Program

ALMA Winter School in Prague

February 28, 2012

08:30 Registration

09:00 – 09:25 ALMA and Czech ARC node (M. Karlický, Czech ARC)
09:25 – 10:15 Introduction to radio interferometry (D. Kunneriath, Czech ARC)

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00 Introduction to CASA, part I (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Presentations:
The CASA software package
A brief introduction to the Measurement Set and the ALMA Science Data Model

12:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 Introduction to Observing Tool (A. Biggs, ESO ARC)

14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 – 16:00 Molecular spectroscopy (Š. Urban, Czech ARC)
16:00 – 17:30 Observing Tool: practical exercises (A. Biggs, ESO ARC and M. Bárta, B. Dabrowski, P. Jáchym, all from Czech ARC)



February 29, 2012

09:00 – 09:30 Examples of proposals: science and submission process (P. Jáchym, Czech ARC)
09:30 – 10:00 Solar research with ALMA (M. Bárta, Czech ARC)

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00 Introduction to CASA, part II – calibration and imagining with CASA (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Presentations:
Data calibration
Basic imaging

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 CASA: practical exercises (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
Script: reduce-m100-with-problems-light.py


15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 – 16:15 CASA: continuation (D. Petry, ESO ARC)
16:15 – 16:30 Discussion and closing