X-ray Astronomy School 2005
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X-ray Astronomy School 2005
FIGURE 33:Antonella Fruscione presenting ``An Introduction to Active Galactic Nuclei in the X-rays’’
FIGURE 34: Students during hands-on session.
FIGURE 35: Keith Arnaud and Randall Smith working at their computers.
AGNs and clusters of galaxies.
48 students attended the school. Morning sessions were devoted to classes and lectures, while the afternoons were hands-on sessions with the computer to work with real data. The students were given several projects to work on during the week of school and they gave a short presentation at the Student’s Seminar on the final day of the school. This was the first time that hands-on sessions were held during the X-ray school and it was a great success.
The students were very attentive and participated with great interest in the entire program. They attended the lectures, asked plenty of questions and as was clear from their final presentations,
worked hard on their projects and improved their understanding of X-ray data analysis. Many thanks to the instructors who worked on their lectures, the administration and computer groups for their support before and during the school, and to the computer specialists for their tremendous help at the hands-on sessions.
The school web page contains the details of the program and posts lectures on-line:
http://xrayschool.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xrayschool/index.html.
email: xrayschool@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov
Aneta Siemiginowska
FIGURE 36: Maxim Markevitch during a discussion with the students. Kip Kuntz in the back helping students with their project.
FIGURE 37: Traditional reading of “Copenhagen”, the play by Michael Frayn.
FIGURE 38: A group photo on the final day of the school in front of Phillips Auditorium.
