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KartikSheth - 2011-03-28
The ALMA Early Science Workshop begins tomorrow in the Manoa auditorium
Open to all: please drop in for any part but if you are planning to try the hands-on demos, bring your laptop with appropriate software installed (instructions below)
--- THURSDAY ---
10:00 - 11:00 Radio interferometry for the masses (Williams)
11:00 - 11:45 Basic interferometry observing (Petipas [SMA])
12:00 - 12:30 Introduction to ALMA (Sheth [NRAO])
1:30 - 4:00 The ALMA Proposal Tool (Sheth)
- hands-on demos
- attendees encouraged to "submit" test proposals
--- FRIDAY ---
9:00 - 11:00 The ALMA simulator (Sheth)
- hands-on demos
11:00 - 12:00 Review of test submissions (Sheth)
1:00 - 3:00 Science talks (exact order TBD)
- Williams - circumstellar disks
- Sanders - COSMOS
- Cowie - SMGs
- Pandian - massive star formation
- Casey - SMGs
- Shinnaga - IRC+10216
*** If you wish to participate in the hands-on demos, you will need to
*** install the Observing Tool, CASA data reduction package, and a
*** test dataset first. Full instructions are at
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http://science.nrao.edu/alma/community-material.shtml