{"id":926,"date":"2022-12-02T11:34:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/?page_id=926"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T07:30:27","slug":"lofar_science_school","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/lofar_science_school\/","title":{"rendered":"LOFAR Science School"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>22 &#8211; 26 May 2023<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Where:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/sofiatech.bg\/en\/venue\/auditoriya-3-etazh-1-laboratoren-kompleks\/\">Auditorium 3, Floor 1, Laboratory Complex, <strong>Sofia Tech Park<\/strong><\/a><\/mark><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d2933.6881729555!2d23.3714319113399!3d42.667962965473805!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x40aa8740d124b5d5%3A0xaa38eb754748d7ae!2sLabs%20%40%20Sofia%20Tech%20Park!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sbg!4v1684733202801!5m2!1sen!2sbg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"border:0;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>Aim<\/strong>: The school aims to provide knowledge about\u00a0 the LOFAR telescope and the various scientific topics that can be pursued with. The main target group is students and postdocs who have not worked with LOFAR before. Lectures, demos and tutorials will be presented by members of the STELLAR project team. Interaction and networking between participants and lecturers will be promoted via Q&amp;A sessions as well as team building activities.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-vivid-cyan-blue-color has-text-color\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/nn2eqX2CP76wfD6u8\" target=\"_blank\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><\/mark><\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-vivid-red-color has-text-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong><em>Deadline for Applying:<\/em><\/strong> 15 April 2023<br><strong><em>Notification of acceptance:<\/em><\/strong> 20 April 2023<br><strong><em>Language:<\/em><\/strong> English<br><strong><em>Requirements:<\/em><\/strong> laptop, familiarity with Python.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><strong>LECTURERS:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Dr. Harish Vedantham,\u00a0 ASTRON, Netherlands<br>Dr. Pietro Zucca, ASTRON, Netherlands<\/mark><br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Dr. Maaijke Mevius, ASTRON, Netherlands<br>Dr. Peijin Zhang, University of Helsinki and IANAO, BG<\/mark><br>Dr. Kamen Kozarev, IANAO, BG<br>Dr. Rositsa Miteva, IANAO, BG<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\"><br>Jeremy Rigney, DIAS, Ireland<br>Mohamed Nedal, IANAO, BG<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOC:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Antoaneta Anonova, IANAO, BG<br>Dr. Kamen Kozarev, IANAO, BG<br>Dr. Rositsa Miteva, IANAO, BG<br>Dr. Momchil Dechev, IANAO, BG<br>Asen Mutafov, IANAO, BG<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">TOPICS:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">1. Radio astronomy at low frequencies<br>2.The LOFAR telescope and observing with it<br>3. LOFAR data inspection and initial reduction<br>4. Science with LOFAR &#8211; from the Epoch of reionisation to the present-day Solar system<br>5. Hands-on practicals with interferometric and beamformed data.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>PROGRAM\u041c\u0415<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">:<\/mark><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">8:30 &#8211; 9:00 Registration<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">9:00 \u2013 9:30 Welcome and starting remarks, STELLAR Project (Kamen Kozarev)<br>9:30 \u2013 10:15 <a href=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RM_intro_radioastronomy.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Introduction to radio astronomy<\/mark><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1rckSvoRFO1dyTY_8pSUozheFu1nI7l0R\/view?usp=drive_link\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"> (Rositsa Miteva)<\/mark><\/a><br>10:15 \u2013 11:00 <a href=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/RM_low_freq_radioastronomy.pdf\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Radio astronomy at low frequencies (Rositsa Miteva)<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>11:00 \u2013 11:30 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">11:30 \u2013 13:00&nbsp;&nbsp;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1LDo2tHNBAT6Cw90YeotG1SZmCnVh2So4\/view?usp=share_link\">Introduction to Interferometry<\/a> (Harish Vedantham)&nbsp;<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>13:00 \u2013 14:00 LUNCH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">14:00 \u2013 15:00&nbsp;(<strong>online<\/strong>) 2DFFT&nbsp;and interferometry&nbsp; (Maaijke Mevius)<br>15:00 &#8211; 16:00 <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/onsala-space-observatory\/APSYNSIM\">APSYNSIM interactive demo<\/a> (Kamen Kozarev)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>16:00 \u2013 16:30 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">16:30 \u2013 17:30 <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">(<strong>online<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1nzFyHUWt4FGSez4yuYGI97GmdKVnIQot\/view?usp=share_link\">Removal of instrumental and ionospheric effects from the data<\/a> (Maaijke Mevius)<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Tuesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">9:00 \u2013 9:50\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JwqLJtzlEZWPjgkV9zWTYwM762sIE10-\/view?usp=drive_link\">Introduction to LOFAR<\/a> (Pietro Zucca)<br>9:50 \u2013 10:30\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1jKfxKrVfDa-_hmH1Hxz6teYOWA0uIGcw\/view?usp=drive_link\">LOFAR proposals &amp; access<\/a> (Pietro Zucca)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>10:30 \u2013 11:00 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">11:00 \u2013 11:30&nbsp;Accessing data from the LTA (Pietro Zucca)<br>11:30 \u2013 12:30&nbsp;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">(<strong>online<\/strong>) <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/11PqYvRUBc6H2uDH04OpmhXLHa80r_7en\/view?usp=share_link\">Raw data quality assessment (Peijin Zhang)<\/a><\/mark><br>12:30&nbsp;\u2013 13:00 Practice: access to computer nodes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>13:00 \u2013 14:00 LUNCH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">14:00 \u2013 15:00&nbsp;<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/introduction-to-lofar-data-processing-tutorial\/\" target=\"_blank\">Measurement set and accessing data<\/a> (Harish Vedantham)<\/mark><br>15:00 \u2013 16:00 <mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stellar-h2020.eu\/index.php\/introduction-to-lofar-data-processing-tutorial\/\">Flagging and calibration<\/a>&nbsp;(Harish Vedantham)<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>16:00 \u2013 16:30 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">16:30 \u2013 17:30 Checking and applying calibration solutions&nbsp;(Harish Vedantham)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Wednesday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">9:00 \u2013 9:50 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1wV-JFLIdO5Ii4KAJecyK9wdot5lh8CgD\/view?usp=drive_link\">Radio emissions from the Sun<\/a> (Pietro Zucca)<br>9:50 \u2013 10:30 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1NC4CepY5QSMGAWYkjFK8F28kHR9s9nui\/view?usp=drive_link\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Radio emissions from stars and planets (Harish Vedantham)<\/mark><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>10:30 \u2013 11:00 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">11:00 \u2013 11:50 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1H9dwC0pwNDHGk3rto_XvBPMACr75x33T\/view?usp=drive_link\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Single station science (Jeremy Rigney)<\/mark><\/a><br>11:50 \u2013 12:30 <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1seB1v8jaQG54x3Hqpu-y3Pu-deoJSd_j\/view?usp=drive_link\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\">Radio transients (FRBs, pulsars) (Jeremy Rigney)<\/mark><\/a><br>12:30 \u2013 13:00 Q&amp;A<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>13:00 \u2013 14:00 LUNCH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">14:00 \u2013 15:00&nbsp;(<strong>online<\/strong>)&nbsp;Imaging \u2013 Quality assessment of calibrated data &amp; wsclean (Peijin Zhang)<br>15:00 \u2013 16:00&nbsp;Imaging with wsclean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>16:00 \u2013 16:30 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">16:30 \u2013 17:30 Imaging with wsclean<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Thursday<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">9:00 \u2013&nbsp;10:30&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1JgqIWWr2oL7F9fz_D6DERfPlOlI5-eUJ\/view?usp=share_link\">Beamformed data processing 1<\/a> (Pietro Zucca &amp; Mohamed Nedal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>10:30 \u2013 11:00 COFFEE BREAK<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">11:00 \u2013 13:00&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1TxgxvPG97DeCaivxvsk3LDBZAWbR0xs9\/view?usp=share_link\">Beamformed data processing&nbsp;2<\/a> (Pietro Zucca &amp; Mohamed Nedal)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>13:00 \u2013 13:30 LUNCH<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>13:30 \u2013 14:00<\/em> Visit to Discoverer Petascale Supercomputer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">14:00 \u2013 16:00<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-pale-cyan-blue-color\">&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1n15Iqu_YrOsRHCMFp0GXGIPaYMWJS9kn\/view?usp=share_link\">Beamformed data processing <\/a><\/mark><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1n15Iqu_YrOsRHCMFp0GXGIPaYMWJS9kn\/view?usp=share_link\">3<\/a>&nbsp;(Pietro Zucca &amp; 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26 May 2023 Where: Auditorium 3, Floor 1, Laboratory Complex, Sofia Tech Park Aim: The school aims to provide knowledge about\u00a0 the LOFAR telescope and the various scientific topics that can be pursued with. 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