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
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