Report on the Second Asian Radio Astronomy School 2008 Tomoya Hirota (Mizusawa-VERA, NAOJ) 1

 Vivien Chen (NTHU)  Yoshiaki Hagiwara (NAOJ)  Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ)  Daisuke Iono (NAOJ)  Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ)  Patrick Koch (ASIAA)  Chin-Fei Lee (ASIAA)  Sheng-Yuan Liu (ASIAA; Chair)  Kohichiro Morita (NAOJ)  Shigehisa Takakuwa (ASIAA)

 EA-VLBI, SMA, ALMA, VSOP-2, SKA  Most of them are international collaboration.  It is important, in particular, for young generations  to expand communities of users in Asia.  to share knowledge with each other.  to activate communications in Asia.  Well-disciplined education program is needed  We have organized Schools on radio astronomy. 3

 Summer schools (SS) on radio astronomy and/or interferometry have been held in each countries  Japan: since 2000, every year (Interferometry SS)  Korea: 2003 and 2005 (KVN SS)  Taiwan: 2006 (held in the summer student program)  The First Asian Radio Astronomy School  Japan: January 2007, at NAOJ, Tokyo  The Second Asian Radio Astronomy School  August 2008, in Taipei, Taiwan, hosted by ASIAA 4

 Date : 2008 Aug  Venue : Academia Sinica and NTU (IAA), Taipei  Schedule : 3 days for lectures 0.5 days for laboratory tour 0.5*3 days for laboratory exercise  Budget : All of local costs (meals, tea, banquet, accommodation, transportation) were supported by ASIAA!  NAOJ supported airfares for Japanese participants. 5

 In total 87 registered participants  Country (Affiliation)  Taiwan: 46  Korea: 20  Japan: 15  China: 4  Other: 2  Most of participants were grad. students  Physics: 7  Astronomy: 42  Other: 6 (according to questionnaire) 6

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 Tatsuhiko Hasegawa (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy – History  Naomi Hirano (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy - Fundamentals and Observables  Sawada-Satoh Satoko (Yamaguchi U.): Radio Telescopes and Interferometers in the world  Paul Ho (ASIAA): Radio Astronomy Science  Ming-Tang Chen (ASIAA): Antennas and Front-End (Receivers)  Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ), Seiji Kameno (Kagoshima U.) Back-End (Correlators and Spectrometers)  Ryohei Kawabe (NAOJ), Seiji Kameno (Kagoshima U.) Fundamentals of Interferometry  Yoshiaki Hagiwara (NAOJ), Nagayoshi Ohashi (ASIAA), Jiun-Huei Wu (NTU): Telescope in Asia  Yu-Nung Su (ASIAA), Sheng-Yuan Liu (ASIAA) Data Reduction  Seiji Kamano (Kagoshima U.) Sensitivity and Noises  Ramprasad Rao (ASIAA): Polarization  Koh-Ichiro Morita (NAOJ): Advanced Imaging Techniques  Chin-Fei Lee (ASIAA): Maps to Science  Tomoya Hirota (NAOJ), Tatsuhiko Hasegawa (ASIAA): Proposal Writing and Observation Planning 8

9  Two venue  Aug.18-19: NTU(right)  Aug.20-22: AS(bottom)

 VLBI: 34 students  DA193 (VLBA 15 GHz)  AIPS and DIFMAP  SMA: 50 students  HH212 (345 GHz)  MIR and Miriad  1 laptop PC for 2 students  Tutors mainly from ASIAA (SMA) and NAOJ, Yamaguchi-U, and Kagoshima-U. (VLBI) 10

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14 Remote demonstration of SMA and AMiBA from Taipei

 Main motivation for attending the school?  to learn radio astronomy and interferometry 33  data reduction: 14  data rejection: 1  VLBI: 5  study new field: 5  meet friends: 4  radio telescopes/antennas: 1  enjoy good meals: 1  practice English: 1  future career needs: 1 15

 Whether the school has met your expectation?  Yes: 50  No: 3  Partly: 2  Would you recommend the school to your colleagues?  Yes: 54  No: 1  How often do you consider this school should be held?  Once per year: 33  Twice per year: 14  Once every two years: 12 16

 I have proposed to hold the School in every 2 years.  It is important to collaborate with VLBI and ALMA group.  Discussion in EACOA is necessary.  March at Taiwan  Japan, Taiwan, and... next? 17