ISR SUMMER SCHOOL 

23–29 July 2017

Arecibo Observatory


 

Important references

Pictures

Phil's pictures (external gallery link)

Anja's pictures

Phil Perillat movie of plasma line data during all student experiments:  .mov version   .avi version

Lecturers

Tools


Sunday

-Summer school staff will be at the observatory to answer questions 

-Hiking tours of ISR

-Dinner Meeting for lecturers and organizers at the observatory

-Sandwiches available for participants, as arrivals are staggered

 

Monday

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Welcome (Francisco Cordova, Christiano Brum, Elizabeth Kendall, Mary McCready)

 Introduction of participants and instructors (Elizabeth Kendall)

 Addressing computer needs and other logistics (Arecibo Staff)

 Group assignments (Elizabeth Kendall

09:30 Introduction to the ionosphere (Elizabeth Kendall)

10:15 Break

10:30 ISR as a black box (Bill Rideout)

11:15 Radar 1: Radar Physics (Anthea Coster)  

12:00 Lunch

13:00 ISR Theory 1: ISR phenomena (Anja Strømme)  

14:15 Ionosphere – radar data example delivery (Mike Sulzer, Eliana Nossa, and Christiano Brum)

14:30 Break

14:45 Madrigal database and group work (Bill Rideout)

18:30 Dinner (BBQ Dinner by the pool)

 

Tuesday

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Ionosphere – radar data example discussion (Mike Sulzer, Eliana Nossa, and Christiano Brum)

08:45  Radar 2: Radar Signal Processing (Josh Semeter)

09:30 ISR Theory 2 (Phil Erickson)

10:15 Break

10:45 Radar 3: Statistical Signal Processing (Roger)

11:30 The Arecibo Observatory (Francisco Cordova and Christiano Brum)

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Arecibo experiment design and data analysis (Anja Strømme and Mike Sulzer)

13:45 Support from non-Arecibo ISRs during experiment (Phil Erickson, Mary McCready, Roger Varney) 

14:00  Experiment Design (group work)

15:00 Break

15:30  Experiment Design (group work continued)

18:00  Deadline to submit group experiments

18:30 Dinner

20:00  Elective: MIT IAP Small Radar discussion and demonstration (Phil Erickson)

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

07:30 Breakfast by the pool

08:30 Excursion (beach with sack lunches)

14:00  ISR Theory 3 (Phil Erickson)

15:00 Global ISR Measurements (Anja Strømme)

15:30 Radar 2: More Radar Signal Processing (Josh Semeter)

16:00 Break

16:15 Data analysis and fitting 1 (Roger Varney)

17:45 Retrieve radar data and start to work on group assignments (coffee available for break)

18:30 Group 3 experiment observation begins

19:00 Dinner


Thursday

00:00 Group 1 experiment observation begins

02:00 Group 5 experiment observation begins

04:00 Group 2 and 4 experiment observation begins; Group 2 observes in control room

05:30 Group 4 observes in control room

07:00 Group 3 experiment observation begins

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Data analysis and fitting 2 (Phil Erickson) 

09:00 Phased arrays (Roger Varney)

09:45 Arecibo Science (Christiano Brum)

10:15 Break

10:30  Platform tours and lidar presentation 

12:00 Lunch

13:00 Work on assignment and presentations (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner


 

Friday

07:30 Breakfast

08:30 Question and answer session

10:00 Break

10:30 Active ionospheric modification (Eliana Nossa and Mike Sulzer)

11:15 Work on assignments and presentations

12:00 Lunch

13:30 Work on assignments and presentations (coffee available for break)

19:00 Dinner

21:30 Optics Tour (meet in cafeteria parking lot)

 

Saturday

07:30 Breakfast

08:00 Student presentations (3x30 min)

09:30 Break

09:45 Student presentations (2x30 min)

10:45 Conclusions, Evaluations, and Closing Discussions

12:00 Lunch


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