Lecture Notes & Talks during the workshop (* under-construction)

Day 1 - Sunday 10th Oct :

Fundamentals of radio astronomy I (Roy Booth)
Fundamentals of radio astronomy II (Roy Booth)
Antennas, Receivers - Radio Astronomy (Michael Gaylard)
Correlators - Radio Astronomy (Michael Gaylard)
Array configuration(Amy Mioduszewski)
Synthesis Imaging Theory (Tony Foley)

Day 2 - Monday 11th Oct:

MeerKAT science (Roy Booth)
Calibration & Editing (Michael Bietenholz)
Advanced Calibration Techniques (Michael Bietenholz)
Deconvolution(Amy Mioduszewski)

Day 3 - Tuesday 12th Oct :

Wide Field Imaging (Michael Bietenholz)
High Dynamic Range Imaging (including wide bandwidths) (Michael Bietenholz)
Data Analysis (Tony Foley)

Day 4 - Wednesday 13th Oct:

Spectral lines (Roy Booth)
Error recognition and Image Analysis(Amy Mioduszewski)

Day 5 - Thursday 14th Oct:

HI Astronomy (Erwin de Blok )

Day 6 - Friday 15th Oct:

Multi-wavelength approach (Nadeem Oozeer)

Hands on session (please download the files from http://www.hartrao.ac.za/~nadeem/Synthesis_school/Tutorials/)

•     using aips
•     using ds9
•     using karma

Day 7 - Saturday 16th Oct:

Radio telescopes around the world (Amy Mioduszewski)

How to write a good proposal (Amy Mioduszewski)

Link to the Essential Radio Astronomy (ERA) by the NRAO.