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SFXC VLBI Software Correlator Workshop</h1>
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September 22/23, 2025</div>
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<p style="font-style: italic;">Apologies if you receive this announcement multiple times - and feel free to forward it to anyone who you believe might be interested.</p>
<p>This workshop is aimed at individuals interested in using the Super FX Correlator ("SFXC") for software correlation of data from their own VLBI instruments (or other long-ish baseline radio interferometers), as well as scientists who want to exploit SFXC's
advanced features by doing their own correlation.</p>
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Workshop Overview</h2>
<p>The workshop will take place over two days, mixing theory and practical hands-on sessions at JIVE's host institute ASTRON in Dwingeloo, The Netherlands. There will also be room for discussion about future developments of SFXC (including GPU-based correlation)
and suggestions for improving the SFXC documentation.</p>
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Limited Participation</h2>
<p>The number of participants is limited to twenty (20) to enable a useful teacher-to-student ratio for the practical sessions. If we receive more than 20 registrations by the registration deadline of May 25th 2025, we will select participants based on the
survey in the registration form (see link at the bottom of this page).</p>
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<div style="margin: 0px;">Selected participants will receive confirmation before June 6th 2025. Please hold off making travel arrangements until your participation has been confirmed!</div>
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Course Content</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom: 15px;">Lectures will be delivered by the SFXC developers, JIVE's in-house experts, and external users already using SFXC for their own data processing. Topics will include:</p>
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<li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Correlator models</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Correlation preparation</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Mixed-bandwidth correlation</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Geodetic correlation</li></ul>
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<li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Real-time correlation</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Post-processing of correlator output</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Using SFXC for space science</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Using SFXC for FRB localization</li></ul>
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Prerequisites</h2>
<p>We expect each participant to:</p>
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<li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Bring a laptop with an ssh client installed</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Have experience with radio interferometry</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Be familiar with a UNIX/Linux shell command-line environment</li><li style="margin: 5px 0px;">Have programming experience in Python</li></ul>
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Practical Information</h2>
<p>The workshop is offered free of charge, but no travel, lodging, sustenance, or other form of financial support will be available. A block booking of hotel rooms at the nearby<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.hoteldeborken.nl/en/" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210); text-decoration: none;">Hotel
de Borken</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>has been made and bicycles will be provided to commute between the hotel and ASTRON's premises.</p>
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Code of Conduct</h2>
<p>JIVE and ASTRON are dedicated to providing an inclusive and safe environment for everyone: employees and visitors; therefore this workshop is covered by the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.jive.eu/dwingeloo-code-of-conduct" style="color: rgb(25, 118, 210); text-decoration: none;">Dwingeloo
code of conduct</a>.</p>
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