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School Program

Students will learn how (sub-)millimeter interferometers work, through a combination of lectures and hands-on demonstrations and will visit the Submillimeter Array on Maunakea, learning how the array is run and how data are collected on the SMA. Students will be involved in collecting, reducing, calibrating, and producing images from SMA data, to be presented at the conclusion of the school.

As students will be joining from around the globe, lectures will be given delivered during two sessions each day: one session beginning at 0200 UTC, and another beginning at 1400 UTC. These sessions will cover identical material during each session, and as such, students are only expected to attend one of these sessions each day. Both sessions are expected to last approximately 3 hours a piece, and will include regular breaks and discussion periods. The schedule of the lectures is given below. After each day, students will have access to the individual lecture recordings and slides, for use during the latter portion of the school (i.e., data reduction sessions).


SLIDE AND VIDEO LINKS



PROGRAM SCHEDULE — ALL DATES AND TIMES UTC

Tuesday, January 18, 2022

TimeTitle
02:00 - 02:30Opening Remarks and Welcome — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
02:30 - 03:00Introduction to Radio Astronomy — Jonathan Williams
03:00 - 03:30Fundamentals of Interferometry — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
03:30 - 04:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
04:00 - 04:30Calibration I — Mark Gurwell
04:30 - 05:00Error Recognition I — Eric Koch
05:00 - 05:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
TimeTitle
14:00 - 14:30Opening Remarks and Welcome — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
14:30 - 15:00Introduction to Radio Astronomy — Jonathan Williams
15:00 - 15:30Fundamentals of Interferometry — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
15:30 - 16:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
16:00 - 16:30Calibration I — Mark Gurwell
16:30 - 16:00Error Recognition I — Eric Koch
17:00 - 17:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD


Wednesday, January 19, 2022

TimeTitle
02:00 - 03:00Imaging and Deconvolution — David Wilner
03:00 - 03:30Imaging analysis in CASA — Feng Long
03:30 - 04:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
04:00 - 04:30Calibration II — Mark Gurwell
04:30 - 05:00Error Recognition II — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
05:00 - 05:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
TimeTitle
14:00 - 15:00Imaging and Deconvolution — David Wilner
15:00 - 15:30Imaging analysis in CASA — Feng Long
15:30 - 16:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
16:00 - 16:30Calibration II — Mark Gurwell
16:30 - 17:00Error Recognition II — Garrett 'Karto' Keating
17:00 - 17:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD


Thursday, January 20, 2022

TimeTitle
02:00 - 02:30Antennas and Optics — Ram Rao
02:30 - 03:00Basics of Signal Transmission — John Garrett
03:00 - 03:30Atmospheric Effects — Simon Radford
03:30 - 04:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
04:00 - 04:30Observational Planning I — Geoff Bower
04:30 - 05:00Observational Planning II — Shelbi Schimpf
05:00 - 05:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
TimeTitle
14:00 - 14:30Antennas and Optics — Ram Rao
14:30 - 15:00Basics of Signal Transmission — John Garrett
15:00 - 15:30Atmospheric Effects — Simon Radford
15:30 - 16:00DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
16:00 - 16:30Observational Planning I — Geoff Bower
16:30 - 17:00Observational Planning II — Shelbi Schimpf
17:00 - 17:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD


Friday, January 21, 2022

TimeTitle
02:00 - 02:30Non-Imaging Analysis — Luca Matra
02:30 - 03:00VLBI and EHT — Sara Issaoun
03:00 - 03:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
03:30 - 04:30Site Tour and Observing Demo — Ram Rao and Operators
TimeTitle
14:00 - 14:30Non-Imaging Analysis — Luca Matra
14:30 - 15:00VLBI and EHT — Sara Issaoun
15:00 - 15:30DISCUSSION/BREAK PERIOD
15:30 - 16:30Site Tour and Observing Demo — Ram Rao and Operators
16:30 - 17:30Data Reduction Training (for students not observing) — Charlie Qi


Saturday, January 22, 2022

TimeTitle
15:00 - 17:00Student Presentations