Seminar language

The seminar language will be English if there will be students with no knowledge of Finnish attending the seminar.

The seminar homepage in Finnish can be found here.

Introduction

The seminar topics cover the recent development and challenges of radio astronomy. Some of the topics will be:

• New interferometers: improved sensitivity and resolution.
• Millimetre-VLBI: challenges and promises.
• Space-VLBI: when the World Is Not Enough.
• SETI: intelligent search for intelligence.
• Future of ground-based radio astronomy: the quest for silence.
• To the Moon, above and beyond!

During the first lecture there will be a short introduction to the various topics of the seminar. Each student will get to choose his/her topics for talks and a seminar paper. The students may also suggest topics not included in the list provided by the lecturers.

Teachers

Docent Merja Tornikoski
HUT/Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Kirkkonummi, tel. 09-2564423,
E-mail: (removed)
Before and after lectures: HUT/Dpt. of Electrical Engineering, room C126, tel. 09-4514788.

Dr. Anne Lähteenmäki
HUT/Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Kirkkonummi, tel. 09-2564425,
E-mail: (removed)
Before and after lectures: HUT/Dpt. of Electrical Engineering, room C126, tel. 09-4514788.

Requirements

Each student will give two talks and write one seminar paper (ca. 10-15 pages) about the topics of one of them. Each student is required to be present at more than 50% of the seminars

The current schedule can be found here.

Course material

No actual course material will be provided. The students will be given a collection of web links and references for publications to begin with, and we encourage a scientific approach instead of mere cut&paste collection of web page information. The teachers will be happy to give more detailed instructions and assist in pursuing scientific material, if needed.

A list of possible topics.

The instruction for writing the seminar paper, along with a short introduction to the on-line astronomical papers, can be found here (currently only in Finnish, will be given in English as well if needed).

Merja Tornikoski's own web page of astronomical links, including radio astronomy, astronomical data and journals, etc. Note: the access to the electronical editions of many of the on-line astronomical journals is restricted; contact the lecturers to get a ps/pdf copy of such articles!

Latest update: 2001-01-23 / mtt.