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, April 15, 2024 (12:00 AM) to Friday, April 19, 2024 (3:30 PM)

Monday, April 15, 2024

8:00 AM Notification from the LOC: In the LOFAR Slides repository (https://www.astron.nl/lofarslides/index.php) you can find the presentation slides, session recordings as well as additional items. Click on the button in the "School" column for the 2024 row and a table of contents will appear showing the materials.
Notification from the LOC: In the LOFAR Slides repository (https://www.astron.nl/lofarslides/index.php) you can find the presentation slides, session recordings as well as additional items. Click on the button in the "School" column for the 2024 row and a table of contents will appear showing the materials.
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

9:00 AM Registration
Registration
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM Science opportunities & instrument capabilities; data discovery & access
9:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Welcome address

9:45 AM Introduction - Timothy Shimwell

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

1:00 PM Overview of the LOFAR software - Frits Sweijen Vlad Kondratiev
2:00 PM IF data editing techniques - I
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal - I - Maaijke Mevius Christian Groeneveld

4:00 PM Systematic (instrumental & external) effects in LOFAR data: inspection & removal - II - Christian Groeneveld Maaijke Mevius

4:30 PM Low frequency (self-) calibration - Reinout van Weeren

5:00 PM Q&A Session
6:00 PM School dinner - Dwingeloo
School dinner - Dwingeloo
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
9:00 AM IF data editing techniques - II
9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Workflows for LOFAR IF data: an overview - Marco Iacobelli

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

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

1:00 PM Science exploitation of wide field sky images - Tim Shimwell

2:00 PM Transient analysis - Antonia Rowlinson
3:00 PM Visit LOFAR core
Visit LOFAR core
3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

6:00 PM Pancake dinner at De Bospub + bus ride back to hotels
Pancake dinner at De Bospub + bus ride back to hotels
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
9:00 AM IF & BF analysis techniques
9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Beamforming with LOFAR - Vlad Kondratiev

9:30 AM Combining BF & IF observing modes - Pietro Zucca

10:15 AM Beamformed dynamic spectrum and Imaging - Pietro Zucca

11:15 AM Lightning studies with TBB - Sander ter Veen

11:45 AM Q & A Session

1:00 PM LOFAR2.0 capabilities, changes in the data and data processing - Cees Bassa

1:30 PM Low frequency science with LOFAR2.0: future perspective - Jason Hessels
2:00 PM BF science use cases
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Reading BF HDF5 data with Python - Cees Bassa

4:00 PM Reading BF HDF5 data with Python - Vlad Kondratiev
IF science use cases - I
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Polarimetry analysis - Michiel Brentjens

4:00 PM LOFAR VLBI - Roland Timmerman
Thursday, April 18, 2024
9:00 AM IF science use cases - II
9:00 AM - 1:30 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM VLBI data analysis and lofar_facet_selfcal tool usage - Roland Timmerman

11:00 AM Analysis techniques to characterise extended sources - Andrea Botteon
1:30 PM Science data challenge & conclusions
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Contributions

1:30 PM Radio optical science synergies; examples of use cases - Rohit Kondapally
2:15 PM Group activity: science data challenge

2:15 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Reception
Reception
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM Science lecture - Ilse van Bemmel
Science lecture
- Ilse van Bemmel
4:45 PM - 5:45 PM
5:45 PM Bus ride back to hotels
Bus ride back to hotels
5:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday, April 19, 2024
9:00 AM Science data challenge & conclusions
9:00 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

9:00 AM Science data challenge - continued

11:00 AM Science data challenge - report

11:45 AM Q&A session + Questionnaire

12:15 PM Concluding remarks - Program end
12:45 PM Luch
Luch
12:45 PM - 1:45 PM

1:45 PM Preparing for bus ride back to Hoogeveen train station
Preparing for bus ride back to Hoogeveen train station
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM

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