| Sunday June 10 | ||
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| 1:00 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe to the Observatory | |
| 4:00 -- 5:00 | Registration at the Visitor Center | |
| 5:00 -- 5:40 | History of the Arecibo Observatory | D. Altschuler |
| 5:40 -- 6:30 | Reception at the Visitor Center | |
| 7:00 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |
| Monday June 11: Fundamentals | Moderator: C. Salter | |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe | |
| 8:00 -- 9:00 | Late Registration at the Visitor Center | |
| 9:00 -- 9:15 | Welcome and School Organization | D. Altschuler |
| 9:15 -- 10:20 | Basic Principles of Single-Dish Radio Telescopes | P. Goldsmith |
| 10:30 -- 10:50 | Coffee Break (Group photo) | |
| 10:50 -- 11:40 | Theory of Measurements with Fully-Filled Apertures | D. Campbell |
| 11:50 -- 12:30 | Why Single-Dishes? | D. Emerson |
| 12:30 -- 2:00 | Lunch Break | Moderator: M. Lewis |
| 2:00 -- 2:25 | The Receiver System -- cm regime | R. Norrod |
| 2:30 -- 2:55 | The Receiver System -- mm regime | J. Payne |
| 3:00 -- 3:25 | Backends | R. Fisher |
| 3:30 -- 3:55 | Noise Statistics and Spectral Analysis | J. Hagen |
| 4:00 -- 4:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:20 -- 5:10 | Stray Radiation and How to Deal with it | J. Lockman |
| 5:20 -- 7:00 | Dinner Break | |
| 7:00 -- 9:00 | Demos of Observing Fundamentals | |
| 9:15 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |
| Tuesday June 12: Single-Dish Observing Disciplines and Associated Techniques | Moderator: R. Maddalena | |
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| 7:30 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe | |
| 9:00 -- 9:40 | Continuum 1: General Aspects | J. Condon |
| 9:50 -- 10:30 | Continuum 2: Specific Applications | C. Salter |
| 10:30 -- 10:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:50 -- 11:30 | Spectral-Line 1: General Aspects | H. Liszt |
| 11:40 -- 12:20 | Advanced Spectral Line Topics | J. Dickey |
| 12:30 -- 2:00 | Lunch Break + Mercury Observation Demo | Moderator: H. Liszt |
| 2:00 -- 2:40 | Pulsar Observations: Propagation Effects, Searching, Distance Estimates, Scintillations and VLBI | J. Cordes |
| 2:50 -- 3:30 | Pulsar Observations: Coherent Dedispersion, Polarization, and Timing | I. Stairs |
| 3:30 -- 3:50 | Coffee Break | |
| 4:00 -- 5:00 | Planetary Radar | G. Black |
| 5:10 -- 5:50 | Fundamentals of Polarization Measurement | C. Heiles |
| 6:00 -- 7:00 | Dinner Break | |
| 7:00 -- 7:00am (Weds) | Hands-on projects (click here for schedule) | |
| 9:15 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |
| 00:15 (Weds) | The last van departs to El Buen Cafe | |
| Wednesday June 13: Calibration and Data Reduction | Moderator: P. Jewell | |
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| 7:30 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe | |
| 8:00 -- 12:00 | Beach + Mercury Observation Demos | |
| 1:00 -- 1:40 | Calibration Techniques at Radio Wavelengths | K. O'Neil |
| 1:50 -- 2:30 | Calibration Techniques at Millimeter Wavelengths | P. Jewell |
| 2:40 -- 3:20 | Reduction and Analysis Techniques | R. Maddalena |
| 3:30 -- 3:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 3:40 -- 4:20 | AIPS++ 'Dish' Tutorial | J. McMullin |
| 4:30 -- 4:45 | Organization of Hands-On "Mini Research Projects" | |
| 4:45 -- 5:30 | What Can Go Wrong? | Panel Discussion |
| 5:30 -- 7:00 | Dinner Break | |
| 9:00 -- 7:00am (Thurs) | Hands-on projects (click here for schedule) | |
| 9:30 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |
| 01:15 (Thurs) | The last van departs to El Buen Cafe | |
| Thursday June 14: Special Topics I | Moderator: J. Dickey | |
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| 7:30 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe | |
| 9:00 -- 9:40 | The Effects of the Atmosphere and Ionosphere | L. Olmi |
| 9:50 -- 10:10 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:10 -- 10:50 | RFI and How to Deal with it (Both in Hardware & Software) | R. Fisher |
| 11:00 -- 11:15 | Spectrum Management | T. Ghosh |
| 11:20 -- 12:00 | Short-Spacings Correction from the Single-Dish Point of View | S. Stanimirovic |
| 12:00 -- 2:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 2:00 -- 5:00 | Hands-On Projects | |
| 5:00 -- 6:00 | Invited Talk by Prof. Juan Giusti (Univ. of PR, Rio Piedras): A Small Planet -- Puerto Rico | |
| 7:00 -- | School Banquet | |
| 10:00 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |
| Friday June 15: Special Topics II | Moderator: D. Emerson | |
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| 9:00 | Vans depart from El Buen Cafe | |
| 10:30 -- 11:10 | Focal Plane Arrays | J. Payne |
| 11:20 -- 12:00 | Bolometers for Millimetre-Wave Astronomy | W. Holland & W. Duncan |
| 12:00 -- 1:00 | The GBT, the Arecibo Telescope and Other Single-Dish telescopes | P. Jewell, D. Campbell, P. Goldsmith |
| 1:00 -- 2:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 2:00 -- 3:30 | Hands-On Projects | |
| 3:30 -- 4:30 | Panel Discussion: Future of Single-Dish Radio Telescopes | |
| 4:30 -- 6:00 | Presentations of Hands-On Projects | |
| 6:00 -- 7:00 | Cocktail | |
| 7:00 | Vans depart to El Buen Cafe | |