Proposed topics for talks. The ones that are already chosen have a name attached to them.

Submillimetre telescopes and sites

• Site testing and selection / Envall
• Antennas (technology, structure, surface requirements/setting/measurements, ...) / Kettunen
• Current developments: APEX
• Current developments: ALMA / Hovatta

Receivers

• Single-channel bolometers
• Bolometer arrays / Envall
• Heterodyne instruments / Lemmetyinen
• Receiver technology developments: mixers, LOs, ...

Observing techniques

• Special challenges and requirements (submm-technology challenges, telescope performance, atmospheric effects, ...)
• Calibration procedures (detecting a weak signal, stability requirements, getting rid of the atmosphere, focusing, pointing, absolute flux calibration...) / Torniainen
• Observing methods (multichannel/single pixel, continuum/spectral line, point source/extended...)
• Data reduction ("from an observation into a data point") / Hovatta
• Other: case studies, e.g. SCUBA

Science goals for submillimetre arrays and single dish telescopes

• High-z Universe / Lemmetyinen
• Quasar absorption systems
• Active Galactic Nuclei / Suomela
• Normal (z=1-2) galaxies
• The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect / Torniainen
• Protostars / star forming regions
• Individual objects, e.g. Magellanic clouds, Galactic Centre, Centaurus A, ...

Millimetre-VLBI: promises and challenges

• Millimetre-VLBI: recent developments, future plans / Kettunen
• Science for millimetre-VLBI / Suomela
• Millimetre Space VLBI: Fact or fiction?

Päivitetty: 2005-01-18 / mtt.

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