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GBT Training Workshop |
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2016 October 24-28
Program
Background presentations in the morning, group work in the afternoon,
and GBT Observing in the evening.
- Monday, October 24
- Tuesday, October 25
- GBT Tour (Ryan Lynch and Ron Maddalena)
- Shop Tour (Mike Hedrick)
- Lab Tour (David Frayer)
- GBTIDL Data Reduction and GBT Pipeline (David Frayer)
- Pulsar Presto Reduction (Ryan Lynch)
- Group Breakout Sessions
- GBT Observing
- Wednesday, October 26
- Cleo (Ron Maddalena)
- GBT Sensitivity Calculator and Mapping Calculator (Ron Maddalena)
- The DSS (Toney Minter)
- Group Breakout Sessions
- GBT Observing
- Thursday, October 27
- The PST (Jennifer Weston)
- Remote Observing (Nichol Cunningham)
- Hands-on exercises in Library (Nichol, Jennifer, and David)
- Group Breakout Sessions
- GBT Observing
- Friday, October 28
- Group presentations
- Awarding GBT Training Certificates
- Group picture
- Observing Groups
- Group 1: Ryan Lynch, Pranav Sanghavi, Paul Baker
- Group 2: Jennifer Weston, Frank Ghigo, Lauranne Lanz, Tony
Marston, Brenda Namumba
- Group 3: Nichol Cunningham, Dan Perera, Davide Elia, Eugenio
Schisano, Stefano Pezzuto, Charlie Figura
- Group 4: David Frayer, Ron Maddalena, Klaus Dollopf, Andrew McNichols
Observing Related Documentation and Links
- Observer Information
- Tools
- Data Reduction
- Schedules and GBT Log
- Help Desks
Feedback
- Request for a presentation on Observing (with Astrid/GFM/Cleo)
showing common pitfals and how to deal with them
- Have a wiki page for common problems and solutions
- Update remote observing instructions for the Mac
- Update gbtidl contributed software to include commonly used
procedures
- Update users manual to include KFPA "broadband=1" mode