ANGLES school at Santander

The first ANGLES school was held in Santander December 10 to 14, 2004. The theme was lens modelling and the Hubble constant. The school was followed by a workshop on Gravitationally Lensed Quasars organized by the University of Cantabriagroup.

It was attended by the Marie Curie early stage trainees Ardis Eliasdotter, Alicia Berciano Alba, Szymon Kozlowski, Ana Mosquera, plus other students from ANGLES institutes, Rupal Mittal, Janine Heinmueller, Ruben Rodriguez, Neus Puchades, Juan Gonzalez-Cadelo. Unfortunately three non-EU students could not attend because of delays in getting visas.

The lectures presented duting the ANGLES workshop:

• Andy Biggs: Radio flux density monitoring: a practical guide
• Ian Browne: What is ANGLES?
• Ian Browne: A rough Guide to Radio Astronomy and its use in Lensing Studies.
• Chris Fassnact: An Overview of Time Delays and Hubble's Constant from Lensing
• Luis Goicoechea: Optical Monitoring
• Leon Koopmans: Hubble's Constant from Everything but Lensing
• Leon Koopmans: Optical Constraints in Gravitational lensing
• Richard Porcas: Getting the Input Data for Mass Models
• Joachim Wambsganss: Microlensing: Here and There
• Olaf Wucknitz: Shear Effects in Microlensing of Large Sources
• Olaf Wucknitz: LensClean and the Optimal Use of Observational Constraints.

Some digital memories of the school and workshop are being provided by Richard Porcas and Szymon Kozlowski.