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Schedule:

Monday

 9:00- 9:30 Justin -- Overview of the week
 9:30-10:30 Michele -- Hogg & likelihood
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Justin/Rutger -- MCMC Introduction -- Simple Metropolis
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Exercises (write your own sampler)

Tuesday

 9:00-10:00 Scott -- Introduction pulsar timing
10:00-10:30 Rutger -- Introduction to TOA analysis - part 1  (marginalize over timing model)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Justin -- TOA analysis - part 2 (Prior modeling, rank-reduction, etc.)
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Exercises (Simple MDC-like dataset analysis)

Wednesday

 9:00-10:00 Steve -- Continuous wave signal
10:00-10:30 Rutger -- GW bursts (with/without memory)
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Justin -- Sampling the signals
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Exercises

Thursday

 9:00-10:00 Chiara -- Stochastic background SMBHB
10:00-10:30 Steve -- Anisotropic extension
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:00 Rutger -- Search for signal model (correlations) and sampling
12:00-13:20 Lunch
13:30-17:00 Exercises -- Do the MDC (and optimal statistic)

Friday

 9:00-10:00 Introduction on how the codes work (use notebook)
10:00-10:30 (NX01 / Piccard example)
10:30-17:00