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Monday June 29

9h00 – 9h30: Registration
9h25: Welcome
9h30 – 11h00: Cornelia LangFundamentals of radio astronomy
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Cornelia Lang “AIPS overview”
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on radio interferometry (AIPS) [course materials 1 (data and software), course materials 2 (notes), course materials 3 (instructions)]
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on radio interferometry (AIPS)

18h30: Cocktail


Tuesday June 30

9h30 – 11h00: Katherine BlundellImaging, deconvolution, calibration and editing
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on radio interferometry (AIPS)
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on radio interferometry (AIPS)
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on radio interferometry (AIPS)


Wednesday July 1

9h30 – 10h30: Eduardo RosData archives and surveys
10h30 – 11h00: Coffee break
11h00 – 12h00: Anita RichardsCASA overview
12h00 – 13h30: Lunch break
13h30 – 15h15: Hands-on radio interferometry (CASA) [course materials]
15h15 – 15h45: Tea Break
15h45 – 17h30: Hands-on radio interferometry (CASA)


Thursday July 2


9h30 – 11h00: Zsolt Paragi “VLBI and and low frequency interferometry”
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on radio VLBI (Difmap) [course materials]
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on radio VLBI (Difmap)
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on radio VLBI (Difmap)


Friday July 3


9h30 – 11h00: Francesco LongoFermi/Agile and γ-ray data analysis(for the second part please refer to the hands-on page)
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: German HermannGround based γ-ray astronomy
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: François LebrunX-ray and γ-ray detection
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on Fermi data [course materials]


Monday July 6

9h30 – 11h00: Aneta Siemiginowska Statistics in X-ray data analysis” (addendum: python.pdf)
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Christian MotchData archives and surveys
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on: X-ray imaging [course materials]
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on: X-ray imaging


Tuesday July 7


9h30 – 11h00: Mike Nowak "X-Ray spectral analysis"
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on: X-ray continuum
[course materials]
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on: X-ray continuum
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on: X-ray continuum


Wednesday July 8


9h30 – 11h00: Julia Lee High resolution X-ray spectroscopy
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy
[course materials]
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on: High resolution X-ray spectroscopy


Thursday July 9


9h30 – 11h00: Sera MarkoffBroadband spectral energy distribution
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on SED fitting
[course materials]
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 14h45: Jörn WilmsHow to write a good proposal
14h45 – 15h15: Tomaso Belloni How to give a good talk
15h15 – 15h45: School evaluation
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Mark Allen Virtual Observatory” (external link to a wiki page for the session)

20h45: Banquet «Au Bistrot de la Montagne »


Friday July 10


9h30 – 11h00: Michiel van der KlisX-ray timing analysis
11h00 – 11h30: Coffee break
11h30 – 12h30: Hands-on: X-ray timing [course material]
12h30 – 14h00: Lunch break
14h00 – 15h45: Hands-on: X-ray timing
15h45 – 16h15: Tea Break
16h15 – 18h00: Hands-on: X-ray timing

Contributors to the hands-on sessions: Mark Allen, Tomaso Belloni, Thomas Bloch, Katherine Blundell, Stéphane Corbel, Matthias Kadler, Cornelia Lang, Elmar Koerding, Julia Lee, Manuel Linares, Francesco Longo, Sera Markoff, James Miller-Jones, Christian Motch, Mike Nowak, Zsolt Paragi, Anita Richards, Jérome Rodriguez, Eduardo Ros, Aneta Siemiginowska, Phil Uttley, Michiel van der Klis, Rudy Wijnands, Joern Wilms, Michael Wise