Programme

Monday 14 November 2022

Venue: SAAO Auditorium

 8:45 – 9:15

Arrival & registration (Tea/coffee)

 9:20 – 9:30

Welcome

 9:30 – 10:00

Overview of SALT

Encarni Romero Colmenero

 10:00 – 10:30

Instrumentation news

Lisa Crause

 10:30 – 11:00

Tea/Coffee break

 11:00 – 11:30

Software Tools overview

Christian Hettlage

 11:30 – 12:00

Slitmask IFU update

Sabyasachi Chattopadhyay (via Zoom)

 12:00 – 12:30

Lab & workshop tour

Kathryn Rosie, Craig Sass

 12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

 13:30 -14:00

Primary pipeline

Enrico Kotze

 14:00-14:30

RSS longslit data reduction

Alexei Kniazev

Auditorium

SAAO Boardroom

 14:30 – 15:00

Break-away discussions on topics proposed by attendees

Break-away discussions on topics proposed by attendees

 15:00 – 15:30

Tea/Coffee break

 15:30 – 16:15

PIPT/proposal tools

Practical (Christian Hettlage)

Polarimetry calibrations

(Ken Nordsieck)

 16:15 – 17:00

Topics proposed by attendees

Polarimetry practical

(Ken Nordsieck, Danièl Groenewald)

 17:00

SAAO Site tour (led by Christian Hettlage)

 18:00

Workshop braai at SAAO

Tuesday 15 November

 9:30 – 10:00

Data archive

Nhlavu Macebele

 10:00 – 10:30

HRS (MIDAS) pipeline

Alexei Kniazev

10:30 – 11:00

Simulator tools demo

Solohery Randriamampandry

11:00-11:30

Tea/Coffee break

11:30 – 12:00

Photometry of Solar System bodies (moving targets)

Anja Genade

12:00 – 12:45

Tips & tricks

Encarni & Christian

12:45 – 14:00

Lunch

Auditorium

SAAO Boardroom

 14:00 – 14:45

Topics proposed by attendees

RSS MOS Mask design

Ros Skelton, Matt Hilton

 14:45 – 15:15

Tea/coffee

 15:15 – 16:10

Proposal submission practical followup

Christian Hettlage, SAs

RSS MOS data reduction

Matt Hilton

 16:15 – 16:45

NIR update

Marsha Wolf (via Zoom)

 16:45 – 17:00

Thanks and closing