====== New Skills: Training for Radio Astronomers ====== **This outlines activities supported under RadioNet3, ending December 2015** \\ Coordinators: * Anita M. S. Richards, JBCA, University of Manchester, UK. amsr at jb.man.ac.uk * Contact for general inquiries * Silja Pohjolainen University of Turku, Finland. silpoh at utu.fi * Arancha Castro-Carrizo, IRAM, France ccarrizo at iram.fr \\ We support three major events a year and can provide modest contributions to other events providing training for radioastronomers, within the RadioNet remit: * CASA: coordinated by Martin Zwaan mzwaan at eso.org * LOFAR: coordinated by Rene Vermeulen rvermeulen at astron.nl * Spectrum Management: coordinated by Axel Jessner at mpifr-bonn.mpg.de * Other: please contact Anita Richards for information. \\ ===== Past events ===== Also see the [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/events | RadioNet Calendar]] \\ \\ [[http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/arc/tw/bin/view/External/EUARCCASATutorialJan2012 | CASA training]] ESO, 19-20 January 2012; Find here the report: {{:na:rn3_na_report_casa2012.pdf|Report}} \\ **Young European Radio Astronomers' Conference** 18-21 September 2012, Pushchino Radio Observatory, Russia [[http://prao.ru/conf/yerac2012/index.html | YERAC 2012]] \\ **8th IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School** IRAM Grenoble, 15-19 October, 2012 [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-248-7-67-248-0-0.html | IRAM school 2012]] \\ **Advanced radio interferometry, commissioning skills and preparation for the SKA** \\ 13 - 16 November 2012, JBCA, University of Manchester, UK.\\ [[http://www.alma.ac.uk/events/radionet-advanced-radio-astronomy | Workshop details including links to talks]] Find here the report: {{:na:d4.2_deliverable_12.12.20.pdf|Report}} \\ [[http://www.eso.org/projects/alma/arc/tw/bin/view/External/EUARCCASATutorialFeb2013 | CASA training]] ESO, 21-22 February 2013; Find here the report: {{:na:rn3_na_report_casa2013.pdf|Report}} \\ **[[http://www.alma.ac.uk/events/scuba-2-data-reduction-2013|SCUBA2 data reduction workshop]]** Manchester, UK, 28 Feb (~9am) - 1 Mar (~1pm) 2013 \\ ** [[http://www.evga.org/vlbi_school.html | EGU and IVS Training School on VLBI for Geodesy and Astronomy]]**, March 2-­5, 2013 in Espoo, Finland, {{:na:egu.pdf|Report}} \\ **CESRA science meeting** [[http://wave.asu.cas.cz/cesra2013 | New eyes looking at solar activity: Challenges for theory and simulations]] Prague, Czech Republic, June 24-29, 2013 ({{:na:quesera:130624_rn3_quesera_cesra-trip-report.pdf|Report}} \\ [[http://www.alma.inaf.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=145 | Polarization data reduction in CASA]] Bologna, 25-28 June 2013, Find here the report: {{:na:polarization_with_alma_report.pdf|Report}} \\ **European Radio Interferometry School** [[http://www.astron.nl/eris2013/ | ERIS 2013]] September 9-13, ASTRON, The Netherlands {{:na:d4.5_rn3_deliverable_eris_131128.pdf|Report}} \\ **IRAM millimetre single dish summer school** [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-265-7-67-265-0-0.html | 7th IRAM 30m Summer School]]13-20 September 2013 Pradollano, near Granada, Spain {{:na:management:d4.6_rn3_deliverable_30mschool_131104.pdf|Report}} \\ **Young European Radio Astronomers' Conference** [[http://www2.physik.uni-bielefeld.de/yerac2013.html | XXXIII YERAC]] September 30 to October 3 2013, Bielefeld, Germany {{:na:management:d4.4_rn3_deliverable_131104.pdf|Report}} \\ **ALMA training and community days:** London (UCL) 1 November 2013 see www.alma.ac.uk/events {{:na:radionet3_london_alma_com_day_final.pdf|Report}} \\ **ESO ALMA community days 2013** [[http://almascience.eso.org/local-news/alma-community-days-2013 | ALMA community days ]] 19-20 November 2013, ESO Garching {{:na:radionet3_alma_community_days_prep_for_cycle_2_final2.pdf|Report}} \\ **[[http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/meetings/emerlin2014/|e-MERLIN Data School]]**, 20-21 January 2014, Manchester UK {{:na:radionet_e-merlin_data_school2014.pdf|Report}} \\ **IUCAF 4th School on Spectrum Management for Radio Astronomy** [[http://www.iucaf.org/sms2014/ | Spectrum Management School]] April 7 - 13 2014, Joint ALMA Observatory, Santiago, Chile. {{:na:radionet3_report_4school_spectrum_mgt_for_ra_final.pdf|Report}} \\ **Young European Radio Astronomers' Conference** [[http://yerac2014.astro.uni.torun.pl/ | XXXIV YERAC]] September 8-12, 2014, Torun, Poland {{:na:d4.7_rn3_deliverable_newskills_141107.pdf|Report}} \\ **14th European Solar Physics Meeting** [[http://www.espm14.ie/ | ESPM-14]] 8-12 September 2014, Dublin, Ireland {{:na:espm-14_radionet3_report.pdf|Report}} \\ **Techniques for Radio Weak Lensing meeting** [[http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/meetings/rwl2014/ | RadioGREAT]] Manchester, UK 6-7 of October 2014 {{:na:20141006_radioweaklensing2014_report.pdf|Report}} \\ **[[http://www.astron.nl/lofarschool2014/ | LOFAR Data School]]** November 17-21 2014 {{:na:radionet_report_lofar_school_22_december.pdf|Report}} \\ Travel for training at IRAM 30-m \\ ====== 2015 Events ====== \\ \\ ** [[http://www.jive.nl/mm-vlbi2015/index.php|mm VLBI data processing]]** 8-11 June 2015, Leiden, The Netherlands {{:na:radionet_mm-vlbi_report_150818.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ ** [[http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2015/STEPS2015.html|Stellar End Products]]** ESO Garching, 6-10 July, 2015 (support for some student travel) \\ \\ **[[http://www.astro.gla.ac.uk/cesra2015 | 2015 CESRA solar radio summer school]]** August 24-28 2015, Glasgow {{:na:d4.8_rn3_deliverable_newskills_150831.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ **[[http://yerac2015.venta.lv/|Young European Radio Astronomers' Conference]]** 2015 Ventspils, Latvia 19-21 Aug 2015 {{:na:d4.10_rn3_deliverable_newskills_151002.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ **[[http://www.eso.org/sci/meetings/2015/eris2015.html|ERIS 2015]]** 6-10 Sep ESO Garching, Germany {{:na:d4.11_rn3_deliverable_na_new_skills_150928.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ **[[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-308-7-67-308-0-0.html | IRAM 30-m single dish school]]** Granada, 11-18 September 2015 {{:na:d4.12_rn3_deliverable_newskills_151001.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ **[[http://www.utu.fi/en/units/finca/research/Tuorla2015/Pages/home.aspx | North-European Radio Astronomy School 2015]]** FINCA, Tuorla Observatory, Finland, October 4-9, 2015 {{:na:nordic_baltic_school_turku2015.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ **[[http://ecole-doctorale.obspm.fr/-International-Young-Astronomers-School- | IYAS 2015]]** Sevres, France, 16-20 November 2015 {{:na:iyas_sevres.pdf|Report}} \\ \\ ====== Previous Events ====== **European Radio Interferometry Schools** including lectures and tutorials. NB data reduction packages and data formats evolve with time, please look for the most up to date versions on the relevant package or observatory web site. * [[http://www.ira.inaf.it/meetings/rm11/ | ERIS 2011 Rimini]] * [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-182-7-67-182-0-0.html | ERIS 2010 IRAM]] * [[http://astrowiki.physics.ox.ac.uk/ERIS2009 | ERIS 2009 Oxford]] * [[ http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-111-7-67-109-111-0.html | ERIS 2008 IRAM]] Lectures and training materials produced for other events are linked to the [[http://www.evlbi.org/meetings/ | EVN/VLBI/ERIS Schools page]] \\ \\ ** IRAM 30-m Single Dish Schools ** * [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-202-7-67-202-0-0.html | 2001]] * [[http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page.php?ContentID=139&rub=7&srub=67&ssrub=109&sssrub=139&ssssrub=0 | 2009]] \\ ** Solar ** * [[http://www.lesia.obspm.fr/cesra/summer2010/ | CESRA Summer School 2010]] (proceedings due to be published soon) \\ ** YERAC ** See www.yerac.org \\ ====== Acknowledgement, Travel and organisation notes ====== ** RadioNet Acknowledgment and materials ** For meetings etc. receiving RadioNet support, //RadioNet should be acknowledged in promotional material and at the event//. Please see [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/radionet3wiki/doku.php?id=na:outreach:step_by_step| STEP BY STEP ]] to download the required materials and information. We can also provide free materials such as pens, TNA information and possibly T-shirts, see [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/radionet3wiki/doku.php?id=na:outreach | Outreach]] \\ ** Support for events ** If you are planning a radio astronomy training event and would like RadioNet support please contact us well in advance to discuss what is available and what is eligible. \\ Meeting organisers, please provide in advance a list of the names, institutes and countries of all participants. If anyone is attending from outside the partner countries, it will be simplest to issue everyone with an advance invitation (which has to come from the WP4 coordinator). Participants should be encouraged to get their institutes to support them where possible, but if not, it is normally simple to support people from the [[http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/who_en.html#countries | EU and associated countries]] (within the overall budget, of course). People from most other countries apart from the richest can usually also be supported if funds allow, but in all these cases an invitation is required. Also please supply a signed list of all participants who actually attended, after the meeting, when sending in the claim form(s). \\ Additional finance from non-RadioNet sources may be available for *participants from less well-off countries*. It is up to the organisers of each event to decide whether to support the applications of individuals, depending on factors such as how useful the meeting would be for them. These are funding sources which must be applied for independently, often 6 months or more in advance, and RadioNet has no say over the outcome but they may help with e.g. intercontinental air travel which is outside our budget. ** Useful links ** * [[http://oea.ictp.it/oea/programmes/oad/ | International Centre for Theoretical Physics/Office of Astronomy Development]] * [[http://www.scholars4dev.com | International scholarships for developing countries (mostly for visits to/from USA)]] * [[http://www.africanastronomicalsociety.org | African Astronomical Society]] * [[http://royalsociety.org/grants/ | UK Royal Society (visits to/from UK, usually requiring ongoing collaboration)]] * Many other national Academies of Science, Astronomical Societies etc. Please note that it is the responsibility of the applicant to identify suitable potential sources of non-RadioNetfunding, well in advance, and to ensure that s/he meets eligibility criteria. \\ ===== After the event ===== \\ **Travel claims** \\ [[http://www.radionet-eu.org/na-travel-forms | Travel claim forms]] You can only claim for expenses actually incurred. For example, if you cancel at the last minute but the flight or accomodation is non-refundable, you (or your insurance) are liable (even if RadioNet would have paid if you had attended). Normally, the meeting organiser will gather up all completed claim forms, receipts etc. and contact me to arrange sending them in for payment (it may be quicker to send the forms to JIVE first, but in all cases please keep a copy). \\ **Report** \\ After an event which has received RadioNet support, the organiser should download the report template {{:na:rn3_na_report_template_130913-5.doc|NA report template}} , rename it, fill it in and return it to me as soon as convenient or within one month if at all possible (please contact me in case of questions or delays). For major deliverables (ERIS, YERAC, IRAM and Solar/other events with >5k RadioNet funding), please use {{:na:rn3_deliverables_template_na.doc|NA deliverables template}}. Thank you. \\ Dr. A.M.S. Richards, UK ARC Node, Room 3.135 \\ Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Alan Turing Building, \\ University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK \\ \\ ** Visas ** \\ Please check whether you need a visa, how long it takes to obtain and what information you need and ask the meeting organiser in good time, giving full details of the information needed. Meeting organisers need to be able to supply information e.g. details of accomodation, subsistence support etc., and send an intivation letter, in good time, which may be several months. \\ [[Horizons2020]] ===== Deliverables ===== \\ {{:na:rn3_deliverables_template_na.doc|Template for deliverables}} \\ * [[na:new_skills:List of the Deliverables]] \\