The summer school will take place from 3 Dec 2012 to 7 Dec 2012 in Sutherland, South Africa. An initial outline for the programme is now available here.
Lectures
- Introduction to Astronomical Observations (David Buckley)
- Introduction to Atmospheric Turbulence (Aziz Ziad)
- Light Propagation through Atmospheric Turbulence (Aziz Ziad)
- Introduction to Site Testing Instruments
- Seeing measuring instruments (Aziz Ziad)
- Profiling instruments (Laure Catala)
- Site Selection, meteorology, and climatology (Eddy Graham) [ppx]
- Instrumentation and Control
- PBL and GSM (Yan Fontei)
- timDIMM and other software (Tim Pickering)
- Archiving and analysis (Steve Crawford)
- Introduction to Adaptive Optics (Jean Marc Conan)
- Introduction to CAOS (Marcel Carbillet)
- Adaptive Optics (Jean Marc Conan)
- AO Instrumentation (Matt Kenworthy)
- AO Experiences (Matt Kenworthy)
Friday Talks (tentative)
10:00 Kenyan Site Selection (report) [Eddy]
10:15 Ethiopian Astronomy [Getinet & Tolu]
10:45 Kenyan Site Selection [Cyrus]
11:00 Activities at University of Nairobi [Geoffrey]
11:15 Gemini Video [Jean-Marc]
11:20 Coffee Break
11:30 Zambia Astronomy [Prospery]
11:45 Boyden Observatory [Pat]
12:00 HartRAO Space Geodesy [Marissa]
11:45 Boyden Observatory [Pat]
12:00 HartRAO Space Geodesy [Marissa]
12:05 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:00 E-ELT Site Selection (tool) [Eddy]
14:30 AO Experiences [Matt]
15:30 Understanding Gas Dynamics and Star Formation in Galaxies [Moses]
16:00
16:30 Outreach activities in Sutherland [Anthony Mietas]
Tutorials
- timDIMM demonstration
- CAOS Tutorial
- Weather and Climate Datasets
- Open Grads
- ECMWF
- AO Tutorial