The Third NEON School - Program
Programme
All lectures are in the ESO Auditorium if not stated otherwise. The tutorial exercises and practical work is located in the Council Room.
This is the final programme. Over the next few days we will bemaking the presentations available to you from this website (aspowerpoint and/or pdf files).
Thank you to all of the participants for making this school such a success!
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 27 August | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Welcome to the NEON Archive Observing School | Gaitee Hussain, Michel Dennefeld, Bruno Leibundgut |
| 10:00-11:00 | Observing at Modern Observatories pdf | Martino Romaniello |
| 11:15-12:15 | Optical Imaging ppt | Richard Hook |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Set up computing facilities and accounts | Helpdesk |
| 14:30-15:30 | Distribution of research projects | Tutors |
| 15:30-16:30 | Welcome reception | |
| Thursday 28 August | ||
| 09:00-10:30 | Spectroscopy I pdf | Michel Dennefeld |
| 10:45-11:45 | Spectroscopy II pdf | Heidi Korhonen |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-18:00 | Practical Work | All |
| Friday 29 August | ||
| 09:00-09:45 | Photometric Techniques I pdf | Sergio Ortolani |
| 10:00-10:45 | Photometric Techniques II pdf | Sergio Ortolani |
| 10:45-11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | VLTI ppt pdf | Andrea Richichi |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:00 | Introduction to the Virtual Observatory (VO) pdf | Paolo Padovani |
| 14:00-16:00 | VO Exercise pdf | Evanthia Hatziminaoglou |
| 16:00-18:00 | Practical Work | |
| Saturday 30 August | ||
| Free Morning | ||
| 13:00-18:00 | Practical work | All |
| Sunday 31 August | ||
| Day off/Practical work (optional) | ||
| Monday 01 September | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Overview of VLT Instrumentation pdf | Mark Casali |
| 10:00-11:00 | ALMA pdf | Tom Wilson |
| 11:00-18:00 | Practical Work & Lunch Break | All |
| Tuesday 02 September | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | ESO Phase I and II Procedures ppt | Gaitee Hussain |
| 10:00-11:00 | Basic principles of photon detectors used in Astronomy abstract pdf | Reinhold Dorn |
| 10:00-18:00 | Practical Work & Lunch Break | All |
| Wednesday 03 September | ||
| 09:00-14:00 | Practical Work & Lunch Break | All |
| 14:00-15:00 | Tour of X-Shooter | All |
| 15:00-18:00 | Practical Work | All |
| Thursday 04 September | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | History and Future of Telescopes pdf | Philippe Dierickx |
| 10:00-18:00 | Practical Work & Lunch Break | All |
| Friday 05 September | ||
| 09:00-12:30 | Project Presentations | |
| HST/ACS imaging and VLT/FORS spectroscopy of SGB stars in Omega Cen ppt | Xiaoying Pang, Peter Klagyivik, Hakan Senavci, Cesare Grava | |
| Photometry and spectroscopy of young stars in the halo of NGC 5128 pdf | Deborah Hunter, Daniel Miralles, Grigor Nikolov, Karsten Brogaard | |
| B-type stars in the Large & Small Magellanic Clouds ppt | Ana Maria Nicuesa, Robert Filgas, Rodolfo Angeloni, Lilit Hovhannisyan | |
| Pulsation periods of the rapid B subdwarf oscillator EC 05217-3914 ppt | Hugo Messias, Vasiliki Petropoulou, Veronica Sommariva, Gustav Stromback | |
| High Redshift Galaxies in the CFHT Legacy Survey pdf | Erkki Kankare, Stuart Sale, Sara Turriziani, Azamat Valeev | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:00 | Observing Possibilities in Europe | Michel Dennefeld |
| 14:00-15:00 | Job Prospects in Astronomy pdf | Harald Kuntschner |
| 15:00-16:30 | General discussion, feedback etc. | All |
| 16:30-18:00 | Wrap up and closing reception | All |