The programme for the school is attached.
Links to the presentation streams for:
L= Lecture, D = Lecture with demos, T = Demo with tutorial material included
Time | L/D/T | Title | Given by |
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Monday, March 22, 2021 | |||
SESSION (plenary chair C. Bassa): Science opportunities & instrument capabilities; telescope/data access |
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09:00 | L1 | Welcome and start school | R. Vermeulen, M. Iacobelli |
09:15 | L2 | Low frequency introduction | J. McKean |
10:05 | L3 | LOFAR overview pt1 | M. Brentjens |
11:00 | Coffee break | ||
11:20 | L4 | LOFAR overview pt2 | M. Brentjens |
12:20 | D1 | Accessing the LOFAR telescope | E. Orru' |
12:55 | Lunch | ||
SESSION (plenary chair T. Shimwell): Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal |
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13:55 | T1 | Removal of instrumental effects: Losoto | H. Elder |
14:45 | D2 | Removal of ionospheric effects: Rmextract | M. Mevius |
15:30 | Coffee break | ||
15:45 | D3 | Raw data quality assessment | T. Franzen |
16:15 | Q&A | ||
16:30 | Hands-on session: LOSOTO | ||
17:00 | Social event LOFAR QUIZ | LOC | |
17:30 | Program end | ||
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 | |||
SESSION (plenary chair T. Franzen): Direction independent processing & wide field imaging |
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09:05 | T2 | Direction independent calibration: PreFactor | A. Drabent |
10:05 | D4 | Quality assessment of calibrated data | W. Williams |
11:05 | Coffee Break | ||
11:25 | T3 | Wide field imaging | A. Offringa |
12:30 | Q&A | ||
13:00 | Lunch | ||
SESSION (plenary chair S. ter Veen): Beamforming (and Imaging) with LOFAR: observing & processing |
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14:00 | D5 | Beamforming with LOFAR | C. Bassa |
14:45 | T4A T4B |
Processing beamformed data: Pulp - Pulp tutorial |
V. Kondratiev |
15:45 | Coffee break | ||
16:00 | D6 | Combining BF&IMG observing modes | P. Zucca |
16:45 | T5 | Beamformed dynamic spectrum and Imaging | P. Zucca |
17:15 | Q&A | ||
17:30 | Program end | ||
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | |||
SESSION (parallel chair M. Mevius): Imaging: Direction dependent Errors | |||
09:00 | T6 | Factor pipeline | M. Iacobelli |
09:45 | T7 | DDFacet KillMS pipeline | E. Bonnassieux |
10:15 | Coffee break | ||
10:30 | T8 | Rapthor pipeline | D. Rafferty |
11:15 | Q&A | ||
11:45 | Science Lecture | H. Vedantham | |
12:45 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Hands-on session IMG: PreFactor / wsclean | ||
15:30 | Q&A | ||
16:00 | Hands-on session IMG: PreFactor / wsclean | ||
SESSION (parallel chair V. Kondratiev): Beamforming | |||
09:00 | T9A T9B T9C |
Reading BF HDF5 data with Python - Reading BF HDF5 stokes data - Reading BF HDF5 complex voltage data |
C. Bassa |
10:15 | Coffee break | ||
10:30 | D7 | Plotting the Solar Spectrum | P. Zucca |
11:15 | Q&A | ||
11:45 | Science Lecture | H. Vedantham | |
12:45 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Hands-on session Pulp / dynamic spectrum | ||
15:30 | Q&A | ||
16:00 | Hands-on session Pulp / dynamic spectrum | ||
Thursday, March 25, 2021 | |||
SESSION (parallel chair M. Iacobelli): Imaging: vlbi & polarimetry | |||
09:00 | L5 | Long baseline calibration | L. Morabito |
10:05 | L6 | Radio polarization measurements with LOFAR | S. O’Sullivan |
10:30 | Coffee breeak | ||
11:10 | D9 | Losito | H. Elder |
11:40 | T11 | Exploiting VO & LOFAR | F. Jimenez-Esteban |
12:30 | Q&A | ||
12:45 | Lunch | ||
13:40 | Hands-on session: Factor / DDFacet-KillMs / Rapthor | ||
15:40 | L7A L7B |
Apertif (instrument & science overview) | E. Orru’, B. Adams, J. van Leeuwen |
16:40 | Hands-on session: Factor / DDFacet-KillMs / Rapthor | ||
SESSION (parallel chiar R. Fallows): Beamforming and TBB | |||
09:00 | L8 | Combining the solar and heliospheric case | P. Zucca |
10:05 | L6 | Radio polarization measurements with LOFAR | S. O’Sullivan |
10:30 | Coffee breeak | ||
11:10 | T10A T10B T10C T10D T10E |
Observing at ns time resolution with TBB - Concluding Remarks - Tutorial instructions - Tutorial TBB notebooks - Tutorial TTB notebooks solutions |
S. ter Veen |
11:40 | T11 | Exploiting VO & LOFAR | F. Jimenez-Esteban |
12:30 | Q&A | ||
12:45 | Lunch | ||
13:40 | Hands-on session TBB | ||
15:40 | L7A L7B |
Apertif (instrument & science overview) | E. Orru’, B. Adams, J. van Leeuwen |
16:40 | Hands-on session: cont. Pulp / dynamic spectrum | ||
Friday, March 26, 2021 | |||
SESSION (plenary chair Y. Grange): Future perspective & conclusion | |||
09:00 | Q&A | ||
09:30 | D10 | LOFAR pipelines & CWL | M. Mancini |
10:30 | L9 | Low frequency science with LOFAR: future perspective | J. Hessels |
11:15 | Coffee break | ||
11:45 | Q&A session + Questionnaire | ||
13:00 | Lunch | ||
14:00 | Hands on session VO & LOFAR use case | ||
15:00 | Q&A and Concluding remarks | ||
15:30 | Program end |
E-mail: lofarschool@astron.nl