Name: 7th LOFAR Data School, 15-19 April 2024
Start: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-04-19T15:30:00+02:00
Location: ASTRON

7th LOFAR Data School, 15-19 April 2024

from Monday, 15 April 2024 (00:00) to Friday, 19 April 2024 (15:30)

Monday, 15 April 2024

09:00 Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:30
09:30
09:30 - 14:00
Contributions

09:30 Welcome address

09:45 Introduction - Timothy Shimwell

11:00 Data discovery in the LOFAR LTA - Emma van der Wateren

13:00 Overview of the LOFAR software - Frits Sweijen Vlad Kondratiev
14:00
14:00 - 18:00
Contributions

14:00 Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal - I - Maaijke Mevius Christian Groeneveld

16:00 Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal - II - Christian Groeneveld Maaijke Mevius

16:30 Low frequency (self-) calibration - Reinout van Weeren

17:00 Q&A Session
18:00 School dinner - Dwingeloo
School dinner - Dwingeloo
18:00 - 20:00
Tuesday, 16 April 2024
09:00
09:00 - 15:00
Contributions

09:00 Workflows for LOFAR IF data: an overview - Marco Iacobelli

10:00 Quality assessment of LOFAR data - Aleksandar Shulevski Emanuela Orru

11:00 Low frequency (Wide field) imaging - Andre Offringa

13:00 Science exploitation of wide field sky images - Tim Shimwell

14:00 Transient analysis - Antonia Rowlinson
15:00 Visit LOFAR core
Visit LOFAR core
15:00 - 18:00

18:00 Pancake dinner at De Bospub + bus ride back to hotels
Pancake dinner at De Bospub + bus ride back to hotels
18:00 - 20:00
Wednesday, 17 April 2024
09:00
09:00 - 14:00
Contributions

09:00 Beamforming with LOFAR - Vlad Kondratiev

09:30 Combining BF & IF observing modes - Pietro Zucca

10:15 Beamformed dynamic spectrum and Imaging - Pietro Zucca

11:15 Lightning studies with TBB - Sander ter Veen

11:45 Q & A Session

13:00 LOFAR2.0 capabilities, changes in the data and data processing - Cees Bassa

13:30 Low frequency science with LOFAR2.0: future perspective - Jason Hessels
14:00
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Reading BF HDF5 data with Python - Cees Bassa

16:00 Reading BF HDF5 data with Python - Vlad Kondratiev
14:00 - 17:00
Contributions

14:00 Polarimetry analysis - Michiel Brentjens

16:00 LOFAR VLBI - Roland Timmerman
Thursday, 18 April 2024
09:00
09:00 - 13:30
Contributions

09:00 VLBI data analysis and lofar_facet_selfcal tool usage - Roland Timmerman

11:00 Analysis techniques to characterise extended sources - Andrea Botteon
13:30
13:30 - 14:15
Contributions

13:30 Radio optical science synergies; examples of use cases - Rohit Kondapally
14:15

14:15 - 16:00

16:00 Reception
Reception
16:00 - 16:45
16:45 Science lecture - Ilse van Bemmel
Science lecture
- Ilse van Bemmel
16:45 - 17:45
17:45 Bus ride back to hotels
Bus ride back to hotels
17:45 - 18:00
Friday, 19 April 2024
09:00
09:00 - 12:45
Contributions

09:00 Science data challenge - continued

11:00 Science data challenge - report

11:45 Q&A session + Questionnaire

12:15 Concluding remarks - Program end
12:45 Luch
Luch
12:45 - 13:45

13:45 Preparing for bus ride back to Hoogeveen train station
Preparing for bus ride back to Hoogeveen train station
13:45 - 14:00