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Spitzer Data Analysis Workshop #1
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Contents: Overview | Requirements and Pre-requisites | Specific important information about laptops | Late-breaking notes on SMART | Travel and Lodging | Agenda (includes talks) | Feedback Form | Registration
This free 5-day tutorial-style workshop is intended for approved Spitzer program observers, with priority given to Cycle-1 (GO1) observers, who wish to learn more about analyzing their Spitzer Space Telescope data with the various tools supported by the Spitzer Science Center (SSC). The workshop will occur at the SSC (Keith Spalding Bldg.) on the campus of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, CA, USA. The workshop will consist of lectures on instrument performance, calibration, pipeline processing, and tools (such as MOPEX, SPICE, and IRSFRINGE) available for data analysis, as well as intensive hands-on experience with members of the Spitzer Instrument Support and Science User Support Teams. Due to the level of personal interaction to be offered, registration for this workshop is limited to about 25 participants, on a first-come, first-served basis. Strong preference will be given to those investigators who already have data in-hand for their Spitzer programs.
The workshop is arranged as follows:
Since this is our first data analysis workshop, although we are endeavoring to cover quite a bit of ground, some items of interest are not yet mature enough for presentation or discussion in a data workshop. This will come in future workshops. This includes MIPS Total Power (TP) mode, MIPS SED mode, and IRS reduction of extended sources.
Principal Investigators (PIs) are not required to attend; Co-Investigators, postdocs, or students directly affiliated with the PI's Spitzer program may attend instead. Program ID numbers (pids) are required information on the registration pages, and we will obtain from the PI verification of a registrant's affiliation to the program. Because we anticipate heavy demand for these workshops, one person per program, please!
We anticipate this workshop to be the first of several such workshops run by the SSC. If you are unable to attend this workshop, there will be future opportunities. We will continue to inform approved investigators of future data analysis workshops.
In order to run SSC software during the hands-on portion of this workshop, you need access to something that can run the software. Spitzer software has been designed first for Solaris machines. This design decision was made well before the surge in Mac ownership! Linux development and testing often lags the Solaris development and testing. We are working towards having Linux versions of the software packages MOPEX and SPICE available by the time of the workshop.
Because of this limitation, DO NOT NECESSARILY EXPECT TO LEAVE THIS WORKSHOP WITH DATA READY FOR PUBLICATION.
See the Post-BCD website for information on the platforms where the software you want to use has been tested. If you have a laptop running one of those versions of Linux, perfect! If you have a system at home running one of those versions of Solaris or Linux, you can attempt to work using your laptop over the network.
If you wish to run SSC software during the hands-on portion, prior to the workshop, load onto your system (either your laptop or your home system) both the data analysis tools software, available from the Post-BCD website, and your Spitzer data, available from the data archive via Leopard.
IDL 6.0 has a new Path Cache feature that is supposed to dramatically speed up searches for procedures in an IDL project. Unfortunately, SMART with its dynamic path changes, is not compatible with this, so you need to disable the Path Cache in order for it to work. You can disable this new feature in a couple of ways, but the way that one user did it was to insert the line
setenv IDL_PATH_CACHE_DISABLE
in the SMART script file, just under the first row of ######.
We plan to post the presentations for the workshop here in advance, so that participants can preview them. (At minimum, the presentations will be posted here during the workshop.)
Registration is open to all up to the capacity, subject to the requirements discussed above. There is no fee associated with this workshop.
Registration for the workshop represents a commitment to attend. Your admittance probably means that someone else has been denied entry so that you can attend. If you need to cancel, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can admit another person. When registering, indicate on the form which days you intend to be present, if less than the full week.
Preference will be given to GO-1 observers who register by noon Pacific time on Monday, Feb 14 (note right after Spitzer GO2 deadline!). After that deadline, spaces requested by other approved Spitzer investigators (even those requested prior to Feb 14) will fill in the order they were received and verified by the SSC, up until Feb 18th. Your registration request will be acknowledged upon receipt, pending verification of affiliation with an approved Spitzer program. No later than Feb 15, confirmation of your registration (or encouragement to sign up for a future workshop) will be sent in a separate email. If the workshop is oversubscribed by Feb 14th, all remaining verified registration requests will be placed on a waiting list in the order they were received, so spaces can be filled in the event of cancellations. We will notify you as soon as possible if a space opens up.
We look forward to your participation.
This workshop, from Spring 2005, is entirely over and done with. Looking for a more recent workshop? Try the main SSC workshops page to look for a more recent workshop. We (so far) have held two per year, one in the Spring and one in the late Summer.
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