Schedule
The schedule of the 17th Synthesis Imaging Workshop will be very busy. In our attempt to accommodate for the participants' time zones as much as possible, some sessions will be delivered multiple times. Please see notes below for explanation.
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LECTURES
"Single session" means the lecture session is open to every participant.
"Session #1, Session #2" means that the list of participants scheduled to join one of these sessions will be pre-assigned, with the priority given to the participants from the most disadvantages time zones.
If an effort to accommodate different, and often difficult, time zones, we request the participants attend the Lecture Q&A session based on their time zones:
For lecture sessions: "Basics of Radio Astronomy", "Error Recognition", "Image & Non-imaging analysis", "Antennas & Receiver Systems", "Polarization":
Session #1 -- participants in time zones: UTC-5 to UTC+4.5
Session #2 -- participants in time zones: UTC-8 to UTC-6 and UTC+5 to UTC+12
"Advanced Calibration"
Session #1 -- participants in time zones: UTC-8 to UTC-5 and UTC+8 to UTC+12
Session #2 -- participants in time zones: UTC-4 to UTC+7
"Wideband and widefield imaging"
Session #1 -- participants in time zones: UTC-4 to UTC+7
Session #2 -- participants in time zones: UTC-8 to UTC-5 and UTC+8 to UTC+12
"Mosaicking"
Session #1 -- participants in time zones: UTC-6 to UTC
Session #2 -- participants in time zones: UTC-8 to UTC-7 and UTC+1 to UTC+12
TUTORIALS
Only signed-up participants can join the tutorial sessions. Participants will receive an email with information on which session they are assigned to.
"Single session" means the session is open to every participant signed-up for the tutorial.
"Open session" means the session is open to every participant signed-up for the tutorial, and the participants can join whichever session they prefer.
"Session #1, Session #2, Session #3" means that the list of participants scheduled to join one of these sessions will be pre-assigned, with the priority given to the participants from the most disadvantages time zones.
If you would like to see the schedule in a spreadsheet, download the pdf here.
Schedule by Topic
| Welcome words | ||
| Welcome from NRAO | Mark McKinnon (Assistant Director, NRAO) | Monday, 29 June 08:45-09:00 MDT (14:45-15:00 UTC) |
| Lecture Q&A sessions | ||
| Week 1 (29 June - 02 July) | ||
| Basics of Radio Astronomy | Lisa Young (NMT) | Session #1: Monday, 29 June, 09:00-10:00 MDT (15:00-16:00 UTC) Session #2: Monday, 29 June, 16:00-17:00 MDT (22:00-23:00 UTC) |
| Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry I | Rick Perley (NRAO) | Single session: Monday, 29 June, 11:00-12:00 MDT (17:00-18:00 UTC) |
| Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry II - Advanced Topics | Rick Perley (NRAO) | Single session: Monday, 29 June, 13:30-14:30 MDT (19:30-20:30 UTC) |
| Basics of Radio Interferometry - Geometry | Rick Perley (NRAO) | Single session: Monday, 29 June, 15:00-16:00 MDT (21:00-22:00 UTC) |
| Calibration | George Moellenbrock (NRAO) | Single session: Tuesday, 30 June, 08:30-10:30 MDT (14:30-16:30 UTC) |
| Advanced Calibration | Crystal Brogan (NRAO/UVA) | Session #1: Tuesday, 30 June, 13:00-14:30 MDT (19:00-20:30 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Wednesday, 01 July, 12:00-13:30 MDT (18:00-19:30 UTC) |
| Imaging & Deconvolution | David Wilner (CfA, Harvard) | Single session: Wednesday, 01 July, 08:00-09:30 MDT (14:00-15:30 UTC) |
| Wideband & Widefield Imaging | Urvashi Rao (NRAO) | Session #1: Wednesday, 01 July, 10:00-11:00 MDT (16:00-17:00 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Thursday, 02 July, 12:00-13:00 MDT (18:00-19:00 UTC) |
| Error Recognition | Greg Taylor (UNM) | Note: Delivered together with "Image & non-imaging analysis" Session #1: Wednesday, 01 July, 14:30-16:00 MDT (20:30-22:00 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Thursday, 02 July, 09:00-10:30 MDT (15:00-16:30 UTC) |
| Image & Non-imaging analysis | Greg Taylor (UNM) | Note: Delivered together with "Error Recognition" Session #1: Wednesday, 01 July, 14:30-16:00 MDT (20:30-22:00 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Thursday, 02 July, 09:00-10:30 MDT (15:00-16:30 UTC) |
| Mosaicking | Brian Mason (NRAO) | Session #1: Tuesday, 02 July, 13:30-14:30 MDT (19:30-20:30 UTC) Session #2: see week 2 |
| Antennas & Receiver Systems | Mark McKinnon (NRAO) | Session #1: Wednesday, 01 July, 16:00-17:00 MDT (22:00-23:00 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Thursday, 02 July, 10:30-11:30 MDT (16:30-17:30 UTC) |
| Cross-correlators | Adam Deller (Swinburne U.) | Single session: Tuesday, 30 June, 16:00-17:00 MDT (22:00-23:00 UTC) |
| Week 2 (06 - 10 July) | ||
| Low frequency interferometry | Tracy Clarke (NRL) | Session #1: Monday, 06 Jul, 08:00-09:00 MDT (14:00-15:00 UTC) <br\>Session #2: Wednesday, 08 Jul, 13:30-14:30 MDT (19:30-20:30 UTC) |
| Spectral Lines | Ylva Pihlstrom (UNM) | Single session: Tuesday, 07 Jul, 12:30-13:30 MDT (18:30-19:30 UTC) |
| Very Long Baseline Interferometry | Adam Deller<br\> (Swinburne U.) | Single session: Monday, 06 July, 16:00-17:00 MDT (22:00-23:00 UTC) |
| Array Design | Craig Walker (NRAO) | Single session: Monday, 06 July, 10:30-11:30 MDT (16:30-17:30 UTC) |
| Polarization | Frank Schinzel (NRAO) | Session #1: Tuesday, 07 July, 15:00-16:00 MDT (21:00-22:00 UTC)<br\> Session #2: Wednesday, 08 July, 11:30-12:30 MDT (17:30-18:30 UTC) |
| Mosaicking | Brian Mason (NRAO) | Session #1: see week 1<br\> Session #2: Wednesday, 08 July, 07:30-08:30 MDT (13:30-14:30 UTC) |
| Tutorials & Tutorial Q&A sessions | ||
| VLA | ||
| VLA CASA Continuum data reduction, 3C391 | Frank Schinzel (NRAO) & Amy Kimball (NRAO) | Session #1: Thursday, 02 July, 15:00-17:00 MDT (21:00-23:00 UTC) Session #2: Thursday, 16 July, 09:00-11:00 MDT (15:00-17:00 UTC) |
| VLA CASA Spectral Line data reduction, IRC+10216 | Juergen Ott (NRAO) & Lorant Sjouwerman (NRAO) | Session #1: Monday, 06 July, 14:00-16:00 MDT (20:00-22:00 UTC) Session #2: Friday, 17 July, 09:00-11:00 MDT (15:00-17:00 UTC) |
| VLA Observation Preparation Tool | Heidi Medlin (NRAO) & Tony Perreault (NRAO) | Single session: Monday, 13 July, 10:00-12:00 MDT (16:00-18:00 UTC) |
| VLA Pipeline | Drew Medlin (NRAO) & John Tobin (NRAO) | Session #1: Thursday, 09 July, 11:00-13:00 MDT (17:00-19:00 UTC) Session #2: Friday, 10 July, 13:00-15:00 MDT (19:00-21:00 UTC) |
| VLBA | ||
| VLBA data reduction | Amy Mioduszewski (NRAO) | Open session: Wednesday, 08 July, 09:00-11:00 MDT (15:00-17:00 UTC) Open session: Wednesday, 15 July, 15:00-17:00 MDT (21:00-23:00 UTC) |
| LWA | ||
| Introduction to Low Frequency Array (LWA) data reduction | Greg Taylor (UNM) | Session #1: Tuesday, 07 July, 09:00-12:00 MDT (15:00-18:00 UTC) Session #2: Thursday, 09 July, 16:00-19:00 MDT (22:00-01:00 UTC) |
| LWA data reduction in practise | Greg Taylor (UNM) | Single session: Friday, 10 July, 09:00-13:00 MDT (15:00-19:00 UTC) |
| ALMA | ||
| ALMA Pipeline | Devaky Kunneriath (NRAO) & Ryan Loomis (NRAO) | Session #1: Monday, 13 July, 07:30-09:30 MDT (13:30-15:30 UTC) Session #2: Tuesday, 14 July, 13:00-15:00 MDT (19:00-21:00 UTC) |
| ALMA Manual Calibration & Imaging. Part 1 | Amanda Kepley (NRAO), Brian Mason (NRAO), Anthony Remijan (NRAO) |
Session #1: Tuesday, 14 July, 07:00-09:00 MDT (13:00-15:00 UTC) Session #2: Tuesday, 14 July, 10:00-12:00 MDT (16:00-18:00 UTC) Session #3: Wednesday, 15 July, 12:30-14:30 MDT (18:30-20:30 UTC) |
| ALMA Manual Calibration & Imaging. Part 2 |
Amanda Kepley (NRAO), |
Session #1: Thursday, 16 July, 07:00-09:00 MDT (13:00-15:00 UTC) Session #2: Friday, 17 July, 11:30-13:30 MDT (17:30-19:30 UTC) Session #3: Thursday, 16 July, 12:30-14:30 MDT (18:30-20:30 UTC) |
| Other events | ||
| Farewell | Anna Kapinska (NRAO) | Friday, 17 July, 14:00 MDT (20:00 UTC) |
