lunch
           14:00  Bushwalking & other tour options


Philip Edwards
Last modified: Fri 26 September 2008