Time | Title of Session | Content | Presenter |
0900-0945 | ALMA Overview | Welcome, give users an overview of all the tools and steps they need to follow and an overview of the considerations for an interferometric ALMA observation as per the primer (Hibbard, Sheth, Johnstone or Gerald). In particular we should make sure and mention the following important user tools: Website(s), Primer, Mousepad, HelpDesk, OT, CASA / SIMDATA, Splatalogue. | Gerald |
0945-1015 | OT Demo/Splatalogue | On-screen walk through of a simple example from the Science Primer case for the users. Users will already have downloaded the OT and the science primer examples will be available as aot files for the user to walk through. (Sheth) - Take users through all the basic steps of using the OT - Set PI, CO-Is - Abstract, putting in sci-just, tech just - Target list / source entry - Setting up correlator, choosing a line, setting the LO etc. (this will be important for us to simulate and practice ahead of time) This will be lightning fast for some users so only some may be able to really grasp everything but that is ok. After this we give them the chance to do this for their own proposal ideas. We need to tell them to come prepared for simulating how they might propose for ALMA time BEFORE they come to the tutorial. Preferably having thought through the science and technical cases after reading the primer. |
James & Tony |
1015-1030 | Hands-on OT time | Start playing with the OT on your own (NAASC Staff walks around to help). | |
1030-1100 | Coffee | ||
1100-1200 | Hands on OT time | More hands on OT - NAASC staff walk around and help individual users with their own proposal set ups (NAASC Staff walks around to help). | |
1200-1315 | LUNCH | LUNCH | |
1315-1345 | What is CASA? | Overview of CASA - what is CASA, organization, syntax / python, finding help. What CASA will allow them to do. Give them the basic functionality associated with CASA that there is a lot of power in CASA and they will have to read through the CASAGUIDES in more detail as they work through examples. Segue into the SIMDATA talk. | Rachel |
1345-1430 | Coffee Break | ||
1430-1500 | SIMData Demo | SIMData overview. How it works. Show them a couple of basic examples - i.e. take a fits file, make sure headers are reasonable for CASA to read them, put in a configuration and simulate | Scott |
1500-1700 | SIMData hands-on | Users use their own favorite object and try and simulate it. They may fail in some cases in which case we should use canned examples of what they can do. | |
I | Attachment | Action | Size | Date | Who | Comment |
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CASA_TutorialJan2011.pdf | manage | 4 MB | 2011-01-23 - 19:33 | KartikSheth | Rachel's talk | |
Resources_TutorialJan2011.pdf | manage | 3 MB | 2011-01-23 - 19:17 | KartikSheth | Gerald's PDF | |
Simdata_TutorialJan2011.pdf | manage | 3 MB | 2011-01-23 - 19:26 | KartikSheth | Scott's Talk |