School Programme
version 3.1 29.09.2006


Sunday, Oct. 1st



18:00
Welcome reception at the Splendid Hotel


Monday, Oct. 2



09:00
Welcome address (P. Cox)


Session 1
Aperture Synthesis at mm Wavelengths


09:15
Introduction to mm astronomy (M.Guelin)
10:15
Coffee break
10:45
mm antennas and their calibration (P. Hily-Blant)
11:45
Lunch break


13:45
Interferometry and aperture synthesis (J. Pety)
14:45
Coffee break
15:15
The mm-wave interferometer (R. Lucas)
16:45
Short break
17:00
The atmosphere at mm wavelengths (J.-M. Winters)
18:00
Session closing


Tuesday, Oct. 3



Session 2
Data Calibration


09:00
The Plateau de Bure interferometer (R. Neri)
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Atmospheric phase correction (A.Karastergiou)
12:00
Lunch break


14:00
Data calibration principles (R. Lucas)
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
PdBI data calibration in practice (F. Gueth)
17:30
Session closing


Wednesday, Oct. 4  



Session 3 Imaging & Data Analysis


09:00
Standard imaging & deconvolution - part I (J. Pety)
10:00
Coffee break
10:30
Standard imaging & deconvolution - part II  (J. Pety) 
11:30
Lunch break


14:00
Data analysis in the UV plane (A.Castro-Carrizo)
15:00
Coffee break
15:30
Large-scale mapping (F. Gueth)
16:30
Session closing


Thursday, Oct. 5




Session 4
Tutorials


09:00
Calibration tutorial (class A)
11:00
Calibration tutorial (class B)
13:00
Lunch break
 
14:00
Imaging tutorial (class A)
15:30
Imaging tutorial (class B)
17:00
Session closing


19:30
Conference dinner


Friday, Oct. 6



Session 5
Science with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer


09:00
Sensitivity & noise (S.Guilloteau)
10:00
Presentation of selected recent PdBI projects
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Using the Plateau de Bure interferometer (R. Neri)
12:30
Lunch break


Session 6
ALMA


14:00
The ALMA project (R.Laing)
15:30
Coffee break
16:00
The ALMA Regional Center (P.Andreani)
17:00
The ARC node at IRAM (F.Gueth)


18:00
End of School