Sixth IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School - First Announcement

IRAM will organize this year its sixth millimeter-interferometry school. These schools are organized every two years since 1998. The school will take place at the IRAM headquarters (Grenoble, France) on October 6-10th, 2008. It is intended for PhD students, post-docs and scientists who want to acquire a good knowledge of interferometry and data reduction techniques at millimeter wavelengths. The programme includes lectures on:

• fundamentals of millimeter interferometry
• atmopheric phase correction
• data calibration and imaging techniques
• the IRAM Plateau de Bure interferometer (PdBI)
• the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA)

Tutorials will also be organized to help participants to become familiar with the reduction of PdBI data.

This event is supported by RadioNet and is part of the activities of the ALMA Regional Center (ARC) node hosted by IRAM. Registration is free of charge but the school can accept only up to 60 participants. A limited budget will be available for travel support. The school web page -including the registation form- is available at:

http://www.iram.fr/IRAMFR/IS/school.htm

Please contact IRAM scientific secretary (Cathy Berjaud and Fabienne Schicke, berjaud$@$iram.fr) for any inquiries.

Frédéric GUETH