Program

10:30 - 10:40 Welcome coffee & event logistics
10:40 - 11:40 ALMA Overview and Interferometry Basics (Eltha Teng)
11:40 - 12:00 Science Talk (Keaton Donaghue): "Enshrouded in Dust: Using ALMA to Probe the Embedded Super Star Clusters in NGC 253"
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (provided for in-person attendees)
13:00 - 13:30 Verifying data, scripts, and using CASA and CARTA
13:30 - 14:30 Tutorial: continuum maging and self-calibration with CASA (Eltha Teng)
14:30 - 14:50 Short break
14:50 - 16:20 Tutorial: imaging array combination with feathering and advanced methods (Peter Teuben)
16:20 - 16:45 Tutorial: data visualization with CARTA (Eltha & Peter)
16:45 - 17:00 Wrap-up & survey

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The NSF National Radio Astronomy Observatory and NSF Green Bank Observatory are facilities of the U.S. National Science Foundation operated under cooperative agreement by Associated Universities, Inc.