LOFAR Science School


22-26.05.2023 Sofia, Bulgaria


Venue

The LOFAR Science School will ….

Program

Preliminary Program here…

Draft program

Monday

9:00 – 9:30        Welcome and starting remarks

9:30 – 10:20        Lecture 1 – RA at low freq pt1

10:20 – 11:10     Lecture 2 – RA at low freq pt2

11:10 – 11:30     COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:20    Lecture 3 – LOFAR proposals & access

12:20 – 13:10     Tutorial(Demo) 1 – Accessing data from the LTA

13:10 – 14:10     LUNCH

14:10 – 16:00    Tutorial 2 – Removal of instrumental and ionospheric effects from the data pt1

16:00 – 16:20    COFFEE BREAK

16:20 – 17:00     Tutorial 3 – Removal of instrumental and ionospheric effects from the data pt2

17:00 – 17:30     Tutorial (Demo) 4 – Raw data quality assessment

Tuesday           

9:00 – 9:50     Lecture 4 – LOFAR pt 1

9:50 – 10:40     Lecture 5 – LOFAR pt 2

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:50        Lecture 6 – CMB

11:50 – 12:40    Lecture 7 – Extragalactic

12:40 – 13:10     Q&A

13:10 – 14:10     LUNCH

14:10 – 16:00    Tutorial 5 – Imaging – calibration, prefactor

16:00 – 16:20    COFFEE BREAK

16:20 – 17:30     T5 – Imaging – Quality assessm of calibrated data & wsclean

Wednesday

9:00 – 9:50         Lecture 8 – ISM

9:50 – 10:40         Lecture 9 – Transients (pulsars, FRBs)

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 11:50        Lecture 10 – Stars

11:50 – 12:40    Lecture 11 – Sun

12:40 – 13:10     Q&A

13:10 – 14:10     LUNCH

14:10 – 16:00    Imaging pt. 1

16:00 – 16:20    COFFEE BREAK

16:20 – 17:30     Imaging pt. 2

Thursday

9:00 – 9:50         Lecture 12 – Single station

9:50 – 10:40         Imaging pt. 3

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 13:10     Imaging pt. 3A

13:10 – 14:10     LUNCH

14:10 – 16:00    Imaging pt. 4

16:00 – 16:20    COFFEE BREAK

16:20 – 17:30     Beamformed

Friday

9:00 –  10:40     Beamformed

10:40 – 11:00     COFFEE BREAK

11:00 – 13:10     Beamformed

13:10 – 14:10     LUNCH

14:10 – 16:00    Beamformed

16:00 – 16:20    COFFEE BREAK

16:20 – 17:00     Q&A, questionnaire…

17:00 – 17:30     Concluding remarks

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