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 

 


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