Friday, March 7, 2014

Dunlap Institute Summer School 2014 - University of Toronto, 10-15 August 2014

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.


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