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Towards third generation calibration in radio astronomy

MCCT SKADS/MeqTrees Workshop Nançay (Fr) - Sep. 27/Oct. 10

MCCT SKADS Mixed Workshop : http://mcct.skads-eu.org/nancay/nancay-mcct.php

SKADS Standard Set of Challenge (SSSC) : http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~ianh/SSSC/index.html

Program of Talks, Demos and Exercices

Week 1 Mon | 28/09 | Meqtree installation and building | Oleg Smirnov: attachment:MeqTrees-Installation.pdf Tue | 29/09 | Meqtree introduction | Oleg Smirnov: pdf (Exercise: E-Jones) | | The principles of RA data reduction | Anna Scaife: pdf Wed | 30/09 | The perils of the ionosphere | Oleg Smirnov: pdf (Exercise: Z-Jones and F-Jones) | | Modelling the ionosphere | Anna Scaife: pdf | | Theme splitting | E-Jones, Ionosphere and fringe fitting Thu | 01/10 | Calibration: 3C147 | ["OlegSmirnov/3C147CalibrationTutorial"] (Exercice: G-Jones and B-Jones) Fri | 02/10 | Student talk: Visualization with Pyplot | Alessio: pdf see Visualization | | What we are trying to achieve | Jan Noordam: pdf | | A network of Vanguard groups | Mario Santos: pdf Week 2 |||| Mon | 05/10 | Squint, pointing, peeling and all that jazz | Juan Uson: ppt pdf video Instructions Tue | 06/10 | What's all this "Creative Commons" about? | Duncan Hall: pdf | | LOFAR beamshapes and their use in calibration and imaging | Sarod Yatawatta Paper Wed | 07/10 | Image simulations and the UVBrick | Filipe Abdalla: ppt pdf | | Student talk: MakeAnt & fringe fitting (correct if wrong) | Stephen Bourke: Purr log? Thu | 08/10 | Student talk: VLA Beam squint simulation | Shannon & Fred: ppt pdf | | Student talk: Fitting for LBA beams | Julien & Laurent: pdf Fri | 09/10 | LOFAR Calibration | Sarod: pdf | | Student talk: PyPlot Mark 1.1 | Alessio: pdf | | Student talk: MWA Beam simulation | Stewart : Purr log (tar.gz) SSSC's link | | Closure talk | Jan: pdf <<<<<<< HEAD

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### Open Niches

* [[PyNode|PyNode]] Visualization [[Visualization]] 
* Simulating station beamshape (E-Jones) [[StationBeamShapes]] 
* Simulating the Ionosphere [[Ionosphere]] 
* Fringe Fitting: [[FringeFitting]] 

### Social Program

<ins>Monday 28 Sep.</ins>:  PURR Log awards 

<ins>Thursday 1st Oct.</ins>: Football game. 

<ins>Friday 2nd Oct.</ins>: BBQ and Visualisation script awards 

<ins>Saturday 3rd Oct.</ins>: Loire Valley castle tour to Chambord and Blois. 

<ins>Wednesday 7th Oct.</ins>: Restaurant Salbris 


### List of Participants

* [[Groupphoto.jpg]] 
From left to right (Nançay): Jan Noordam (ASTRON), Oleg Smirnov (ASTRON), Shannon Jaeger (Univ. Calgary), Steve Torchinsky (OBSPM), Filipe Abdalla (UCL), Stewart Gleadow (Univ. Melbourne), Roger Deane (Oxford - Astro), Alessio Magro (University of Malta), Richard Vella (University of Malta),  Fred Dulwich (Oxford - OerC), Stephen Bourke (fill), Julien Girard (OBSPM - LESIA) , Mario Santos (IST - CENTRA), Laurent Chemin (OBSPM - GEPI), Anna Scaife (Cambridge - MRAO), Wim Van Driel (OBSPM - GEPI). 


#### SOC

* Jan Noordam    (ASTRON, Chair) 
* Steve Rawlings (Oxford University) 
* Anna Scaife    (Cambridge University) 
* Oleg Smirnov   (ASTRON) 
* Wim van Driel  (Observatoire de Paris) 

#### LOC

* Christophe Rozière 
* Steve Torchinsky 
* Wim van Driel 

### Previous Workshop

Old workshop pages: [[MeqTreeWorkshop2007|MeqTreeWorkshop2007]] 
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