2006: 10th Summer Synthesis Imaging Workshop Evaluation

Please tell us about your background. Check one:

Registered
Late registration
Grazer

Check one:
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Undergraduate
Faculty

Graduate student/prequalifer
(taking classes, not working on thesis yet)
Research faculty or observatory astronomer

Graduate student/postqualifer
(spending most time on research)
Engineer/programmer

First postdoc
Other (write below)

Second or + postdoc


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I have never done any radio astronomy
I have previously attended an NRAO summer school

I have started working with radio data
I have taken a class in radio astronomy

I have completed a project with radio data
I am an expert in another wavelength (write below)

I am an expert in radio astronomy


Your feedback is important to help us improve future Workshops on synthesis imaging. Please provide a ranking to the following questions using the numbers 1-10, with 1 indicating the lowest score and 10 the highest.


 Question
 Ranking
1a.
 Overall quality of the lectures covering the fundamentals (Tuesday June 13)
1b.
 Were these lectures comprehensible? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)
1c.
Were these lectures well organized? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)
1d.
Were the questions/answer sessions useful? (1=no, 10=yes)
1e.
 Were the breakout sessions at the end of the day useful? (1=no, 10=yes)
2a.
 Overall quality of the lectures covering more advanced topics (Wednesday-Tuesday)
2b.
 Were these lectures comprehensible? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)
2c.
 Were these lectures well organized? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)

Please check a column for each of the lectures
Speakers
 Title
 Too
technical
 Perfect
 Too simple
 Don't
remember
 Did not
attend
Rick Perley Fundamentals of Radio Interferometry




Peter Napier Antennas in Radio Astronomy




Walter Brisken Cross Correlators




George Moellenbrock Calibration and Editing




Rick Perley Polarization in Interferometry




Sanjay Bhatnagar Imaging and Deconvolution




Bob Zavala Sensitivity




Michael Rupen Self-Calibration




Claire Chandler Spectral Line Observing I




Speakers
 Title
 Too
technical
 Perfect
 Too simple
 Don't
remember
 Did not
attend
Lynn Matthews Spectral Line Observing II




Ylva Pihlstrom Very Long Baseline Interferometry




Ed Fomalont Error Recognition and Image Analysis




Rick Perley Wide Field Imaging I: Non-coplanar arrays




Debra Shepherd Wide Field Imaging II: Mosaicing




Crystal Brogan Millimeter Interferometry and ALMA




Craig Walker High Dynamic Range Imaging




Sudhakar Prasad Noise in Interferometry




Greg Taylor Non-Imaging Data Analysis




Bryan Butler Interferometry of Solar System Objects




Tracy Clarke Low Frequency Interferometry




Michael Rupen EVLA




Aaron Cohen Array Design





Speakers Title Worthwhile
 Not worthwhile
 Fun
 Don't
remember		 Did not
attend
Cornelia Lang Galactic radio science




Trish Henning
University of New Mexico





Greg Taylor The Long Wavelength Array




Michelle Creech-Eakman New Mexico Tech and MRO




Jim Ulvestad Extragalactic Science







Name the three best lectures:
3.
  Title or Speaker
 Why was this the best?  (continue on 4th page)                                                                             
i.







ii.







iii.







What was the worst lecture?
4.
 Title
 Why was this the worst?














ranking
 Did not
attend
5.
 How useful was the data reduction tutorial? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)

Comments:


7.
 How informative was the VLA tour on Saturday?

8.
How do you rate the overall organization of the Workshop? (1=terrible; 10=excellent)

9.
What did you like most about the Workshop?





10.
 What improvements could we make in future summer schools?




10a
 What did you want to learn that we didn't cover?

10b
 Did you get enough time to talk with the lecturers?
 Yes
 No
11.
How would you rate your accommodations?


If you stayed in the dorms, did you feel it was a good value for your money?
 Yes
 No

If you stayed in the dorms, would you do it again?
 Yes
 No
If you did not stay in the dorms, where did you stay?
12.
 For late registrants/serious grazers only: Was it worth attending, even if you could not attend the VLA tour and Data Tutorial?
 Yes,
I would come again
 No, I would
not come again

13. We try to balance passive learning (lectures) with active learning (hands on, question sessions, tutorials). How did we do? Circle one.
I want more lectures

balance is about right

desperately need more hands-on learning
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Please return this evaluation to the box at the end of the Workshop. If you take it home, please mail it to

Kristy Dyer
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, 87131

or FAX to

505-277-1520