PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Radio Astronomy for the 21st Century
Course I: General concepts of radio interferometry and image synthesis
Lecturer: Prof. Richard A. Perley (NRAO)
email: rperley@nrao.edu
Basic Interferometry I: Fundamentals, and the relation between Brightness and Visibility
Basic Interferometry II: Application to specific Geometries, with examples.
Polarimetry.
Imaging, Deconvolution, and Self-Calibration I: The essentials with application to narrow-band cases.
Imaging, Deconvolution, and Self-Calibration II: Advanced topics, wide-band applications, and non-coplanar baselines.

Course II: Compact Objects, the Dynamic Radio Sky, and 21st Century Radio Telescope Facilities
Lecturer: Prof. James Cordes (Cornell University)
email: jmc33@cornell.edu
Neutron Star and Compact Object Astrophysics
Plasma Propagation Effects (relevant to pulsars, transients, and VLBI)
Precision Astrometry (pulsar distance scale and velocities, Galactic center, Hubble constant, planet detection)
The Dynamic Radio Sky (transient and variable sources; underlying physics, detection methods)
New Radio Arrays and their Key Science Areas

Course III: CMB
Lecturer: Prof. Paolo de Bernardis (University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy)
email: paolo.debernardis@roma1.infn.it
Polarization
Lensing,
Sunyaev and Zel'dovich effect
Instrumentation breakthrough

Course IV: Gravitational Wave Detection with radio pulsar timing arrays
Lecturer: Prof. George Hobbs (CSIRO)
email: george.hobbs@csiro.au
Radio pulsars,
PTA (theory with single antenna, noise response to a GW signal, sensitivity),
Groups and Projects (SKA and others: Nanograv, PPTA, EPTA)

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LUNCH
14:00 - 15:15
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