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-----------------------------------------------Single-Dish Summer School #7: 10-17 July, 2013
-----------------------------------------------Wednesday, July 10
-----------------1400 - 1800
1800+
Conference Registration
Reception/Dinner by pool
Thursday, July 11
----------------0800 - 0900
Breakfast
0800 - 0900
Conference Registration (Contd.)
0900 - 0915
School Practicalities – TBD
0915 - 0930
Welcome to Arecibo/An Overview of the Gordon 305-m Telescope – Fernando or Chris?
0930 - 1030
Science Highlights from the Arecibo & Green Bank Telescopes - J. Lockman, NRAO, and
C. Salter, NAIC
1030 - 1100
Coffee Break
(Get Jim, Ron & Scott to decide who covers what in the following talks)
1100 - 1200
An Introduction to Radio Astronomy Essentials - J. Condon
1200 - 1300
Lunch
1300 - 1400
Fundamentals of Single-Dish Radio Astronomy, Part I - S. Ransom
(Radiation Fundamentals)
1400 - 1500
Fundamentals of Single-Dish Radio Astronomy, Part II - J. Condon
(Antennas and Radiometers from a single-dish perspective. Includes an overall
description of the basic ideas of radio astronomy)
1500 - 1530
Coffee Break
1530 - 1630
Tracing the Signal down the Telescope - R. Maddalena (?)
1630 - 1700
IDL Q&A session for beginners (?)
1700 - 1730
The Hands-On Projects; Organization and Logistics
1730 - 1900
Dinner with Hands-on teams for strategy planning
1900 - 2100
After dinner drinks and free time
1900 - 0000
Hands-On Observing GBT
Friday, July 12
--------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0900 - 1000
Spectral lines - Dave F? (Includes atomic/molecular spectral lines, recombination
lines, radiative transfer, and celestial line sources)
1000 - 1030
Coffee Break
1030 - 1230
Observatory tours and discussion, in four groups (~45 minutes each)
(Tours of control room, electronics lab, lidar lab, etc.
Science and observing discussion groups)
1230 - 1330
Lunch
1330 - 1430
Tours and discussion groups (continued)
(Tours of control room, electronics lab, lidar lab, etc.
Science and observing discussion groups)
1430 - 1500
Coffee Break
1500 - 1600
Continuum Observing - B. Mason
(An overview of thermal and non-thermal emission, observing
issues, e.g. confusion, gain fluctuations, etc.)
1600 - 1700
Pulsars - S. Ransom/F. Camilo (?)
(Pulsar properties, searching and timing pulsars, NanoGRAV, etc.)
1730 - 1900
Dinner
1900 - 2100
After dinner drinks and free time
1900 - 0000
Hands-On Observing with the GBT & Arecibo
Saturday, July 13
----------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0830 - 0930
Calibration and Data reduction techniques for cm through
mm wavelengths - K. O'Neil (Basic techniques, including position switching, frequency
switching, finding your "off" in a map)
0930 - 1030
The atmosphere, including weather - R. Maddalena (?)
(Including atmospheric effects on observations, ionospheric effects, refraction, opacity,
wind-induced pointing errors, frequency-dependence of absorption, and anomalous
refraction)
1030 - 1100
Coffee Break
1100 - 1130
RFI demo - A. Vazquez (?)
1130 - 1200
Frequency Management - K. O'Neil
(Spectrum allocation, radio quiet and coordination zones)
1200 - 1330
Lunch
1330 - 1430
Receivers -- types and uses - Dana Whitlow (?)
(An overview of receiver types - single feeds, traditional
arrays, phased arrays, and bolometers)
1430 - 1530
Signal Processing Basics - ?
1530 - 1600
Coffee Break
1600 - 1700
Polarization - C. Heiles, University of California, Berkeley
(Includes linear & circular polarization, Zeeman Splitting, Mueller Matrices)
Other Single Dishes - TBD (R. Prestage ?)
1730 - 1900
Dinner
1900 - 2100
After dinner drinks and free time
1900 - 0000
Hands-On Observing with GBT & Arecibo
Sunday, July 14
--------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0830 - 0930
Observing Extended Sources - J. Lockman
(Includes stray radiation)
0930 - 1030
Planetary Radar - M. Nolan
1030 - 1100
Coffee Break
1100 - 1200
Short Spacing Corrections from a Single-Dish Perspective - Amanda Kepley (?)
(Combining synthesis and single dish data)
1200 - 1230
Star Formation and Single dish Telescopes – what can we learn? – Dave Frayer (?)
1230 - 1330
Lunch
1330 - 1730
Hands-On Projects; Data reduction
1730 - 1900
Dinner
1900 - 2100
After dinner drinks and free time
1900 - 0000
Hands-On Observing with Arecibo
Monday, July 15
--------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0830 - 0930
TBD [What telescope information have we missed? What about a detailed talk about
how phased array feeds work?]
0930 - 1000
Radio telescopes from the software perspective - Prakash Atreya & Paul Marganian (?)
1000 - 1030
Coffee break
1030 - 1230
Hands-On Projects - Data reduction
1230 - 1330
Lunch
1330 - 1530
Hands-On Projects - Data reduction
1530 - 1630
Coffee break, featuring chat with the experts
(hardware, software engineer and an astronomer in
each of three groups)
1630 - 1700
Writing Effective Telescope Proposals - C. Salter (Using Arecibo as the example)
1700 - 1715
GBT proposal specifics - T. Minter (?)
1730 - 1900
1900 - 2100
Dinner
After dinner drinks and free time
Tuesday, July 16
---------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0830 - 0915
Observing techniques with coherent detector arrays - R. Minchin
0915 - 0945
Observing techniques with bolometer arrays - B. Mason
0945 - 1015
Coffee break
1015 - 1130
1130 - 1230
The Alfa Surveys (Members of the Arecibo Staff)
Single Dish Telescopes Now and into the Future – Karen? (I would at least like time to
talk about the GBT and its current and future within the broader context of ALMA, SKA,
etc; As Arecibo would have been discussed );
1230 - 1330
Lunch
1330 - 1500
1500 - 1530
1530 - 1600
1600 - 1730
1730 - 1800
1800 - 2130
Hands-on project preparation
Hands-on project preparation/load talks!!!
Coffee Break
Hands-on Presentations (5-min talks)
Closing Thoughts - The Future of Radio Astronomy – Fernando?
Barbecue/banquet with guest speaker (TBD) and awarding
of certificates
Wednesday, July 17
-----------------0730 - 0830
Breakfast
0900 - on
Local activity and participants Depart