VLBI and AGN conferences from American Society of the Pacific

http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes

1994 : 59 - Astronomy with Millimeter and Submillimeter Wave Interferometry, IAU Colloquium 140

1995 : 82 - Very Long Baseline Interferometry and the VLBA

http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?book_id=194

1998 : 144 - Radio Emission from Galactic and Extragalactic Compact Sources, IAU Colloquium 164

2003 : 290 - Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy

2003 : 300 - Radio Astronomy at the Fringe

2005 : 340 - Future Directions in High Resolution Astronomy: The 10th Anniversary of the VLBA

http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?book_id=51

Extragalactic Jets: Theory and Observation from Radio to Gamma Ray

2007 : 373 - The Central Engine of Active Galactic Nuclei

particle astrophysics article archive

http://particle-astro.blogspot.com/

Astronomy Summer Schools of Interest

Gamma Ray

http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/mtgs/summerschool/2012/


X-ray Astronomy

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xrayschool/
http://cxc.harvard.edu/xrayschool/index.html






Black holes http://www.black-hole.eu/

Chandra http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/

Radio

NRAO- https://science.nrao.edu/opportunities/courses

Synthesis imaging will be in 2014

mm, single dish http://www.iram-institute.org/EN/content-page-265-7-67-265-0-0.html - OPEN TIL JUNE 15


Radio Interferometry

CARMA- http://carma.astro.umd.edu/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
-inteferometry

Synthesis Imaging- http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/synthesis/2010/






Other

Astroinformatics- http://hipacc.ucsc.edu/ISSAC2012.html

Astrostatitistics, Europe - http://great.ast.cam.ac.uk/Greatwiki/GreatItn/AstroStats2013

Astrostatistics, Penn State - http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/su12/

LSST, Radio, NRAO- https://science.nrao.edu/science/event/RALSST2013

large, unorganized list of lots of meetings: https://asaip.psu.edu/meetings/all-meetings

Multi-wavelength astronomy -http://www.black-hole.eu/index.php/schools-workshops-and-conferences/1st-school-on-multiwavelength-astronomy

to use: c++ numerical recipes, python pdb debugger, c++

http://www.amazon.com/C-Dummies-Stephen-R-Davis/dp/0470317264

http://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html

http://www.nr.com/

5-22 notes on diffmap

For some blazar sources, there are extended features that need to be taken care of in order to move forward with the fit (features that aren't necessarily in the image on the Blazar website). Refer to the MOJAVE website to look for these.

Sometimes, to get larger features, use uv taper (this de weights some of the longer/shorter baselines to give you a lower resolution in order to bring out some of the larger scale features). Clean tends to break up larger scale features, so that they can appear choppy. If you use UV taper, they will appear as a single bright source. Refer to the diffmap manual every couple image processings (to catch things you haven't caught before and refresh memory).

AIPS and Difmap resources

official website- ftp://ftp.astro.caltech.edu/pub/difmap/difmap.html

Brandeis tutorial- http://brandeisastro.pbworks.com/w/page/14977088/Difmap%20Tutorial

walkthrough with AIPs and DIfmap - http://veraserver.mtk.nao.ac.jp/VERA/kurayama/WinterSchool/TableOfContents.htm

Diffmap and AIPS tutorials
http://www.vsop.isas.jaxa.jp/survey/

maybe useful
http://atcaforum.atnf.csiro.au/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=108

Faculty- Postdoc App Assignment

Faculty Positions

http://jobregister.aas.org/
http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Rumor+Mill+Faculty-Staff


Postdoc positions

http://www.astrobetter.com/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Rumor+Mill+Faculty-Staff
NASA postdocs https://www3.orau.gov/npdoc/catalog



Astro Depts, Groups of Interest

http://www.astro.umd.edu/
-X-ray astronomy
-Goddard

http://www.astro.washington.edu/
-In Seattle





http://ice.as.arizona.edu/Extreme_Astrophysics_Group/Extreme_Astrophysics_Group_%40_UofA.html
-In west coast


http://www.phys.psu.edu/research/pa/ penn state particle astrophysics
-West coast, particle physics group to collaborate with

http://www.physics.sfsu.edu/
-West Coast

University of Alabama in Huntsville (high-energy astrophysics) (ad)
-high energy astro, near Marshall


Canada


http://www.phas.ubc.ca/
http://www.uvic.ca/science/physics/research/research/astronomy/index.php



Physics Depts

https://recruit.ucdavis.edu/



My aimed for skill-set:

High Energy Astro- Quasars, AGN, Black Holes, Blazars, Jets, Plasmas
Observations - VLBI, DCT, X-ray Spectroscopy, Gamma Ray
Computation - large scale spectral simulations, Jet Radiative Transfer
Theory - Particle Physics, GR, MHD


Comments on Job search:

Seems to be a lot of interest in theory and instrumentation

grad school guide, with LOR thank you example

http://gradschool.about.com/


http://gradschool.about.com/cs/askingforletters/a/thank.htm

Radio Interferometry resources

Synthesis Imaging Workshops

http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/events/synthesis/2010/  -2010, with lectures
http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/table_of_contents/?book_id=292 -1999, with articles

difmap

ftp://ftp.astro.caltech.edu/pub/difmap/difmap.html

AIPS

http://www.aips.nrao.edu/index.shtml

Extra-galactic astronomy

http://books.google.com/books/about/Galactic_and_extragalactic_radio_astrono.html?id=WwIbAQAAIAAJ

NERQUAM

Nerquam-


AGN of all types were discussed at NERQUAM. From NERQUAM, I took away that I need to read more articles and I need to practice good presentation skills. I need to be building up my research repertoire quickly.