Agenda

Below is the full agenda for the ALMA Data Reduction Workshop held November 14-16th 2018.

(Lecture notes are attached on highlighted agenda items.)

November 14^th - Day 1

• 13:30 - Introductions and outline of school
• 13:45 - Fundamentals of radio interferometry
• 14:30 - ALMA calibration overview
• 15:15 - Getting started with CASA and Hands-on: Calibration
• 15:45 - Tea/Coffee
• 16:15 - Imaging interferometric data 
• 17:00 - Continue calibration
• 17:30 - Finish

November 15^th- Day 2

• 09:00 - Day 1 recap / outline for day 2
• 09:15 - Hands-on: Continue calibration 
• 10:00 - Hands-on: Imaging continuum data
• 10:30 - Coffee/troubleshooting
• 11:00 - Hands-on: Continue imaging continuum
• 12:30 - Lunch
• 13:30 - Spectral line observational and data reduction considerations
• 14:00 - Hands-on: Spectral line data set
• 15:30 - Tea
• 16:00 - Simulating data
• 16:30 - Hands-on: continued
• 17:30 - Finish

November 16^th - Day 3

• 09:00 - Day 2 recap / outline for day 3
• 09:15 - What to expect in an ALMA data delivery (partly hands-on)
• 09:45 - Self-calibration - when and how and when to stop
• 10:30 - Coffee
• 11:00 - Hands-on: Self-calibration
• 13:00 - Lunch and close