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"PULSAR TUTORIALS" Workshop |
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| When: | September 25−29, 2017 |
| Where: | MPIfR, room 0.01 |
| Monday, 25 September 2017 (Backends and pulsar searching) | |||
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| 14:00 − 14:15 | Welcome! | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 14:15 − 14:30 | An overview on the major pulsar software packages | Leon Houben | |
| 14:30 − 15:00 | How pulsar back-ends work | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 15:00 − 15:40 | How to search for pulsars (PRESTO) | Alessandro Ridolfi | Practice Material |
| 15:40 − 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 − 16:30 | A new technique for pulsar searching ("jerk" search) | Mohsen Shamohammadi | |
| 16:30 − 17:30 | Single pulse/FRB searches with PRESTO/Heimdall | Leon Houben / Henning Hilmarsson | |
| 17:30 − 18:30 | Practice time | ||
| Tuesday, 26 September 2017 (Computing and Programming) | |||
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| 14:00 − 14:30 | Tips for a faster workflow in Linux | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 14:30 − 14:45 | Computer resources at MPIfR | Gregory Desvignes | |
| 14:45 − 15:30 | How to use Hercules | Gregory Desvignes / Nicolas Caballero | |
| 15:30 − 15:45 | How to use the Bonn/Effelsberg tape archive | Leon Houben | |
| 15:45 − 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 − 16:20 | How to make fast Python codes | Ewan Barr | |
| 16:20 − 16:40 | GPU programming in Python | Nataliya Porayko | Practice Material |
| 16:40 − 17:10 | How to use Docker and Singularity | Henning Hilmarsson | Practice Material |
| 17:10 − 17:40 | Introduction to GitHub | Ewan Barr | |
| 17:40 − 18:30 | Practice time | ||
| Wednesday, 27 September 2017 (Timing basics) | |||
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| 14:00 − 14:30 | A quick introduction to timing | Nicolas Caballero | |
| 14:30 − 15:00 | Basic timing-data reduction (psrchive) | Nicolas Caballero | |
| 15:00 − 15:40 | How to solve a binary pulsar (part 1) | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 15:40 − 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 − 16:45 | How to solve a binary pulsar (part 2) | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 16:45 − 17:45 | Pulsar Timing + Binary models + Multitelescope timing | Nicolas Caballero | |
| 17:45 − 18:30 | Practice time | ||
| Thursday, 28 September 2017 (Advanced timing) | |||
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| 14:00 − 14:30 | Frequentist and Bayesian analysis | Nataliya Porayko | Practice Material |
| 14:30 − 15:00 | How to model DM variations in pulsar timing | Gregory Desvignes | |
| 15:00 − 15:30 | Noise analysis in pulsar timing | Nicolas Caballero | |
| 15:30 − 15:45 | Coffee break | ||
| 15:45 − 16:45 | Introduction to Databases (SQL) | Leon Houben | |
| 16:45 − 18:00 | Practice time | ||
| Friday, 29 September 2017 (Polarimetry + Misc) | |||
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| 14:00 − 14:45 | How to calibrate pulsar data | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 14:45 − 15:15 | Pulsar polarimetry | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 15:15 − 15:45 | How to measure masses in binary pulsars | Joey Martinez | |
| 15:45 − 16:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:00 − 16:30 | Debugging codes | Ewan Barr | |
| 16:30 − 17:15 | Observing with Arecibo | Alessandro Ridolfi | |
| 17:15 − 18:00 | Practice time | ||
