Dunlap
Institute 2014 Summer School
INTRODUCTION
TO ASTRONOMICAL INSTRUMENTATION:
First
Light on the Decade’s Most Innovative Instruments
University
of Toronto
Toronto,
Ontario, Canada
10 - 15
August 2014
The
annual Dunlap Institute Summer School is designed with both
lecture and laboratory activities and is intended for students
who have finished at least the 3rd year of an
undergraduate program or are in the early years of a graduate
program, and have a background in astronomy, physics, or
engineering.
Students
will:
§ Learn
basic principles of OPTICAL, INFRARED and RADIO instrumentation
§ Learn how detectors and spectrographs work
§ Attend a hands-on Fourier Transform Spectrometer
lab
§ Learn in lecture and hands-on laboratory sessions
§ Work with students from around the world
§ Learn about a career in instrumentation
§ Learn from leaders in the field
of astronomical instrumentation
§ Attend professional development sessions, incl. a
mentoring lunch for female students
§ Experience the U of T - Canada’s premiere astronomy
research institute
Registration
Fee (without waiver): $500.00
Travel
subsidies and registration fee waivers available.
Apply at:
dunlap.utoronto.ca/summer-school
Applications
and travel subsidy deadline: 11 April 2014
INVITED
INSTRUCTORS:
René Doyon,
Université de Montréal
James Graham,
University of California, Berkeley
Olivier
Guyon, University of Arizona/Subaru Telescope/JPL
Phil Hinz,
University of Arizona
Anna Moore,
California Institute of Technology
David Naylor,
University of Lethbridge
Christine
Wilson, McMaster University
DUNLAP
INSTITUTE INSTRUCTORS:
Tuan Do
Rachel
Friesen
Jérome Maire
Laura
Newburgh
Michael
Reid
Suresh
Sivanandam
Keith
Vanderlinde
Shelley
Wright
