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8th ATNF Synthesis Imaging School

ATNF Synthesis Imaging School 2008


Program


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

(program version 1.6, 26-sep)
     Mon.  08:30  Registration and coffee
           09:00  Introduction to the ATCA                       Phil Edwards
           10:00  Principles of Interferometry:
                      I: introduction, motivation and basics     Ron Ekers
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30     II: detailed theory                         Rick Perley
           12:30  Signal Processing                              Graeme Carrad
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Correlators and CABB                           Dick Ferris
           15:30  Coffee
           16:00  ASKAP & SKA                                    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                             Robert Braun
           10:00  Calibration and Editing                        Mark Wieringa
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Imaging and Deconvolution                      Mark Wieringa
           12:30  Spectral Line Observing                        Andrew Walsh
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Tutorial 1
                  (includes "The radio-astronomers IT toolkit"   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                                    Bob Sault
           10:00  Self Calibration                               Steven Tingay
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Error Recognition                              Ron Ekers
           12:30  Writing a proposal & using OPAL and ATOA       Jessica Chapman
           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          Bob Sault
           10:00  Data Analysis                                  Naomi McClure-Griffiths
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Polarimetry I                                  Dave McConnell
           12:30  Polarimetry II                                 Rick Perley
           13:30  Lunch
           14:30  Tutorial 3
           17:00  Q&A session
           18:00  Bus leaves site

     Fri.  08:45  Coffee
           09:00  Advanced Data Reduction                        Maxim Voronkov
           10:00  VLBI                                           Cormac Reynolds
           11:00  Coffee
           11:30  Telescopes of the World                        Phil Edwards
           12:30  Closing remarks
           13:00  BBQ Lunch
           14:00  Bushwalking & other tour options


Philip Edwards
Last modified: Fri 26 September 2008