Programme of lectures and tutorials
Programme Overview
- Day 1, September 6th 2015
- Day 2, September 7th 2015
- Day 3, September 8th 2015
- Day 4, September 9th 2015
- Day 5, September 10th 2015
The programme is under development and will be updated.
L1-17 (normally 45 min) are lectures.
T1-10 are hands-on tutorial sessions. T8 is a special tutorial in which groups of participants work together to write outline proposals for interferometric observing.
Poster Papers
We encourage participants in the School to bring posters describing their work. The posters will be on display in the lobby of the new ESO Headquarters Building for the duration of the school. The display area available per poster is limited to 60 cm (w) x 100 cm (h). Hence the accepted poster size is A1 (59.4 cm x 84.1 cm).
| Day 1, Sunday September 6 |
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| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:20 | Robert Laing |
Opening/Welcome |
| 09:30 | Neil Jackson | L1: A Gentle introduction to Radio Interferometry (slides 1-41 of the pdf; the rest is L7) |
| 10:15 | Robert Laing | L2: Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:30 | Robert Laing |
T1: Fun with Fourier Transforms |
| 12:15 | John McKean | L3: Modern Radio Interferometers |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Anita Richards | L4: Data packages and formats |
| 14:30 | Andre Offringa | L5: Data editing and radio frequency interference |
| 15:15 | George Heald |
L6: Calibration |
| 16:00 | Tea | |
| 16:30 | Andy Biggs |
T2: Data editing Script Data download instructions |
| 18:00 | Robert Laing | Introduction to "Writing a Proposal" tutorials |
| 18:15 | Close | |
| Day 2, Monday September 7th |
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| 08:50 |
LOC announcements |
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| 09:00 | Anita Richards |
T3: Calibration Data download: see T2 Instructions |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 |
Neil Jackson |
L7: Introduction to imaging (scroll down to slide 42 for the imaging part) movie1 movie2 |
| 11:45 | John McKean |
T4: Basic imaging Script |
| 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 |
Katharine Johnston |
L8: Spectral-line interferometry |
| 15:00 |
Vincent Pietu |
L9: mm/sub-mm interferometry |
| 15:45 |
Break | |
| 16:15 |
Katharine Johnston |
T5: Spectral-line interferometry Data download Script |
| 18:00 | Close | |
| Buffet Supper | ||
| 20:00 | Katherine Blundell | Evening Science Lecture: SS433 |
| 21:00 | End of Day | |
| Day 3, Tuesday September 8th |
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| 08:50 | LOC Announcements | |
| 09:00 | Andre Offringa | L10: Advanced Imaging |
| 09:45 | Bob Campbell | L11: Very Long Baseline interferometry |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Minnie Mao/ Lorant Sjouwerman |
T6: Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
| Continuation of earlier tutorials |
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| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | John McKean | L12: Low-frequency Interferometry |
| 14:15 | John McKean |
T7: Self-calibration and multi-frequency synthesis Script Script2 with model and mask (tar file) |
| 15:45 | Break |
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| 16:15 | Tiziana Venturi | L13: Proposals and Scheduling |
| 17:00 | T8: Writing a Proposal (Group session 1) | |
| 18:00 | Close | |
| Conference Dinner | ||
| 20:00 | Tim de Zeeuw | Evening Lecture: "What ESO Does" |
| 21:00 | End of day | |
| Day 4, Wednesday September 9th |
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| 08:50 | LOC Announcements | |
| 09:00 | Robert Laing | L14: Continuum error recognition and image analysis |
| 09:45 | Anita Richards |
T9: Continuum error recognition and image analysis Data download: see T2 Instructions |
| 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:30 | Ivan Marti-Vidal | L15: Polarization |
| 12:15 | T10: Advanced topics Locations |
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| Minnie Mao |
T10A: VLBI | |
| John McKean |
T10B: Wide-field imaging | |
| Katharine Johnston |
T10C: Spectral line Script1 Script2 |
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| Ivan Marti-Vidal |
T10D: Polarization Script Script2 Data download |
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| 13:15 | Lunch | |
| 14:15 | T10: Advanced topics (continued) Locations |
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| 15:15 | Close | |
| Free afternoon and evening |
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| Day 5, Thursday September 10th |
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| 09:00 | T8: Writing a proposal (group sessions 2) | |
| 10:30 | Break | |
| 11:00 | Lorant Sjouwerman/Liz Humphreys |
L16: Pipelines (part 1 / part 2) |
| 11:45 |
Tiziana Venturi | L17: Archives and Legacy Data |
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | T8: Presentations of proposals |
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| 15:30 | Concluding remarks |
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| 15:45 | End of School | |