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+====== GLOW Basic Interferometry 2008 Overview======
+===== Date and Time =====
+November 17--19
+We will start modestly early in the morning on November 17, at 9:00.  So you will probably need to travel to Garching on the weekend.
+===== Location =====
+MPA Garching, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, 85748 Garching\\
+Seminar room 006 (basement)
+Way from the underground station "Garching Forschungszentrum" to the institute's main entrance.
+{{:public:meetings:mpa_garching.png|}}
+[[http://maps.google.de/maps?f=d&saddr=Boltzmannstra%C3%9Fe&daddr=Karl-Schwarzschild-Stra%C3%9Fe&hl=de&geocode=FUJz4AIdWxWyAA%3BFQZn4AIdphWyAA&mra=ls&sll=48.261534,11.670399&sspn=0.004543,0.004721&ie=UTF8&ll=48.262313,11.670452&spn=0.009085,0.009441&t=h&z=16| Link to Google Maps]]
+===== Hotels =====
+Once you know your arrival and departure date, you can contact Maria Depner
+(maria@mpa-garching.mpg.de, Tel.: +49 89 30000-2214) and she'll book rooms
+in one of the following hotels.
+The first two are located in Garching. Reaching the Institute is possible by
+foot (ca. 20mins), or by using the underground (1 Stop). The third hotel is
+in a business park, outside Garching, but beside the next U6 underground
+stop; the Forschungsgelände Garching is only two stops away.
+[[http://www.hoyackerhof.de/e-index.htm|Hotel Hoyacker Hof]], Freisinger Landstraße 9a, 85748 Garching
+rooms from EUR77 per night
+[[http://www.hkl.de/index_e.html|Hotel König Ludwig II.]], Bürgerplatz 3, 85748 Garching
+rooms from EUR89 per night
+[[http://www.etaphotel.com/gb/hotel-3089-etap-hotel-etap-hotel-muenchen-nord-garchin/index.shtml|Etap Hotel]], Daimlerstrasse 3, 85748 Garching (Garching-Hochbrück)
+rooms from EUR49 per night
+===== Participants =====
+^ Name ^ Type ^ Arrival Date ^ Departure Date ^ Hotel ^ Looking for roommate ^
+|James M Anderson| (T)|Nov 16 17:30|Nov 19 20:00|Hotel Hoyacker|N|
+|Sven Duscha| (S)       |Nov 16|Nov 19|N|N|
+|Frank Breitling| (S)	|Nov 16|Nov 19|?|N|
+|Jochen Eislöffel| (S)	|?|?|?|?|
+|Joerg Knoche| (S)	|n/a|n/a|N|N|
+|Thomas Riller| (S)	|?|?|?|?|
+|Christian Vocks| (S)	|Nov 16|Nov 19|?|N|
+|Matthias Hoeft| (S)	|Nov 16 22:00|Nov 19 15:00|Park Hotel|N|
+|Petr Kuchar| (S)       |?|?|?|?|
+|Hristo Stoev| (S)	|Nov 16|Nov 19|?|?|
+|Enno Middelberg| (T)	|Nov 16|Nov 19|?|?|
+|Emanuela Orru| (B)     |Nov 19|Nov 19|N|N|
+|Artie Hatzes | (S)     |Nov 16|Nov 19|N|N|
+===== Lectures =====
+Lectures will be derived from the NRAO Synthesis Imaging in Radio Astronomy series.  See http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/synthesis/2008/lectures08.html
+In the table below, you can find the titles of lectures from the 2008 summer school.  If you think you would like to teach a section, please fill in your initials.  If more than one person wants to teach something, we can negotiate later, so don't be afraid to put yourself down for something which already has a name.  The initial priority level was assigned by JMA, but feel free to put an X in the request column if you think it is important for you.
+^Title^Lecturer^ Priority ^Requests ^Day^
+|Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry 		 | JMA | High | | Mo |
+|Antennas & Receivers in Radio Astronomy 	 | EM  | High| | Mo |
+|Cross Correlators & New Correlators 		 | JMA| High, but skip many parts| | Mo |
+|Polarization in Interferometry 		 | SD | High| | We|
+|Calibration and Editing 			 | JMA | High | | Mo |
+|Imaging and Deconvolution 			 | EM or TE?| High| | Mo |
+|Sensitivity & Noise 				 | | Low| | |
+|Advanced Calibration Techniques 		 | JMA| Medium| | Tu |
+|Spectral Line Observing 			 | | Low| | |
+|Error Recognition & Image Analysis 		 | | Low| | |
+|Galactic radio science 			 | | Very Low| |  |
+|EVLA 						 | | Very Low| |  |
+|Very Long Baseline Interferometry 		 | EM | High| | Tu |
+|Astrometry 					 | | Low| |  |
+|VLBA Upgrade 					 | | Very Low| |  |
+|Wide Field Imaging I: Non-coplanar arrays 	 | JMA | High| | Tu |
+|Wide Field Imaging II: Mosaicing 		 | ??? | Medium| | We|
+|New Instruments 				 | | Low| |  |
+|Millimeter Interferometry & ALMA 		 | | Very Low| |  |
+|{{:public:meetings:lowfreqinterf_orru.pdf|Low Frequency Interferometry}} 			 |EO| High| | We |
+|High Dynamic Range Imaging 			 | EM | Medium| | We |
+|Proposal Writing				 | | Very Low| |  |
+|Interferometry of Solar System Objects 	 | | Low| |  |
+|Non-Imaging Data Analysis 			 | TE | Medium| | Tu|
+|Array Design & Simulations 			 | | Low| |  |
+|Extragalactic Science 				 | | Very Low| |  |
+====== Schedule ======
+^Day^Time^Activity^
+|**Monday**| | |
+| |  9:00 | Welcome and Introduction |
+| |  9:15 | Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry |
+| | 10:15 | Coffee Break |
+| | 10:30 | Antennas & Receivers in Radio Astronomy |
+| | 11:30 | Cross Correlators & New Correlators |
+| | 12:00 | Morning Review Session |
+| | 12:30 | Lunch |
+| | 13:00 | Calibration and Editing |
+| | 14:00 | Imaging and Deconvolution |
+| | 15:00 | Coffee Break |
+| | 15:15 | [[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_monday|Tutorial Session 1]] |
+| | 18:00 | End of Day 1 |
+| | 19:00 | Meet up for Dinner |
+| **Tuesday** | | |
+| |  9:00 | Non-Imaging Data Analysis |
+| | 10:00 | Coffee Break |
+| | 10:15 | Advanced Calibration Techniques |
+| | 11:15 | Very Long Baseline Interferometry |
+| | 12:15 | Morning Review Session |
+| | 12:30 | Lunch |
+| | 13:30 | [[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_tuesday|Tutorial Session 2]] |
+| | 15:45 | Coffee Break |
+| | 16:00 | Resume tutorial session |
+| | 17:00 | Wide Field Imaging I: Non-coplanar arrays |
+| | 18:00 | End of Day 2 |
+| | 19:00 | Meet up for Dinner |
+| **Wednesday** | | |
+| |  9:00 | Polarization in Interferometry |
+| | 10:00 | Coffee Break |
+| | 10:15 | [[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_wednesday|Tutorial Session 3]] |
+| | 12:00 | Lunch |
+| | 13:00 | Low Frequency Interferometry |
+| | 14:00 | End of Day 3 as people make their way back home |
+====== E-mail Announcement Log ======
+===== 2008 Oct 06 =====
+Hello everyone,
+I have a few things I would like to update everyone on.
+First, I will be sending out an announcement on a GLOW basic radio-
+interferometry school soon through Matthias.
+Second, I have some good news to report.  In the e-mail from Michael
+Wise below, you will see that the Dutch LOFAR group has come around to
+giving a higher priority to teaching the rest of us how to use the
+LOFAR software so that we can aid in the development and
+commissioning.  Hooray!  The proposed timeframe for such a school is
+January.  Looking at the list of suggested topics, I believe that this
+school will be a fairly high level school.  Thus, I think that the
+idea of having a ~few day school in Garching to cover the really
+fundamental basics of radio interferometry for our new people is still
+a good idea.
+Third, through a series of e-mail exchanges and a long telephone
+conversation last week, I believe that there has been a significant
+shift in the software mindset in LOFAR.  It seems that the MeqTrees
+package, which for so long has been officially downcast by the LOFAR
+management has now been blessed with some sort of official
+recognition.  This is in part, I believe, a result of some work within
+Dwingeloo to have a software program to automatically convert MeqTrees
+software into something which can be run through BBS.  This means that
+the LOFAR management is now officially recognizing that software
+development and commissioning using MeqTrees can be useful for
+LOFAR.  For us, this means that we can officially start using MeqTrees
+to do LOFAR-related work, as MeqTrees is available now, and we do not
+have to wait some unknown period of time for BBS to appear in a usable
+state.  I will try to keep everyone informed as this gets sorted out.
+More later.
+James M Anderson
+===== 2008 Oct 06, number 2 =====
+Hello everyone,
+As announced earlier, we are planning a school to teach basic radio
+interferometry, with an emphasis on practical knowledge necessary for
+working with LOFAR, in Garching at some point around one month from
+now.  In the previous polling, 12 potential students responded with
+interest, and we are now moving forward with planning the actual
+school.  Details and a sign-up area are provided below.  Note that we
+need to have people capable of teaching sign up in addition to the
+students.  Please cast your date votes by the morning of Monday,
+October 13.
+Since the initial announcement of our basic interferometry school,
+Dwingeloo has announced that they are in the planning stages to hold a
+LOFAR-specific school sometime in perhaps January.
+> Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:04:05 +0200
+> From: Michael Wise <wise@astron.nl>
+> Subject: LOFAR data processing school
+>
+> Dear All,
+>
+> At the last meeting of the LAD board, James raised the idea on behalf
+> of the GLOW community of holding a LOFAR data processing school
+> to help train the growing pool of new students, postdocs, and staff that
+> will be aiding in the commissioning activities  early next year. This topic
+> was also raised again at the Hamburg meeting. I think there is no question
+> that such a workshop will be needed, so I'd like to begin the logistical
+> planning now so we can organize it as soon as possible.
+>
+> Assuming everyone agrees about the need for such a workshop,
+> as a first step, I'd like to ask each of you to take a moment and answer
+> the following few questions:
+>
+> a) How many people from your group(s) would be likely to attend?
+> b) What are their skill levels likely to be? (student, postdoc, experienced
+>      radio astronomer?)
+> c) What topics would you like to see addressed? (system overview,
+>      data preparation, calibration, imaging, time series data,
+>      single station modes, etc.?)
+Given the enormous range of things to cover for LOFAR processing, I
+doubt that the school being proposed for around January will be able
+to cover both the basics of radio interferometry, as well as details
+about what is going on inside the available LOFAR software and how to
+use the current LOFAR software.
+Therefore, I feel that a school to introduce GLOW members to basic
+radio interferometry is still a good idea, prior to the subsequent
+school to be held in January which will go into far more detail.
+However, I realize that some of you who are already modestly familiar
+with radio interferometry may wish to skip the GLOW school and only
+attend the January school.
+Therefore, I have created a doodle page for people to sign up for the
+GLOW school.
+http://www.doodle.ch/us7vrswy62ssaqw6
+The possible dates for the school are given on the doodle page
+(October 27 to November 21).  We will aim for a 3 (or 2) day school
+with the greatest attendance possible.  Please note that we also need
+a few people who can give lectures (the NRAO summer school lectures
+are available on-line) and run a tutorial session.  So if you can come
+to Garching for a day or two and help out with teaching interferometry
+to other people, please sign up as well.  I can talk for a while, but
+my voice will probably give out after the first day if it is only me
+doing the talking.  (Students, please mark yourselves with an S after
+your name.  Teachers, please mark yourself with a T, and people
+in-between can use B.)
+The main plan is to take selected lectures from
+http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/synthesis/2008/
+and present them to the students during morning sessions.  Emphasis
+will be given by the presenters on material which is most relevant for
+LOFAR, and for cases where LOFAR is different from existing
+instruments.  We will probably have 10--15 people, so this will be a
+very informal group, and you can ask questions freely.  Then in the
+afternoons we will have data processing tutorials to give the students
+an idea of what really goes on in practice.  For the ease of the
+teachers, the tutorials will probably use AIPS with relatively simple
+datasets from existing instruments, to teach the students the basics
+of what goes on in radio interferometry.
+A room will be organized for us in Garching.  Accommodation information
+will be made available when we have selected the final dates for the
+school.
+Suggested reading material to have available at your institution:
+http://www.amazon.de/Synthesis-Imaging-Radio-Astronomy-Astronomical/dp/1583810056/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1223306412&sr=8-2
+This is the book used by the past decade of summer schools in
+Socorro.  It is aimed mostly at the astronomer wanting to reduce VLA
+data, with a few diversions into other instruments and frequencies.
+Unfortunately, they are no longer easy to get ahold of.  Try asking
+for volume 180 from http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/cs/csorder.html
+http://www.amazon.de/Interferometry-Synthesis-Radio-Astronomy/dp/0471254924/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1223306706&sr=1-2
+This is the main radio interferometry book aimed more at the
+engineering astronomer side of things.  I have found it quite useful
+for low-level thinking about the hardware and software development,
+but it is not terribly useful if you just want to process your data.
+http://www.amazon.de/Fourier-Transform-and-Its-Applications/dp/0071160434/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1223306882&sr=1-3
+Fourier transforms play a major role in radio interferometry, in the
+basic way that the interferometer "sees" the sky.  One must become
+comfortable with the transform in order to understand the instrument.
+I look forward to seeing many of you in Garching.
+James M Anderson
+===== 2008 Oct 13 =====
+On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, James M Anderson wrote:
+> The possible dates for the school are given on the doodle page
+> (October 27 to November 21).  We will aim for a 3 (or 2) day school
+> with the greatest attendance possible.
+And the winner is ... November 17--19.
+It looks like we will have 8 to 9 students.  I will try to make
+arrangements with Garching in the next few days, and we will give you
+more details as we figure them out.
+>  Please note that we also need
+> a few people who can give lectures (the NRAO summer school lectures
+> are available on-line) and run a tutorial session.
+Only 2 people signed up as possible teachers.  In order for this to
+work, we need to have a few more people show up to give the lectures
+and help through a tutorial session.  Sven, can you twist the arms of
+some of the people in Garching?  They would not need to travel far.
+Back with more info soon.
+James M Anderson
+===== 2008 Nov 03  AIPS Installation =====
+Hello everyone,
+As part of the school in Garching, we intend to have a few short data
+tutorial sessions.  The purpose of these sessions is to help the
+students understand the fundamentals of radio interferometry --- not
+to teach the students how to reduce radio interferometry data.
+The software LOFAR will use for processing data is not really in a
+state which novice users can be expected to deal with in a few days'
+introduction.  Therefore, for the convenience of the instructors who
+have agreed to help with the teaching, the tutorial sessions will use
+the AIPS software package, since the majority of the instructors are
+comfortable trying to do tutorial sessions in AIPS.  ASTRON will host
+a school on using LOFAR-specific software early next year.
+So, we ask that everyone attending the school in Garching comes
+prepared with his/her own laptop having a (recent) version of AIPS
+installed and running.  Instructions for doing this are found below.
+On behalf of the organizing group, I look forward to seeing everyone
+in two weeks.
+James M Anderson
+==== Installing AIPS on a laptop computer.  ====
+Nov 14:  updated for 31DEC10 AIPS.
+You will need either a computer running Linux or a Mac laptop.  You
+will probably need about 1.5 GB of free space, including some space for
+the tutorial datasets to be reduced in Garching.
+I have installed a new version of AIPS as myself (not the root
+account) on my laptop this evening.  It took about 45 minutes, most of
+which I was doing other things while the software was downloading from
+the US.  I strongly recommend installing the pre-compiled binary
+version, as it will be far easier to deal with.
+So, to install AIPS, go to
+http://www.aips.nrao.edu/
+You want to install the current version, which is called 31DEC10, and
+can be found at
+http://www.aips.nrao.edu/dec10.shtml
+You should open another tab/window in your web browser to see the
+install instructions at
+http://www.aips.nrao.edu/install.shtml
+I will follow the instructions for Linux computers.  If you have a
+Mac, you will have to read the Mac-specific instructions.
+Ok, create a directory on your laptop where you want to install AIPS.
+It would be easiest if this is also the directory where you will be
+able to put large datasets.  Then, cd into that directory.  For me, I
+made a directory in my home area called AIPS.
+Now download the Perl installation script from
+ftp://ftp.aoc.nrao.edu/pub/software/aips/31DEC10/install.pl
+and put it in the AIPS directory you just made.  Make sure it is
+executable by running
+''chmod u+x install.pl''
+Next, run the installation script.  Make sure you use the -n option to
+specify installing the binary version.
+''perl ./install.pl -n''
+Follow the instructions on-screen and in the installation web area.
+Some specific notes are:
+a.
+  Since you are using a laptop, you really probably want to force
+  the installation to use the name LOCALHOST.
+.
+  If you will use a data area in the same location as your program
+  installation, you can just accept the suggested data area at the
+  bottom of the screen.
+.
+  AIPS is really designed to print out lots of things, and really
+  wants to have a printer installed.  You don't actually have to
+  have a printer, but you should try to set up something.  Try the
+  (D)iscover option.  Otherwise, just ask for a (N)ew printer, and
+  give it a name of lpr, no options, and say A4 paper.
+.
+  Just (A)ccept no tape drives, unless you actually have a tape
+  drive on your laptop.
+B.
+  you probably want to accept only 127.0.0.1 for LOCALHOST to
+  access your computer.
+.
+  (This section is skipped for the binary installation.)
+When you are finally ready, hit //Enter// to continue.  It will take many
+minutes to download everything.
+It will then ask about running a "Midnight Job".  This is a shell
+script, which you can put into a cron job, to automatically download
+updated software.  It is perfectly fine to accept this, as it will
+only run manually, unless you manually put it into a cron job.  When
+asked for a password, as the instructions on-screen tell you, just hit
+//Enter//.
+You will need to have your system running in either 24 bit or 8 bit
+color mode.  You can run ''xdpyinfo'' if you are not sure which bit mode
+you are using.  You are on your own to change the color bit depth of
+your laptop.
+Follow the instructions for starting up AIPS to test the installation.
+Once you have done that, you can try running just    aips    with no
+options to see if it can run the tv terminal.  AIPS will ask you for a
+user number.  Just pick a favorite number between say 2 and 30000.
+Since you do not have to share your laptop with other people, you are
+free to pick any user number you wish.  (And many of us use different
+numbers to keep different projects we are working on separated within
+AIPS.)
+Type   ''exit''   to stop running AIPS.
+Those of you who are eager to get started can read the cookbook at
+http://www.aips.nrao.edu/cook.html
+====== Tutorial Sessions ======
+===== Monday, 2008 Nov 17 =====
+[[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_monday|Monday's Tutorial]]
+===== Tuesday, 2008 Nov 18 =====
+[[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_Tuesday|Tuesday's Tutorial]]
+===== Wednesday, 2008 Nov 19 =====
+[[public:meetings:GLOWBI2008:tutorial_wednesday|Wednesday's Tutorial]]