NRAO Community Day at the UIUC

NRAO Community Day at the UIUC
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Date: June 20-21, 2014
Time: 2PM - 5PM (June 20), 9AM - 5PM (June 21)
Location: 134 Astronomy Building, Department of Astronomy, UIUC

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) cordially invites you to a NRAO Community Event following the Molecular Spectroscopy Symposium at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

This event is designed for all scientists and in particular for those who do not regularly utilize radio astronomy data in their research.

The workshop will be one and a half days long. On the afternoon of the first day we will provide an overview of the the ALMA telescope including a brief discussion of mm interferometry and an overview of the proposal preparation and submission process. On the second day we will dive into interferometric data processing and use CASA to reduce and analyze a sample ALMA Cycle 0 dataset.

Please register for the workshop at this link: https://science.nrao.edu/php/nrao-cd-uiuc/reg.php and please take the pre-workshop poll which will be sent to you upon with your email confirmation of the registration.

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