Where
Australia Telescope Compact Array, Narrabri
When
24-28 September 2001
Final Program
The committee organising the content of the workshop consists of Bob Sault, David McConnell, Lister Staveley-Smith, Roopesh Ohja and Emma Ryan-Weber. Your enquiries or suggestions about the content of the workshop are welcome.
Workshop Presentations
Material associated with the various workshop lectures, talk demonstrations, etc are included as links in the table below, as available. These are available in PowerPoint, postscript, Word or PDF formats
Monday
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Welcome (David McConnell) |
| 9:45 – 10:30 | Basic interferometry – I (Ray Norris) PPT / PDF |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Basic interferometry – II (David McConnell) PPT / PDF |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Overview of synthesis imaging (John Reynolds) PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Tutorials |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:10 | Fourier theory (Frank Stootman) Word / PDF |
| 2:10 – 2:45 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial and demo: Fourier theory (Vince McIntyre) Latex / PDF Special topic: Wavelets (Frank Stootman) Word / PDF |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Afternoon tea |
| 3:15 – 3:40 | Comparison of different radio telescopes (Michael Kesteven) PPT / PDF |
| 3:40 – 4:10 | Optical interferometry (Tim Bedding) PPT / PDF / Extra material (PDF) |
| 4:10 – 4:35 | SUSI (John Davis) PPT / PDF |
| 4:35 – 5:15 | Group feedback (led by Ray Norris and Emma Ryan-Weber) |
| Evening | Workshop Reception at the array |
| Optical observing (weather permitting!) |
Tuesday
| 9:00 – 9:25 | Antennas (Michael Kesteven) PPT / PDF |
| 9:25 – 9:50 | Receivers (Russell Gough) PDF |
| 9:50 – 10:10 | Correlators (Warwick Wilson) PPT / PDF |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Advanced ATNF correlators (Dick Ferris) PPT / PDF | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 11:35 | Sensitivity and basic radiometry (Ravi Subrahmanyan) PDF |
| 11:35 – 12:10 | Visibility calibration and flagging (Mark Wieringa) PPT / PDF |
| 12:10 – 12:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Water vapour radiometry (Bob Sault) PPT / PDF | |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 5:00 | Observatory tour |
Wednesday
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Basic imaging (John Reynolds) PPT / PDF |
| 9:30 – 10:10 | Deconvolution and MFS (Bob Sault) PPT / PDF |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Imaging errors (Dave Rayner) PPT / PDF | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Non-image analysis and selfcalibration (Steven Tingay) PPT / PDF |
| 11:40 – 12:30 | Group feedback (led by Ray Norris and Emma Ryan-Weber) |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Polarimetry (Roopesh Ojha) PPT / PDF |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | VLBI (Steven Tingay) PPT / PDF |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Random media in radio astronomy (Barney Rickett) PPT / PDF | |
| 3:00 – 5:00 | Practical session Miriad practical session (David Rayner) PS / PDF aips++ practical session (Neil Killeen) Single dish technique practical session (Bob Sault) PDF |
| Evening | Workshop Dinner at the array |
| “Radioastrology” (John Storey) |
Thursday
| 9:00 – 9:30 | Image analysis (Jim Lovell) PPT / PDF |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Interferometric spectral line imaging (Martin Zwaan) PPT / PDF |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Spectral line VLBI (Chris Phillips) PPT / PDF | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Single dish spectral line observing (Lister Staveley-Smith) PPT / PDF |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Spectral line image analysis and visualisation (Baerbel Koribalski) PPT / PDF |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: GIPSY image analysis (Erwin de Blok) | |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 2:00 | Mosaicing (Erwin de Blok) PPT / PDF |
| 2:00 – 2:30 | Single dish/interferometer combination (Naomi McClure-Griffiths) PPT / PDF |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: Advanced visualisation (Malte Marquarding) | |
| 3:00 – 5:00 | Practical session |
Friday
| 9:00 – 9:30 | mm astronomy (John Storey) PPT / PDF |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | mm techniques (Tony Wong) PPT / PDF |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | (parallel sessions) Tutorial |
| Special topic: ALMA (Wim Brouw) PPT / PDF | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Morning tea |
| 11:00 – 11:40 | Telescopes of the Future – SKA and SKA demonstrators (Elaine Sadler) PPT / PDF |
| 11:40 – 12:15 | Practical observing strategies (Jessica Chapman) PPT / PDF |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Conclusion |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 – 5:00 | Bushwalking (Mark Wieringa) or observing |
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