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Who are you as an organization?
The Canadian Centre for Experimental Radio Astronomy is an association comprising individuals from various walks of life, all of whom share a passion for radio astronomy.
What do you do differently or uniquely well?
"This camp is a unique opportunity for participants to gain access to data from a large scientific instrument. Learning opportunities on both the technological and scientific fronts abound."
Who are your staff and counsellors?
"Participants will learn directly from a team of scientific and technical experts. The lead instructors will be CCERA President Marcus Leech, who is a well-known expert in radio astronomy and software defined radio, and Daniel Marlow, who is a CCERA member and a Professor of Physics at Princeton University.
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What do families need to know about registration?
"Interested parties should contact [email protected] to enroll in the camp and/or to obtain further information."
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2336 Craig Side Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Is Radio Astronomy Camp technology free? Participants will be expected to write Python programs using their personal laptops.
Daniel Marlow, Evans Crawford 1911 Professor of Physics
Ph.D. in Physics
Although my professional research is in the area of experimental particle physics (the Large Hadron Collider at CERN), I have a longstanding interest in radio and radio astronomy. I was therefore delighted to be included as a member of the CCERA and to participate in the restoration of the 12.8 m radio telescope to operation. It has been a special pleasure to work with the CCERA team, which has an incredible breadth and depth of knowledge regarding both the technical and scientific aspects of radio astronomy.
Much of the material for the camp is based on a course on 21-cm radio astronomy that I developed for Princeton students. As the late John Wheeler famously said, "If you want to learn, teach." Personally, I find that no matter how many times I have taught a subject, someone always manages to ask a question that leads me to think about the material in new ways. I thus very much look forward to the camp.
Sincerely,
Dan Marlow
Camp Director
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