Program

09:00 - 09:10 — Welcome and Overview of Workshop

09:10 - 09:50 — ALMA Overview and Capabilities

09:50 - 10:20 — Coffee Break

10:20 - 11:10 — Radio Interferometry Basics

11:10 - 12:00 — Proposal Preparation + ALMA Data Products

12:00 - 13:00 — Lunch (provided for registered participants)

13:00 - 13:30 — The ALMA Observing Tool

13:30 - 14:30 — Introduction to CASA: Including ALMA Imaging + Simulations

14:30 - 15:00 — Tea Break and move to hands-on time

Hands-on time with 2 rooms doing (1) OT and (2) Imaging —> participants can swap rooms at 4pm

15:00 - 16:00 — Hands-on time #1

simulation activity

OT hands on exercise

OT activity .aot file

16:00 - 17:00 — Hands-on time #2

Download ALMA OT here

Download CASA 5.1.1 here.

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