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--- uva_msc_radioastronomy_2013 [2013/04/23 19:22] – [April 18, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry I: The Basics - Jason] wise
+++ uva_msc_radioastronomy_2013 [2013/05/23 06:39] (current) – [May 21, 2013 - The Future of Radio Astronomy - Michael] wise
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 ==== April 22, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry II: Calibration - Michael ====
-Lecture 7
+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture7.pdf|Lecture 7}}
    * Definition of Calibration
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 ==== April 25, 2013 - The Techniques of Radio Interferometry III: Imaging - Michael ====
-   * Basic Imaging, Visibilities, uv Sampling, Fourier Transforms
+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture8.pdf|Lecture 8}}
-   * Beams, Dirty Beams, Dirty Images, Gridding, Weighting
-   * Deconvolution, Clean, Maximum Entropy, Multi-scale Clean, Adaptive-scale Pixel Clean
-   * Image Quality, Noise, Dynamic Range, Fidelity
-   * Wide-band imaging, Sensitivity, Bandwidth Smearing, Frequency dependent effects, Multi-frequency Synthesis
-   * Wide-field Imaging, Non-coplanar Arrays, W-projection, A-projection, Mosaicing
-   * Faraday Rotation-Measure Synthesis
-==== May 2, 2013 - Field Trip to LOFAR and Westerbork - Michael + Joeri + Jason + Dario ====
+   * Imaging and Deconvolution
+   * Image Quality, Noise, Dynamic Range
+   * Wide-band imaging, Multi-frequency Synthesis
+   * Wide-field imaging, Facet Imaging, W-Projection
+   * Mosaicing
-==== May 6, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy I: Single-dish techniques - Joeri ====
+==== May 2, 2013 - Field Trip to LOFAR and Westerbork - Michael + Joeri + Jason ====
+==== May 6, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy I: Single-dish techniques - Joeri  ====
+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture9.pdf|Lecture 9}}
    * Main differences between imaging and single-dish time domain astronomy
    * High-time resolution recording
-   * Interplanetary scintillation
    * Pulsar properties
    * Pulsar timing
 ==== May 13, 2013 - The Techniques of Time-Domain Radio Astronomy II: High time resolution with interferometers - Jason ====
+{{ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture10.pdf| Lecture 10 }}
     * Comparison with single-dish observations.
     * Incoherent vs. coherent summation.
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     * Fast imaging.
     * Advanced techniques.
-==== May 16, 2013 - Project Presentations - Michael + Jason + Dario ====
+==== May 16, 2013 - NAC 2013 ====
+   * No lecture because of NAC conference.
 ==== May 21, 2013 - The Future of Radio Astronomy - Michael ====
-   * New Radio Telescopes, MeerKAT, ASKAP, SKA
+{{:ra_uva:ra_uva_lecture11.pdf|Lecture 11}}
-   * New Non-radio Telescopes, JWST, ELT, LSST
-   * Computational and Algorithmic Challenges
+   * The Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
-   * Networks, Storage, Computing, Databases, Software
+   * SKA Pathfinders
-   * Data Intensive Astronomy, Large-scale Data Management, Visualization and Analysis
+   * SKA Computational Challenges
-   * The Rise of Data Centers, Archives, and the Virtual Observatory
+   * Data Intensive Astronomy
    * Beyond the SKA
-==== May 23, 2013 - Final Exam - Dario + one other ====
+==== May 23, 2013 - Project Presentations - All ====
+==== May 24, 2013 - Deadline for written observing proposals and data analysis project ====
+==== May 28, 2013 - Final Exam (13-16h) - All ====
 ===== Lab Notes =====