ERIS 2009 Agenda

All lectures (in normal type) are in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre, as are Registration and the main tutorials, but parallel sessions will be held in the Denys Wilkinson Building. Tea, coffee and lunches will be served in the Denys Wilkinson Building.These are marked on this map.

Hands-on tutorials are in italics followed by the name of the tutor coordinating the tutorial; other tutors may also be involved.

LectureSummaries (also given individually)

Day/Time	Topic (including link to notes)	Presenter	Presentation
Mon 7 Sept
0900	Registration
0930	Welcome and organisation
0945	TheScientificPotentialOfRadioAstronomy	Willem Baan	CERISsep2009V2.pdf
1030	Coffee
1100	PracticalRadioInterferometry	Robert Laing	Laing_interf.pdf
1145	CalibrationBasics	Neal Jackson	Jackson_eris_oxford.pdf
1230	Lunch
1400	ImagingBasics	Tom Muxlow	MuxlowImaging.pdf
1445	CommonDataFormatsAndPackages	Anita Richards	DataPackagesFormats.pdf
1530	Tea
1600	SoftwareInstallationAndChecking	Ian Heywood with Dickson, Bourke, Petry, Purcell
1645	CalibrationTutorial	Neal Jackson with Muxlow, Purcell, Venturi
Tue 8 Sept
0900	SpectralLineTechniques	Rob Beswick	specline-ERIS2009-rbeswick.pdf
0945	e-MERLIN	Simon Garrington
1030	Coffee
1100	ImagingTutorial	Tom Muxlow with Fenech, Laing, Purcell
1145	ImageAnalysis	Robert Laing	Laing_image.pdf
1230	Lunch
1400	ImageMeasurementsAndAnalysis	Tiziana Venturi with Purcell, Kramer, Baan	ImageAnalysisTutorial.pdf
1445	SpectralLineTutorial	Rob Beswick with Richards, Kramer, Etoka
1530	Tea
1600	VLBIConsiderations	Tiziana Venturi	Venturi-VLBI_ERIS09.pdf
1645	VLBITutorial	Stephen Bourke with Baan, Beswick, Venturi
Wed 9 Sept
0900	IRAM and high-frequency interferometry	Bojan Nikolic	NikolicERIS2009.pdf
0945	ALMA	Robert Laing	Laing_ALMAscience.pdf
1030	Coffee
1100	LOFAR	Willem Baan	LOFAR_ERIS-review-0909V2.pdf
1145	OPTIONS:
	Continue previous work	Bourke, Baan
	Wide-band,WideFieldImaging	Danielle Fenech with Muxlow, Laing
1230	Lunch
	Free Afternoon
1930	Conference Dinner	Al Shami Lebanese Restaurant
Thu 10 Sept
0900	Polarization	Rick Perley	ERIS-Polarization.pdf
0945	PolarizationTutorial	Rick Perley with Laing, Kramer, Richards
1030	Coffee
1100	DataReductionInCASA	Martin Zwaan with Petry, Richards, Etoka	casa-intro-oxford-sept09-dpetry.pdf CASATutorialZwaan_ERIS.key.pdf
1145	OPTIONS
	Continue previous work	Petry, Heywood
	MosaicingInCASA	Martin Zwaan with Laing, Etoka	MosaicingZwaan_ERIS.pdf
1230	Lunch
1400	TransientOrVariableSources	Stewart Eyres	Eyres_ERIS.pdf
1445	OPTIONS
	Continue previous work	Kramer, Etoka
	ObservingVariableSources	Tony Rushton with Eyres and Beswick
	VLBISpectralLine	Stephen Bourke with Beswick and Baan
1530	Tea
1600	IntroductionToPipelines	Heywood/Kloeckner/Petry/Richards	ERIS_HRK_PT_AP.pdf ERIS09_AMSR_Pipelines.pdf
1645	OPTIONS:
	Continue previous work	Rushton, Beswick
	WritingAParseltonguePipeline	Hans-Rainer Kloeckner with Bourke	ERIS_HRK_PT.pdf
	MEqtrees	Ian Heywood	heywood_meqtrees_ERIS.pdf
	CASA scripting	Dirk Petry with Zwaan
Fri 11 Sept
0900	LifeCycleOfData	Hans-Rainer Kloeckner	ERIS_HRK.pdf
0945	EVLA	Rick Perley	ERIS-EVLA.pdf
1030	Coffee
1100	OPTIONS:
	Continue previous work	Kramer, Rushton
	CombiningDataFromDifferentArraysOrConfigurations	Anita Richards with Beswick and Perley	ERIS_CombiningArrays.pdf
1145	DesigningAnExperiment	Robert Laing with Heywood, Kloeckner, Etoka, Perley	Laing_proposal.pdf
1230	Lunch
1400	Report from each design group and general feedback	Ian Heywood
1445	Future of Radio Astronomy	Steve Rawlings
1530	Concluding remarks and announcements

-- AnitaRichards - 27 Mar 2009