Programme
The main emphasis of the school is on practical observations. The students will be divided into groups of four who will, with the help of an experienced tutor, plan and carry out astronomical observations. These observations are then reduced and analysed. During the last day of the school each group will present their work to the others. The first week of the school will take place in the Rozhen Observatory and the second one in Sofia. During the second week the school is combined with a Hot Topics conference.
The programme is still preliminary and will be updated as more lectures and teachers are confirmed.
Programme for the 2019 NEON Observing School
Sunday September 15
Arrival in Sofia
20:00 - 20:30 Welcome drink
20:30 -> Dinner
Monday September 16
~15:00 Arrival in Rozhen Observatory
15:00 - 16:00 Settling to your accommodation
16:00 - 16:30 Welcome, logistics and introductions
16:30 - 17:15 Project introductions
17:15 - 19:00 Assignment of groups and the first group meeting
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 1: work with the tutor and/or observations
Tuesday September 17
11:00 - 19:00 Planning observations, reducing data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 Seeing instrument change at the 2 metre telescope
15:30 - 17:00 Astronomical detectors (Amico)
17:00 - 19:00 Group work, planning observations
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 2: work with tutors and/or observing
Wednesday September 18
11:00 - 19:00 Planning observations, reducing data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Observing techniques - photometry (Boffin)
16:00 - 17:00 Introduction Adaptive Optics (Amico)
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 3: work with the tutor and/or observations
Thursday September 19
11:00 - 19:00 Planning observations, reducing data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Observing techniques - spectroscopy (Korhonen)
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 4: work with tutors and/or observing
Friday September 20
11:00 - 19:00 Planning observations, reducing data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Observing techniques - infra-red (Ivanov)
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 4: work with tutors and/or observing
Saturday September 21
11:00 - 19:00 Planning observations, reducing data
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
19:00 - 20:00 Dinner
20:00 -> Observing night 6: working with tutors and/or observing
Sunday September 22
Travel to Sofia with a visit to Plovdiv
20:00 - 20:30 Welcome drink together with the Hot Topics participants
20:30 -> Dinner
Monday September 23
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to the second week of the school and people (Korhonen)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Writing observing time proposals (Korhonen + Heidt)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
19:00 -> Dinner
Tuesday September 24
09:30 - 11:00 Hot Topics in stellar astrophysics (Korhonen)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 Multi-wavelength astronomy with MAGIC (Lindfors)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
19:00 -> Dinner
21:30-> Remote connection to MAGIC
Wednesday September 25
10:00 - 11:30 Transient Sky (Ivanov)
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00 Career discussion (Korhonen)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 19:00 Free afternoon
19:00 -> Dinner
Thursday September 26
09:30 - 11:00 The art of scientific publishing I (Kiss)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 The first galaxies (Bunker)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30 What is OPTICON? (Pebody)
14:30 - 16:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work, reducing and analysing data
19:00 -> Dinner
Friday September 27
09:30 - 11:00 The art of scientific publishing II (Kiss)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 JWST and other future space missions (Ward)
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Group work
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 19:00 Group work
19:00 -> Dinner
Saturday September 28
10:00 - 11:00 Discussion on proposal exercise
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00 NEON School group presentations
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:00 NEON School group presentations
15:00 - 15:15 Concluding remarks (Korhonen)
19:00 -> Closing dinner
Sunday September 29
Leaving Sofia
Teachers
- Paola Amico, European Southern Observatory, Germany (NEON)
- Henri Boffin, European Southern Observatory, Germany (NEON)
- Andrew Bunker, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK (Hot Topics)
- Jochen Heidt, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Germany
- Valentin Ivanov, European Southern Observatory, Germany (NEON + Hot Topics)
- Laszlo Kiss, Konkoly Observatory, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary (Hot Topics)
- Heidi Korhonen, DARK, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark (NEON + Hot Topics)
- Elina Lindfors, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, Finland (Hot Topics)
- Gudrun Pebody, OPTICON project manager, IoA, University of Cambridge, UK (Hot Topics)
- Martin Ward, Durham University, UK (Hot Topics)
Tutors
- Marco Berton, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, Aalto university, Finland
- Jochen Heidt, Landessternwarte Heidelberg, Germany
- Valentin Ivanov, European Southern Observatory, Germany
- Elina Lindfors, Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, Finland
- Ivanka Stateva, Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria