| Sunday, July 10 |
0800 - 0900
| Breakfast
|
| 0900 - 1200 |
Conference Registration |
| 1200 - 1300 |
Lunch |
| 1300 - 1315 |
School Practicalities |
| 1315 - 1330 |
Welcome to Green Bank/An Overview of the GBT - K. O'Neil |
| 1330 - 1430 |
Science Highlights from the Arecibo and Green Bank Telescopes - J. Lockman, NRAO and C. Salter, NAIC |
| 1430 - 1530 |
An Introduction to Radio Astronomy Essentials - J. Condon, NRAO
Includes an overall description of the basic ideas of radio astronomy, such as
wavelengths, atmosphere, etc |
| 1530 - 1600 |
Coffee Break
IDL Q&A session for beginners |
| 1600 - 1700 |
Tracing the Signal down the Telescope - R. Maddalena, NRAO |
| 1700 - 1730 |
The Hands-On Projects; Organization and Logistics |
| 1730 - 1900 |
Dinner with Hands-on teams for strategy planning |
| 1900 - 0000 |
Hands-On Observing with the 40ft telescope |
| Monday, July 11 |
0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
| 0830 - 0930
| Fundamentals of Single-Dish Radio Astronomy, Part I - S. Ransom
Radiation Fundamentals
|
| 0930 - 1030
| Fundamentals of Single-Dish Radio Astronomy, Part II - J. Condon
Antennas and Radiometers (from a single-dish perspective)
|
| 1030 - 1045 |
Coffee Break |
| 1045 - 1230
| GBT Tours and discussion, in four groups (45 minutes each)
GBT telescope tour
Machine shop tour
Control room and electronics lab tour and discussion
Science and observing discussion
Arecibo remote observing
|
| 1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
| 1330 - 1430
| GBT Tours and discussion, in four groups (45 minutes each), continued
GBT telescope tour
Machine shop tour
Control room and electronics lab tour and discussion
Science and observing discussion (including Arecibo remote observing)
|
| 1430 - 1530
| A CASA Primer - J. Ott, NRAO
A primer on the use of CASA, particularly in single dish mode
|
| 1515 - 1530 |
Coffee Break |
| 1530 - 1630
| Spectral lines - D.J. Pisano, WVU
Includes spectral lines, recombination lines, radiative transfer, and molecular, and atomic sources
|
| 1630-1730
| Pulsars - S. Ransom, NRAO
Pulsar properties, searching and timing pulsars, small amount on time domain astronomy generally
|
| 1730 - 1900 |
Dinner |
| 1900 - 0000
| Hands-On Observing with the GBT, Arecibo, and 40ft
|
| Tuesday, July 12
| 0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
| 0830 - 0930
| Continuum - B. Mason, NRAO
An overview of thermal and non-thermal emission, observing issues (confusion, gain fluctuation)
|
| 0930 - 1030
| Polarization - C. Heiles, University of California, Berkeley
Includes Zeeman splitting, linear polarization, Stokes parameters, beam squint/squash, and Mueller matrices
|
| 1030 - 1130 |
Coffee Break
and RFI demo and tour of the anachoic chamber - W. Sizemore, NRAO and C. Beaudet, NRAO
|
| 1130 - 1200
| Frequency Management - K. O'Neil, NRAO
Spectrum allocation, radio quiet zones and coordination zones
|
| 1200 - 1230
| RFI Excision techniques - R. Fisher, NRAO
Overview of techniques available for RFI excision
|
| 1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
| 1330 - 1415
| Receivers types and uses - S. White, NRAO
An overview of receiver types - single feeds, traditional arrays, phased arrays, and bolometers
|
| 1415 - 1515
| The atmosphere, including weather - R. Maddalena, NRAO
Including the effects of the atmosphere on observations, ionospheric effects, refraction, opacity, wind-induced pointing errors, frequency-dependence of absorption, and anomalous refraction
|
| 1515 - 1530 |
Coffee Break |
| 1530 - 1630
| Signal Processing and FPGA Architecture - A. Roshi, NRAO and P. Demorest, NRAO
Signal Processing basics from the hardware perspective; GUPPI as a basis for FPGA architecture
|
| 1630 - 1730
| The LMT - P. Schleorb, University of Massachusettes
Brief overview of the Large Millimeter Telescope
|
| 1730 - 1900 |
Dinner |
| 1900 - 0000
| Hands-On Observing with GBT and Arecibo
|
| Wednesday, July 13 |
0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
| 0830 - 0930
| Planetary Radar - M. Nolan, NAIC
|
| 0930 - 1030
| Calibration and Data reduction techniques at cm through mm wavelengths - K. O'Neil
Basic techniques, including position switching, frequency switching, finding your "off" in a map
|
| 1030 - 1045 |
Coffee Break |
| 1045 - 1130
| Observing Extended Sources - J. Lockman, NRAO
Includes stray radiation
|
| 1130 - 1230
| Short Spacing Corrections from a Single-Dish Perspective - J. Ott, NRAO
Combining synthesis and single dish data
|
| 1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
| 1330 - 1730
| Hands-On Projects; Data reduction
|
| 1730 - 1900 |
Dinner |
| 1900 - 2100
| After dinner drinks and free time
|
| Thursday, July 14
| 0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
| 0830 - 0915
| Radio Transients - M. McLaughlin, WVU
|
| 0915 - 1000
| Radio telescopes from the software perspective - M. Clark, NRAO
|
| 1000 - 1030
| Online tools for Astronomers - D. Frayer, NRAO
|
| 1030 - 1045
| Coffee break
|
| 1045 - 1230
| Hands-On Projects - Data reduction
|
| 1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
| 1330 - 1530
| Hands-On Projects - Data reduction
|
| 1530 - 1630
| Coffee chat with the experts (hardware, software engineer and an astronomer) in three groups
|
| 1630 - 1715
| Astrobiology - T. Remijan, NRAO
|
| Friday, July 15
| 0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
| 0900 - 0930
| Writing Effective Telescope Proposals - C. Salter, NAIC
Using Arecibo as the example
|
| 0930 - 0945 |
GBT proposal specifics - T. Minter, NRAO
|
| 0945 - 1015
| Observing with coherent detector arrays - R. Minchin, NAIC
|
| 1015 - 1045
| Observing with bolometer arrays - B. Mason, NRAO
|
| 1045 - 1100 |
Coffee Break |
| 1100 - 1200
| ALMA as a Total Power Telescope - A. Wootten, NRAO
|
| 1200 - 1230
| Hands-on project preparation
|
| 1230 - 1330 |
Lunch |
| 1330 - 1430
| Hands-on project preparation/load talks!!!
|
| 1430 - 1530
| Hands-on Presentations (5-min talks)
|
| 1530 - 1545 |
Coffee Break |
| 1545 - 1645
| Hands-on Presentations (5-min talks)
|
| 1645 - 1730
| Closing Thoughts - The Future of Radio Astronomy -
|
| 1730 - 2130
| Outdoor barbeque with guest speaker and awarding of certificates - M. Devlin, University of Pennsylvania
|
| Saturday, July 16
| 0730 - 0830
| Breakfast
|
- | 0900 - on
| Local activity and participants Depart
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