The Fourth

NAIC-NRAO

School on Single-Dish Radio Astronomy

July 8-15, 2007, Green Bank, West Virginia


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2007 NAIC/NRAO Single Dish Summer School Program
Sunday 8th July
12:00 - 17:00 Registration
17:00 - 18:30 Dinner
18:30 - 19:00 Introduction to the 40' Telescope
19:00 - 21:00 Welcome Drinks and Snacks
19:00 - 01:00 40' Observing
Monday 9th July
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast and Late Registration
08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Practical Information Richard Prestage
09:00 - 09:30 Basic Introduction to the Radio Sky Toney Minter
09:30 - 10:00 Introduction to Radio Telescopes Frank Ghigo
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Radio Astronomy Fundamentals Jim Condon
11:30 - 12:30 Basic Principles of Single Dish Telescopes Paul Goldsmith
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Tracing the Signal Down the Telescope Ron Maddelena
14:45 - 15:45 Theory of Measurements Mike Davis
15:45 - 16:15 Break
16:15 - 17:15 Why Single Dishes? Chris Salter
17:15 - 19:00 Dinner
19:00 - ? Hands-On Project Observing
Tuesday 10th July
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30 Spectral Lines Larry Morgan
09:30 - 10:15 Continuum Brian Mason
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 11:45 Pulsars Unconfirmed
11:45 - 12:30 Polarization Carl Heiles
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Tours of the Laboratory and Telescope
17:30 - 19:00 Dinner
19:00 - ? Hands-On Project Observing
Wednesday 11th July
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 09:30 Spectral Line Calibration Karen O'Neil
09:30 - 10:30 Short Spacings Snezana Stanimirovic
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:45 Other Things to Do with Single Dish Radio Telescopes in the cm Regime.
  • Radar
  • VLBI
  • The Transient Sky, RRATS, GRB's etc
  • Greg Black
  • Tapasi Ghosh
  • Unconfirmed
11:45 - 12:30 Survey Techniques, Hardware and Concerns Steven Gibson
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 The Millimeter Regime Crystal Brogan
14:45 - 15:30 RFI Overview Carla Beaudet
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 RFI Hands-On demo Wes Sizemore
17:30 - 19:00 Dinner
19:00 - ? Hands-On Project Observing
Thursday 12th July
07:00 - 08:30 Breakfast
08:30 - 12:00 Hands-On Project Data Reduction and Analysis
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 17:30 Hands-On Project Data Reduction and Analysis
13:30 - 14:30 Optional/Advanced Talk - 'Least-Squares Frequency-Switching' Carl Heiles
Friday 13th July
07:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 - 12:30 Miniworkshops:Alternate Data Analysis Workshops
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45 Research in Space and Atmospheric Physics Bob Kerr
14:45 - 15:30 Current and Future Capabilities of the GBT/Green bank RPrestage
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 Hands-On Presentations
18:00 - 21:00 Banquet with Invited Speaker ("History of Green Bank") and Music Frank Ghigo
Saturday 14th July
TBA Recreational Activities - TBA