Spectroscopy school programme
| Tuesday 17th March 2009 | ||
| 08:30 | Registration | |
| 09:00 | Welcome and introduction | Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (UCL/MSSL) |
| 09:10 | Atomic processes in plasmas | Ehud Behar (NASA/GSFC) |
| 10:10 | Basics of spectroscopy | Frits Paerels (Columbia) |
| 11:10 | Coffee | |
| 11:40 | Spectroscopic techniques | Frank Verbunt (Utrecht) |
| 12:40 | Statistics: Velocity profiles | Andy Pollock (ESAC) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Introduction to SPEX | Elisa Costantini (SRON) |
| 14:45 | Exercises 1: Basics of SPEX, stellar spectra | |
| 15:45 | Tea | |
| 16:15 | Exercises 1 (continued): Basics of SPEX, stellar spectra | |
| 17:00 | Advanced SPEX models: DEM, NEI etc. | Jelle Kaastra (SRON) |
| 17:45 | End of the day's activities | |
| 18:00 | Reception - drinks and nibbles (complimentary) | |
| 20:00 | Closing for the day | |
| Wednesday 18th March 2009 | ||
| 09:00 | Exercises 2: Clusters, stars and supernovae | |
| 10:45 | Coffee | |
| 11:15 | Plasma codes | Randall Smith (SAO) |
| 12:15 | SPEX absorption models | Katrien Steenbrugge (Oxford) |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Exercises 3: AGN | |
| 15:45 | Tea | |
| 16:15 | Current and future spectrometers | Frits Paerels (Columbia) |
| 17:00 | Closing remarks | Graziella Branduardi-Raymont (UCL-MSSL) |
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