RTN WINTER SCHOOL ON SN OBSERVATIONS AND DATA REDUCTION

Scope
Topics covered
Format
Contributed Lectures
Observations
Programme
Participants

Lodging
How to reach Asiago and the Observatory
Scientific Organizing Committee
Further Info
School poster
Acknowledgements
THE SCHOOL (lectures, pictures, ...)

Scope

The school is meant for the RTN Ph.D. students and postdocs, in order to give them an extensive and complete review on the current observing and reduction techniques, in order to put them in the conditions of autonomously planning the observations and carrying out the data reduction according to what we think is the "right" way of doing it (whatever this means...).
The school will be held in Asiago (Italy), at the Astrophysical Observatory, which hosts the 1.8m Copernicus telescope. This will give us the opportunity of having direct observing sessions, preceded and followed by data reduction lectures and seminars.

Topics covered

SN observations in general: methods, calibrations, problems and precautions

Data reduction for optical imaging and spectroscopy

Data reduction for near-IR imaging and spectroscopy

Polarimetry and Spectropolarimetry

Integral field spectroscopy

A more detailed description can be found here.

Lecturers include Brian Schmidt, Stefano Benetti, Chris Gerardy, Nando Patat and Pierre Antilogus.

Format

The school will last three full days days, allowing for two free mornings, the ones immediately following the observations (if weather permits, of course). The lectures should last about 2 hours each and should include direct demonstrations and practical examples. We are trying to set up a room equipped with some PCs and Internet access for this purpose.

Contributed Lectures

Besides the official lectures, we plan to have some sessions for the young researchers as well. The idea is to invite some of them to give more specialistic talks, about some aspects they have been working on (e.g. S-correction, reddening correction, special observing techniques, different wavelength domains and so on).

A preliminary list of contributed lectures can be found here.

Observations

If weather will permit, we plan to have two observing nights at the 1.8m telescope, equipped with the AFOSC instrument. The nights have been kindly made available by the Padova Supernova Group.

Preliminary programme

The programme will probably keep evolving in the next month or so. Please, check this page from time to time for the latest news.

Mon 7	Evening	Arrival in Asiago
Tue 8	Morning/Afternoon Evening	Lectures Social Dinner
Wed 9	Morning/Afternoon Night	Lectures Observations
Thu 10	Morning Afternoon Night	Sleeping Lectures Observations
Fri 11	Morning Afternoon	Sleeping Farewell

NOTE: in case of bad weather, mornings will be used for discussions and contributed presentations.

A more detailed program can be found here.

List of Participants

A list of the registered participants can be found here.

Lodging

Participants will be lodged at the Pennar Hotel, which is located at about 1km from the Observatory and very close to a "latteria", where you can taste the famous Asiago cheese. We have already booked the hotel rooms for you. The cost is approximately 40 EUR per night, including dinner and breakfast. According to the Hotel's availability, some of the participants will have to share double rooms. If you are not sure you have registered, please check the above list and/or contact us.
As for lunches, Asiago offers a wide range of restaurants, where you can enjoy good food and wine. We will try to arrange a transportation to the town (about 1.m km from the Observatory).