Nordic-Baltic Millimetre and Optical/NIR Astronomy Summer School

A second Nordic-Baltic Summer School, focusing on Millimetre and Optical/NIR Astronomy, will be held in Goteborg/Onsala, from Monday June 14th to Wednesday June 23rd 2010, and will focus on

"Extragalactic astronomy in the ALMA era"

This topic is timely as ALMA is expected to enter its Early Science phase by the end of 2010. Although concentrating on the main extragalactic science areas with ALMA, the school will also emphasise the importance of complementary observations at other wavebands, in particular optical/IR observations. Scientific lectures will encompass nearby galaxies, activity in starbursts, AGNs, Supernovae/ GRBs and galaxies in the early Universe. In addition, the school will offer tutorials on millimeter interferometric data reduction (mostly using the new CASA data reduction package) and on optical/IR techniques. An essential part of the course will be the research projects conducted in small groups which will use archive millimetre interferometry data, Onsala 20m single dish data and remote optical/IR observations using the Nordic Optical Telescope (NOT) in La Palma. The school will welcome about 20 students. Nordic/Baltic PhD students working in extragalactic astronomy are especially welcome to apply. Places are however also available to students working in other areas who are likely in the future to make significant use of ALMA. Attendance at the school and completion of the project will give students higher education points to contribute to their graduate education requirements in their home countries.

http://www.astro.utu.fi/conf/nordforsk09/

Contacts
Further information can be obtained from Raine Karjalainen (rkarjala(at)not.iac.es) or Johannes Andersen (ja(at)not.iac.es) at NOT, or from Leo Takalo (takalo(at)utu.fi) at Tuorla.