Lecture Program
Sunday 9th September | ||
17:30 - 19:30 | REGISTRATION | |
Monday 10th September | ||
08:00 | REGISTRATION | |
09:00 | Eduardo Ros (LOC) | Welcome Address & Local Organization |
Richard Porcas (SOC) | Outline of the School Program | |
09:30 | Richard Porcas | Introduction to Radio Astronomy |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | Michael Garrett | General Introduction to Radio Interferometers |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Richard Porcas | Basis Theory of an Interferometer |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 | Walter Alef | Introduction to AIPS |
Tuesday 11th September | ||
09:00 | Simon Garrington | Introduction to Interferometry Analysis - Basis Mapping |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | Simon Garrington | Visibility Data Calibration, Editing, Averaging |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Andrei Lobanov | Self-Calibration and Hybrid Mapping |
15:00 | Simon Garrington | The MERLIN Array and eMERLIN |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 | Richard Strom | The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) |
16:30 | Tom Muxlow | Wide Field Interferometry |
Wednesday 12th September | ||
08:00 - 12:30 | Visit to the 100m Effelsberg Radio Telescope | |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Richard Porcas | Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) |
15:00 | Cormac Reynolds | The European VLBI Network (EVN) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 | Steve Tingay | VLBI in the Southern Hemisphere |
16:30 | Cormac Reynolds | VLBI Calibration and Mapping |
Thursday 13th September | ||
09:00 | Ger de Bruyn | Low Frequency Interferometry |
10:00 | Ger de Bruyn | The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) (see above, one .pdf-file for both lectures) |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | Tim Cawthorne | Theory of Polarization Interferometry |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
14:00 | Andrei Lobanov | Extracting Information from Images and UV Data |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 | Tiziana Venturi | The Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) |
16:30 | Ian Stewart | A Multi-Frequency Synthesis Mapping Algorithm |
Friday 14th September | ||
09:00 | Huib van Langevelde | The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) |
09:30 | Richard Porcas | Correlators |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | Rob Beswick | Theory of Spectral Line Interferometry |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
Frédéric Gueth | High-Frequency (MM-Wave) Interferometry | |
14:00 | Thomas Krichbaum | The Global 3-Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) |
15:00 | Steve Tingay | The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Beak | |
16:00 | Andrei Lobanov | The VLBI Space Observatory Programme - VSOP2 |
16:30 | Patrick Charlot | Astrometric Interferometry |
Saturday 15th September | ||
09:00 | Tiziana Venturi | Planning an Interferometer Observation |
09:45 | Andreas Brunthaler | A Case Study of a VLBI Experiment: Local Group Kinematics from VLBI Astrometry of H2O Maser |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | CONCLUDING SESSION | |
12:30 END OF SCHOOL | ||