The IPTA Student Workshop schedule is still preliminary and is still being decided. However, it expected to have a focus on an introduction to pulsar data reduction and software. Expected topics that will be covered are:
- General introduction to pulsars and some useful tools
- Introduction to Linux, python, ipython notebooks, and some other useful software tools
- Initial pulsar data reduction and examination sing tools such as PRESTO, DSPSR, and PSRCHIVE
- Focused session on PSRCHIVE
- PSRCHIVE python interface
- Pulsar timing
- tempo2
- libstempo
- Correcting for the solar system ephemeris
- Effects of the ISM
- Pulsar noise and noise modeling
- Gravitational wave astrophysics
- Gravitational wave detection