Sunday, January 13 |
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| 00:00 - 06:45 | Martha, Greg, Luke, Tom, David, Becky | A2010 Observing Run in the Control Room | ||
| Throughout the day | Arrival in Puerto Rico. Buses to Observatory.
Pick up keys and registration materials in the cafeteria. Settle into rooms. | |||
| 16:00 | Becky | Meet others at tables in front of cafeteria. Settle into room. Walk to viewing platform at Visitor Center. Please do not wander around the site on your own. |
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| 18:00-? | Becky | Registration and informal evening
meal at cafeteria Sign up for observing slots Sunday (optional) See ALFALFA observing schedule Assignment of Scavenger Hunt #0 For the Scavenger Hunt activities, you will be assigned to a team. Find your team members here. Meet the other members of your team over dinner and start to work on the 0th Scavenger Hunt activity. | ||
Monday, January 14
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Time |
Leader/Activity |
Title/Description |
Parallel Advanced Session |
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| 00:00 - 06:45 | Martha, Greg, Luke, Tom, David, Becky | A2010 Observing Run in the Control Room One hour sessions: sign up at dinner Sunday See the Observing Signups | ||
| 07:00 - 09:00 | Breakfast at Cafeteria | |||
| 09:00 | Robert Kerr (Director, Arecibo Observatory) |
Welcome | ||
| 09:15 | Greg | Overview of the Arecibo Telescope
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Advanced Session I
9:15: Martha: ALFALFA Update 9:40: Lyle: Update on Extended HI sources 10:00: Becky & Adriana: Update on Hα Observations and Reductions | |
| 09:45 | Jessica | Introduction to Radio Astronomy | ||
| 10:25 | Break | |||
| 10:45 | Martha | Introduction to ALFA and ALFALFA | ||
| 11:15 | Martha & Team Leads | Assignment of Scavenger Hunt #1 Find your team members here. | ||
| 11:45 | Lunch at Cafeteria | |||
| 13:00 | Luke | Overview of the Local Universe | ||
| 13:30 | Martha | ALFALFA followup with LBW | ||
| 14:00 | Break | |||
| 14:15 | Martha + Team leads | Work on Scavenger Hunt #1 | ||
| 15:15 | Luke and Greg Everyone |
Remote Observing Demonstration Run | ||
| 16:15 | Luke and Greg Everyone |
Continue practicing Remote Observing Work on Scavenger Hunt #1 |
Advanced Session II
16:15: Rose: Local Cluster Survey Update 16:35: Aileen: Update on X-ray archival data |
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| 17:30 | Dinner at Cafeteria | |||
| Evening | All | 19:00 Movie at the Learning Center: Arecibo at the movies: Contact (1997) (optional)
Free time; sleep! |
Tuesday January 15
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Time |
Leader/Activity |
Title/Description |
Parallel Advanced Session |
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| 00:00 - 06:45 | Greg, ALFALFA faculty | A2010 Observing Run in the Control Room One hour sessions led by ALFALFA observers for beginners See the Observing Signups While observing, complete the Observing Scavenger Hunt |
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| 07:00-09:00 | Breakfast at Cafeteria | |||
| 09:00 - 12:30 | Tours of the Telescope
Meet at the Learning Center Wear Closed-Toe Shoes! | Telescope Platform
Dish Electronics Complete the Tour Scavenger Hunt | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch at Cafeteria | |||
| 13:30 | Patrick Taylor (NAIC) | Planetary Radar Astronomy at Arecibo | ||
| 14:15 | Rose | Star Formation Indicators | ||
| 14:45 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Becky | NSF Responsible Code of Research: CITI Introduction (PDF)
CITI Website |
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| 15:05 | Martha, David, & Team Leads | Discussion of any leftover questions
from Scavenger Hunt #1
Scavenger Hunt #2 assigned |
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| 17:00 | Martha |
Discussion of remaining issues related to SH #2
"Mystery objects" detected by UAT13! Scavenger Hunt #3 assigned Find your team members here. | ||
| 17:00 | Dinner at Cafeteria | |||
| 18:30 | All | 18:30: Learning Center: Discussion with Martha, Greg, and Luke:
Tips on Applying to Graduate School and
Careers in Astronomy
Work on Scavenger Hunt #3 |
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Wednesday January 16
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Time |
Leader/Activity |
Title/Description |
Parallel Advanced Session | |
| 07:00-09:00 | Breakfast in Cafeteria (optional) | |||
| 09:00 | Student Presentations | Talks:
Steven Goldman (SLU): The Zwicky Cluster 1400+0949 Jeremy Schwed (Lafayette): A Tale of Two Groups: USGS 562 and 579 Melissa Marshall (Macalester): SHIELD & FITGALAXY -- A Software Package for Automatic Aperture Photometry of Extended Sources Jonathan Perez and Jose Gabriel Reyes Rivera (UPR): A Wise View of the Zone of Avoidance Posters: Jesse Watson (UWSP): Reduction of Hα Images of Groups and Clusters of Galaxies in the Context of the ALFALFA Undergraduate Project Karl Haislmaier (GMU): Unraveling the Mysteries of the Leo Ring: An Absorption Line Study of an Unusual Gas Cloud Elijah Bernstein Cooper (Macalester): VLA HI Imaging of the Extreme Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxy Leo P |
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| 10:00 | Break/Posters | |||
| 10:30 | Martha and team leaders | Work on Scavenger Hunt #3 | ||
| 12:00 | Lunch at Cafeteria | |||
| 13:15 | Julia Deneva (NAIC) | Pulsar Astronomy at Arecibo | ||
| 14:00 | Dana Whitlow (NAIC) | Q&A with Dana about Arecibo | ||
| 14:45 | Break | |||
| 15:00 | Steven Vogt (UCO/Lick, USC) at Visitor Center Theater |
Across A Sea of Suns: Charting Distant Worlds, Other Earths | ||
| 16:00 | All | Continue work on Scavenger Hunt #3 | ||
| 16:30 | Students: continue to work on SH #3, complete survey | Faculty discussion of future plans | ||
| 17:30 | Dinner at Cafeteria | |||
| 19:00 | All | SH#3 Teams present their results! | ||
Thursday, January 17 |
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| Depart on Bus 1 or Bus 2. Be sure you know your assignment.
Meet at Observatory Gate (Guard House) at 4:00AM for Bus 1 and 8:45AM for Bus 2 to hand in your room key to the guards. (If raining, meeting place will be cafeteria.) Shuttle assignments Breakfast available at Cafeteria for those scheduled for later shuttle. Those on the early shuttle can purchase breakfast at the airport. |
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