PIRE summer school
A summer school on "Multiwavelength views of the high redshift universe" will be held from 17-20 March 2008 at the South African Astronomical Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa.
The school is jointly funded from South African sources and through an NSF PIRE (Partnerships in International Research and Education) grant and is part of a series of summer schools organised by the Southern Cosmology Survey collaboration focussing on key questions in observational cosmology.
The South African summer school will focus on theory and observations of high redshift sources at optical/IR, radio and submillimeter wavelengths and relevant observational facilities.
Participants will include students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty from South Africa, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Japan and the US.
Following the summer school we are planning a 1-day workshop to discuss CMB power spectrum estimation and SZ cluster extraction in light of point source contamination in microwave maps. The 1-day workshop will be held at the SAAO on Friday 21 March 2008.