[ASA] 2018 ICRAR/CASS Radio School - 1st announcement

[Tobias Westmeier]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2018 
ICRAR/CASS Radio School to be held in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 
the week of October 1-5, 2018. The School is jointly hosted by the 
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research and CSIRO Astronomy 
and Space Science, with generous support from the Pawsey Supercomputing 
Centre.

While past Radio Schools in Australia have traditionally been designed 
around the ATCA and Parkes, we are now turning our focus towards the new 
capabilities provided by the SKA precursor telescopes in Western 
Australia, namely ASKAP and the MWA.

In addition to teaching the fundamentals of radio interferometry, the 
School will introduce participants to hands-on reduction of data from 
ASKAP and MWA. With the advent of science operations on ASKAP and MWA 
phase 2, the School also intends to facilitate more cross-use of the two 
facilities and to expose participants to tools and techniques likely to 
be useful for analysis of data from the future Square Kilometre Array. 
Participants will also be introduced to the Pawsey Supercomputing 
Centre, part of which is dedicated to the reduction and analysis of 
radio astronomy data.

The 2018 ICRAR/CASS Radio School is aimed at PhD students and 
postdoctoral researchers in astronomy. The format of the School will be 
similar to previous CASS Radio Schools, with a mix of lectures and 
practical sessions. No prior experience with radio interferometry is 
required. Attendance will be limited, and priority will be given to 
students and early-career postdocs.

The registration fee will be AUD 300 and will cover lunches, tea/coffee, 
the conference dinner, and a day trip to the Murchison Radio-astronomy 
Observatory, the site of ASKAP, MWA, EDGES, and the future home of the 
low-frequency component of the SKA.

For more information on the School and the registration form, please see 
the official Radio School website:

https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/tLyXC4QZ1RFro4mJfOL4Ea?domain=icrar.org

Please don’t hesitate to contact either Tobias Westmeier 
(tobias.westmeier at icrar.org) or any other member of the SOC if you have 
any questions or enquiries regarding the School.

Best wishes,

   Tobias Westmeier
   on behalf of the SOC



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Tobias Westmeier
Senior Research Fellow

ICRAR M468
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Australia

Telephone: +61 (0)8 6488 4592
E-mail:    tobias.westmeier at uwa.edu.au
Website:   https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/bYibC5QZ29FAvkx0IO4Fk_?domain=atnf.csiro.au
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