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5th Chandra/CIAO Workshop Program Schedule




Wednesday, 29 October 2003
9:00-9:05 Welcome (Harvey Tananbaum)
9:05-9:20 Chandra Overview (Dan Schwartz)
9:20-10:20 Introduction to X-Ray Data Analysis (Randall Smith)
 
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
 
10:40-11:00 Introduction to CIAO (Antonella Fruscione)
11:00-11:30 Sherpa: CIAO's Modeling and Fitting Application (Aneta Siemiginowska)
11:30-12:00 Source Detection (Frank Primini)
 
12:00-1:30 Lunch
 
1:30-2:30 Statistics in the X-ray Regime (Peter Freeman)
2:30-2:50 Aspect Issues (Tom Aldcroft)
2:50-3:10 ChaRT: the Chandra Ray Tracer (Margarita Karovska)
3:10-3:20 Introduction to the Hands-on Session (Liz Galle)
 
3:20 Coffee Break; Hands-on Session starts
6:30 Hands-on Session ends
Fun group outing led by Jonathan McDowell begins


Thursday, 30 October 2003
9:00-9:20 Chandra Calibration (Larry David)
9:20-9:50 Analysis of Point-Like Sources (Doug Burke)
9:50-10:20 Grating Analysis (Nancy Brickhouse)
 
10:20-10:40 Coffee Break
 
10:40-11:00 Analysis of Extended Sources (Mike Wise)
11:10-11:30 Timing Analysis (Mike Nowak)
 
11:30 Hands-on Session starts;
breaks for lunch and afternoon coffee
5:30 Hands-on Session ends
Visitors may participate in the CfA's celebration of Oktoberfest


Friday, 31 October 2003
9:00-9:30 Scripting in CIAO (John Houck)
9:30-10:00 Pileup Modeling (John Davis)
 
10:00 Coffee Break; Hands-on Session starts;
breaks for lunch and afternoon coffee
4:30 Workshop ends