ALMA Data Handling Workshop

9-12 February 2016 - Area della Ricerca Bologna, Italy

The Italian node of the European ALMA Regional Center is pleased to announce a 4-day ALMA data analysis workshop, with the aim to assist users in learning how to (re)process ALMA data, from raw data to the production of calibrated images and data analysis.

The program will include lectures to introduce the key concepts in the calibration and imaging of interferometric data, and hands-on sessions which will demonstrate their application in the Common Astronomy Software Applications (CASA) package.

Participants will be requested to work on their own laptops. Details on CASA versions and data downloads will be communicated later to the registered participants.

The workshop is open to researchers, post-docs and students interested in working with ALMA data, either their own or taken from the archive. Novice users are welcome!

Program

• February 9th

14:00 14:15 Welcome
14:15 16:00 Introduction to Interferometry
16:00 16:45 ALMA
16:45 17:00 coffee break
17:00 17:15 Hands-on: Sensitivity Calculator
17:15 18:00 Hands-on: UV plane visualization 

• February 10th

9:30 10:15 Alma archive and data tree
10:15 11:00 Hands on exploring the archive
11:00 11:30 coffee break
11:30 12:00 CASA introduction
12:00 13:00 Calibration- Introduction

13:00 Lunch break

14:00 15:30 Hands-on: Checking the calibration results. 
15:30 16:00 coffee break
16:00 18:00 Hands-on: QA2 report/weblog

• February 11th

 9:30 10:30 Imaging - Introduction
 10:30 11:30 Hands-on: Imaging
 11:30 12:00 coffee break
 12:00 13:00 Hands-on: Imaging

 13:00 Lunch break

 14:00 15:30 Hands-on: Data products analysis 
 15:30 16:00 coffee break
 16:00 18:00 Hands-on: Data products analysis 

• February 12th

  9:30 10:00 Self calibration
 10:00 11:00 Hands-on: self calibration
 11:00 11:30 coffee break
 11:30 12:30 Hands-on: self calibration

The trainers will be Nuria Marcelino, Marcella Massardi, Arturo Mignano, Rosita Paladino, and Kazi Rygl, members of the Italian Node of the ALMA Regional Centre.

Participants

View the list of registered participants here (updated to January 29 2016)

Registration

Registration has closed on December 15th, 2015.

No fee is required. For logistical reasons, a maximum of 40 participants can be accepted, on a "first come first serve” basis.

We have reached the maximum number of participants, and have a short waiting list. If any of the registered participants cannot be present, they are kindly requested to inform the organizers as soon as possible, so that their place can be taken by someone else.

Venue, Logistics & contacts

The workshop will take place in the CNR Research Area in Bologna, room 216 (main hall, first floor).

The Institute of Radioastronomy is located in the CNR Research Area in Bologna. It can be reached by following the directions given here.
A selection of hotels in Bologna can be found in this list.

If you have questions, please contact the Italian ARC :

almadata2016@ira.inaf.it