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EUROPEAN RADIO INTERFEROMETRY SCHOOL (ERIS) 2007 — BONN LECTURE PROGRAM (Draft: 14 August 2007) MONDAY 10th SEPTEMBER 09:00 Anton Zensus Welcome Address Eduardo Ros (LOC) Local Organization Richard Porcas (SOC) Outline of the School Program 09:30 Richard Porcas Introduction to Radio Astronomy 10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Michael Garrett General Introduction to Radio Interferometers 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 14:00 Richard Porcas Basis Theory of an Interferometer 15:30 — 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Walter Alef Introduction to AIPS END SESSION TUESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER 09:00 Simon Garrington Introduction to Interferometry Analysis - Basis Mapping Demonstration 10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Simon Garrington Visibility Data Calibration, Editing, Averaging Demonstration 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 14:00 Andrei Lobanov Self-Calibration and Hybrid Mapping Demonstration 15:00 Garrington/Beswick? The MERLIN Array and eMERLIN 15:30 — 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Richard Strom The Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) 16:30 Tom Muxlow Wide Field Interferometry Demonstration? END SESSION

WEDNESDAY 12th SEPTEMBER 08:00 — 12:30 Visit to the 100m Effelsberg Radio Telescope 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 14:00 Richard Porcas Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) 15:00 Charlot/Reynolds? The European VLBI Network (EVN) 15:30 — 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Steve Tingay VLBI in the Southern Hemisphere 16:30 Cormac Reynolds VLBI Calibration and Mapping Demonstration END SESSION

THURSDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 09:00 Ger de Bruyn Low Frequency Interferometry 10:00 Ger de Bruyn The LOw Frequency ARray (LOFAR) 10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Tim Cawthorne Theory of Polarization Interferometry Demonstation - Cormac Reynolds 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 14:00 Andrei Lobanov Extracting Information from Images and UV Data Demonstration 15:30 — 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Tiziana Venturi The Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (GMRT) 16:30 Ian Stewart A Multi-Frequency Synthesis Mapping Algorithm Demonstation END SESSION

FRIDAY 14th SEPTEMBER 09:00 Rob Beswick Theory of Spectral Line Interferometry Demonstration 10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 Frédéric Gueth High Frequency Interferometry Demonstration? 12:00 Frédéric Gueth The Plateau de Bure MM-Wave Interferometer 12:30 — 14:00 Lunch 14:00 Thomas Krichbaum The Global 3-Millimeter VLBI Array (GMVA) 14:30 Frédéric Gueth The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) 15:00 Steve Tingay The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) 15:30 — 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 Andrei Lobanov The VLBI Space Observatory Programme - VSOP2 16:30 Patrick Charlot Astrometric Interferometry END SESSION

SATURDAY 15th SEPTEMBER 09:00 Tiziana Venturi Planning an Interferometer Observation Demonstration 09:45 Andreas Brunthaler A Case Study of a VLBI Experiment: Local Group Kinematics from VLBI Astrometry of H2O Masers 10:30 — 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 CONCLUDING SESSION 12:30 END OF SCHOOL