Programme

 

 

Time L/T Title Given by
Sunday, September 16, 2018
17:00-19:00   Registration at the Hotel de Borken
18:00-19:00   Welcome Reception at the Hotel de Borken
       
Monday, September 17, 2018
08:45   Welcome and opening remarks Emanuella Orru and Rene Vermeulen
09:00 L1 Scientific introduction Roberto Pizzo
09:30 L2 Low frequency introduction John McKean
10:15   Coffee break  
10:30 L3 Overview of LOFAR Michiel Brentjens
12:15   Lunch break  
14:00 L4 RO interaction Matthijs van der Wiel
14:30 L5 LTA Retrieval Thomas Franzen
15:00 L6 Quality assessment Vanessa Moss
15:30   Coffee break  
15:45 T1 Software installation Sarrvesh Sridhar
16:15-17:00   Q&A session  
       
18:30   Social dinner at Bospub, remembering Ger de Bruyn
       
       
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
09:00 L7

Removal of instrumental and external effects

(ionospheric effects)

 Tim Shimwell, Reinout van Weeren, Maaike Mevius
10:45   Coffee break  
11:00 L8 Radio Observatory processing Emanuella Orru
11:30   Q&A session  
12:15   Lunch break  
13:30 T2 Data editing Tammo Jan Dijkema
14:30 T3a Calibration part 1 Sarrvesh Sridhar
15:00   Coffee break  
15:15 T3b Calibration part 2 Sarrvesh Sridhar
       
17:30-19:30   Social activity at ‘t Hof van Dwingeloo
19:30   Optional dinner at ‘t Hof van Dwingeloo (participants’ own costs)
       
       
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
09:00 L9 Wide field imaging Bas van der Tol
09:45 T4a Wide field imaging part 1 Andre Offringa
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 T4b Wide field imaging part 2 Andre Offringa
12:30   Q&A session  
12:40   Lunch break  
14:00   Visit to LOFAR core (borrel at Cafe Bussemaker in Exloo)
       
19:00-20:30   Optional dinner at hotel de Borken (participants’ own costs)
21:00-21:45   Evening lecture by Raffaella Morganti “Life of radio galaxies”
       
       
Thursday morning, September 20, 2018 (interferometry/long baseline) -- Auditorium
09:00 T5a Direction independent calibration part 1 (Tutorial Handout) Wendy Williams
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 T5b Direction independent calibration part 2 (Tutorial Handout) Wendy Williams
11:15 L10 Long baseline calibration Leah Morabito
12:15 T5c Direction independent calibration part 3 (Tutorial Handout) Wendy Williams
12:45   Lunch break  
       
Thursday afternoon, September 20, 2018 (interferometry) -- Auditorium
14:00 T6a Direction dependent calibration/error analysis part 1 David Rafferty
15:30   Coffee break  
15:45-17:00 T6b Direction dependent calibration/error analysis part 2 David Rafferty
       
Thursday afternoon, September 20, 2018 (long baseline) -- Muller
14:00 T7a Long baseline calibration part 1 Marco Iacobell / Alexander Drabent
15:30   Coffee break  
15:45-17:00 T7b Long baseline calibration part 2 Marco Iacobell / Alexander Drabent
       
Thursday, September 20, 2018 (beamformed) -- Oort
09:00 L11 Beamformed observing modes Cees Bassa
10:00 T8 (part 1) Beamformed data inspection Cees Bassa
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 T8 (part 2) Beamformed data inspection Cees Bassa
11:30   Q&A session  
11:45 L12 Pulsar pipeline Vlad Kondratiev
12:45   Lunch break  
14:00 T9 PulP, LTA retrieval, pulsar flux calibration Vlad Kondratiev
15:30   Coffee break  
15:45-17:00 L13/T10 Transient buffer boards (Lecture / Instructions / Video ) Sander ter Veen
       
       
Friday morning, September 21, 2018 (interferometry) -- Auditorium
09:00 T6c Direction dependent calibration/error analysis part 3 David Rafferty
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 L14/T11 Polarization (Lecture / Tutorial) Marco Iacobelli
       
Friday morning, September 21, 2018 (long baseline) -- Muller
09:00 T7c Long baseline calibration part 3 Marco Iacobelli / Alexander Drabent
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 T7d Long baseline calibration part 4 Marco Iacobelli / Alexander Drabent
       
Friday morning, September 21, 2018 (beamformed) -- Oort
09:00 L15 Beamformed observations of the Sun Pietro Zucca (remote) /
Matthijs van der Wiel (local)
10:30   Coffee break  
10:45 T12 Beamformed observations of the Sun Pietro Zucca (remote) /
Matthijs van der Wiel (local)
       
Friday afternoon, September 21, 2018
12:45   Lunch break  
14:00   Q&A session  
14:30-15:00   Concluding remarks Organizers

 

 

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