Program & Presentations at the
8th ATNF Synthesis Imaging School
29 September — 3 October, 2008
(program version 1.7, 30-sep)
| Monday 8:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 09:00 | Introduction to the ATCA (ppt with audio, 37Mb) | Phil Edwards |
| 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) | |
| Tuesday 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 | |
| Wednesday 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 | |
| Thursday 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 | Polarimetry II (ppt, 2.7Mb) | Rick Perley |
| 17:00 | Q&A session | |
| 18:00 | Bus leaves site | |
| Friday 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