All meals and tea/coffee (for students, tutors, and lecturers) will be served in STEC (Science and Technology Education Centre) on the ground floor of the H1 building.
Computer lab sessions will be in the Green Computer Lab, on the 2nd floor of the H1 building. Lectures will be held either in the STEC lecture theatre on the ground floor, or in the computer lab itself.
All school materials (notes, code, data, slides) are posted here (there are also some direct links below).
Tuesday 9 December (Introduction)
- 12.00 – 13.30: Arrival and lunch
- 13.30 – 14.30: Introduction to the Radio Sky – Nadeem Oozeer
- 14.30 – 18.00: Computing setup and introduction to GNU/Linux and Python – Matt Hilton
- 16.00 – 16.30: Tea/coffee break
- 18.30 – 19.30: Dinner
Wednesday 10 December (Fourier Transforms)
- 08.15 – 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.00 – 13.00: Fourier transforms I – Kavilan Moodley
- 10.30 – 11.00: Tea/coffee break
- 11.00 – 13.00: Fourier Transform Lab
- 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
- 14.00 – 18.00: Fourier transforms II – Kavilan Moodley
- 16.00 – 16.30: Tea/coffee break
- 18.30 – 19.30: Dinner
Thursday 11 December (Interferometry)
- 08.15 – 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.00 – 12.30: Visit to the radio astronomy group at the Durban University of Technology (bus leaves from outside STEC at 9am) – Talk Slides
- 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
- 14.00 – 17.30: Interferometry (+activity) – Stephen Muchovej
- 16.00 – 16.30: Tea/coffee break
- 18.00 – 21.00: School social dinner (Moyo)
Friday 12 December (Synthesis Imaging & Data Analysis)
- 08.15 – 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.00 – 13.00: Synthesis imaging – Huib Intema
- 11.00 – 11.30: Tea/coffee break
- 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
- 14.00 – 18.00: Introduction to Data Analysis with CASA – Nadeem Oozeer
- 16.00 – 16.30: Tea/coffee break
- 18.30 – 19.30: Dinner
Saturday 13 December (Advanced Analysis & Project Work)
- 08.15 – 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.00 – 13.00: Advanced Analysis (+PAPER) – James Aguirre
- 10.00 – 10.30: Tea/coffee break
- 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
- 14.00 – 18.00: Project work – coordinated by Nadeem Oozeer
- 16.00 – 16.30: Tea/coffee break
- 18.30 – 19.30: Dinner
Sunday 14 December (Project Work & Presentations)
- 08.15 – 09.00: Breakfast
- 09.00 – 11.45: Project work
- 10.30 – 11.00: Tea/coffee break
- 11.45 – 12.30: Lunch
- 12.30 – 14.00: Students present and discuss project results
- 14.00: Close of school and departure