Programme

 

The programme for the school is attached.

 

Links to the presentation streams for:

L= Lecture, D = Lecture with demos, T = Demo with tutorial material included

Time L/D/T Title Given by
Monday, March 22, 2021
SESSION (plenary chair C. Bassa):
Science opportunities & instrument capabilities; telescope/data access
09:00 L1 Welcome and start school R. Vermeulen, M. Iacobelli
09:15 L2 Low frequency introduction J. McKean
10:05 L3 LOFAR overview pt1 M. Brentjens
11:00   Coffee break  
11:20 L4 LOFAR overview pt2 M. Brentjens
12:20 D1 Accessing the LOFAR telescope E. Orru'
12:55   Lunch  
       
SESSION (plenary chair T. Shimwell):
Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal
13:55 T1 Removal of instrumental effects: Losoto H. Elder
14:45 D2 Removal of ionospheric effects: Rmextract M. Mevius
15:30   Coffee break  
15:45 D3 Raw data quality assessment T. Franzen
16:15   Q&A  
16:30   Hands-on session: LOSOTO  
17:00   Social event LOFAR QUIZ LOC
17:30   Program end  
       
 
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
SESSION (plenary chair T. Franzen):
Direction independent processing & wide field imaging
09:05 T2 Direction independent calibration: PreFactor A. Drabent
10:05 D4 Quality assessment of calibrated data W. Williams
11:05   Coffee Break  
11:25 T3 Wide field imaging A. Offringa
12:30   Q&A  
13:00   Lunch  
       
SESSION (plenary chair S. ter Veen):
Beamforming (and Imaging) with LOFAR: observing & processing
14:00 D5 Beamforming with LOFAR C. Bassa
14:45 T4A
T4B
Processing beamformed data: Pulp
- Pulp tutorial
V. Kondratiev
15:45   Coffee break  
16:00 D6 Combining BF&IMG observing modes P. Zucca
16:45 T5 Beamformed dynamic spectrum and Imaging P. Zucca
17:15   Q&A
17:30   Program end
       
 
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
SESSION (parallel chair M. Mevius): Imaging: Direction dependent Errors
09:00 T6 Factor pipeline M. Iacobelli
09:45 T7 DDFacet KillMS pipeline E. Bonnassieux
10:15   Coffee break  
10:30 T8 Rapthor pipeline D. Rafferty
11:15   Q&A  
11:45   Science Lecture H. Vedantham
12:45   Lunch
14:00   Hands-on session IMG: PreFactor / wsclean  
15:30   Q&A
16:00   Hands-on session IMG: PreFactor / wsclean
       
SESSION (parallel chair V. Kondratiev): Beamforming
09:00 T9A
T9B
T9C
Reading BF HDF5 data with Python
- Reading BF HDF5 stokes data
- Reading BF HDF5 complex voltage data
C. Bassa
10:15   Coffee break  
10:30 D7 Plotting the Solar Spectrum P. Zucca
11:15   Q&A  
11:45   Science Lecture H. Vedantham
12:45   Lunch
14:00   Hands-on session Pulp / dynamic spectrum  
15:30   Q&A
16:00   Hands-on session Pulp / dynamic spectrum
       
 
Thursday, March 25, 2021
SESSION (parallel chair M. Iacobelli): Imaging: vlbi & polarimetry
09:00 L5 Long baseline calibration L. Morabito
10:05 L6 Radio polarization measurements with LOFAR S. O’Sullivan
10:30   Coffee breeak  
11:10 D9 Losito H. Elder
11:40 T11 Exploiting VO & LOFAR F. Jimenez-Esteban
12:30   Q&A  
12:45   Lunch  
13:40   Hands-on session: Factor / DDFacet-KillMs / Rapthor  
15:40 L7A
L7B
Apertif (instrument & science overview) E. Orru’, B. Adams, J. van Leeuwen
16:40   Hands-on session: Factor / DDFacet-KillMs / Rapthor  
       
SESSION (parallel chiar R. Fallows): Beamforming and TBB
09:00 L8 Combining the solar and heliospheric case P. Zucca
10:05 L6 Radio polarization measurements with LOFAR S. O’Sullivan
10:30   Coffee breeak  
11:10 T10A
T10B
T10C
T10D
T10E
Observing at ns time resolution with TBB
- Concluding Remarks
- Tutorial instructions
- Tutorial TBB notebooks
- Tutorial TTB notebooks solutions
S. ter Veen
11:40 T11 Exploiting VO & LOFAR F. Jimenez-Esteban
12:30   Q&A  
12:45   Lunch  
13:40   Hands-on session TBB  
15:40 L7A
L7B
Apertif (instrument & science overview) E. Orru’, B. Adams, J. van Leeuwen
16:40   Hands-on session: cont. Pulp / dynamic spectrum  
       
       
Friday, March 26, 2021
SESSION (plenary chair Y. Grange): Future perspective & conclusion
09:00   Q&A  
09:30 D10 LOFAR pipelines & CWL M. Mancini
10:30 L9 Low frequency science with LOFAR: future perspective J. Hessels
11:15   Coffee break  
11:45   Q&A session + Questionnaire  
13:00   Lunch  
14:00   Hands on session VO & LOFAR use case  
15:00   Q&A and Concluding remarks  
15:30   Program end  

 

 


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