The Key Science Project on Cosmic Magnetism workshop
Workshop: 19 - 20 April 2010 - 'Busy days': 21 - 23 April 2010
Comments
The meeting will focus on reports and progress from the Management Team and Working Groups, as well as about early access observations. The Busy Days will contain an introduction to and work on LOFAR data reduction.
Busy Day participants are strongly recommended to examine the latest version of the LOFAR Imaging Cookbook.
A set of parameter files needed for the data processing is available here. *** Update 20 April: parset file for the flagger is still outdated IDPPP. Parset files for the new NDPPP made by David Rafferty can be found on wiki, or on forum.***
5B More up to date information about (testing of) the Imaging Pipeline can be found on the LOFAR forum (login required).
The LOFAR Wiki page gives information on e.g. how to get access to the cluster and background documentation.
In particular, check out the presentations given at the LOFAR Data Processing School early last year are excellent introductions to the topics.
John Swinbank's talk in this meeting (20 April) can be found here.
Workshop Program
Monday 19
location: Colloquium room
| 12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch and registration | 13:30-15:30 | Status updates and discussion - Rainer Beck: Welcome and MKSP Status - Michael Wise: LOFAR Status - George Heald: Update of imaging busy weeks - Antonis Polatidis: Status of scheduled commissioning proposals and MS3 Discussion about use of MS3 for MKSP |
15:30 - 16:00 | coffee/tea | 16:00-whenever | Break-out with discussions of all working groups (In colloquium room, Muller room and Minnaert room) |
evening | Dinner in Dwingeloo |
Tuesday 20
location: Colloquium room
| 9:00 - 10:00 | Reports from working group chairs | 10:00 - 10:30 | Discussion about program adjustments and priorities | 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee/tea | 11:00 - 12:30 | Science talks (preliminary titles) - Ger de Bruyn: Galactic foreground in the direction of cluster A2255 - George Heald: Westerbork SINGS - Michiel Brentjens: RM Synthesis observations towards the Perseus clusters - Rainer Beck: progress on RM Synthesis - Jess Broderick: Polarimetric properties of the CSS source B1221-423 |
12:30 - 14:00 | lunch | 14:00 | start Busy Days - introduction to LOFAR data processing: - John Swinbank: Getting started with LOFAR imaging - George Heald: RM synthesis on visibility data - Ger de Bruyn: Available MKSP Data sets - James Anderson: Overview of tasks, goals and teams for Busy Days |
'Busy days' Program:
Wednesday 21
location: Hooghoudt room
| Work on data |
Thursday 22
location: Hooghoudt room
| Work on data |
Friday 23
location: Hooghoudt room
| Work on data |