This page is dedicated to give you informations about the tutorial instructions in advance of the tutorial. A number of software should be installed in advance.
Note that only the Linux and MacOSX platformed are supported.

How to get a temporary IDL license:

The EXELIS VIS company will provide you a temporary IDL license for free, if you follow the following instructions:
- First step: Registration. Please, fill the form with updated and correct information. Then, you should receive an email from WebAdmin@exelisvis.com with your login/password.
- Second step: Once you get your login/password, please download and install the IDL software.
- Last step: Send an email request to have an IDL temporary license to Mr. Ahmed Belaidi : with the subject : “IDL license for Summer school – Cargese May 2012”, and mentioning which is your OS (MacOSX, Linux, …). After approval, you should receive your IDL license, so you can check that all of the installation process is correct on your laptop.

How to install the Astronomical Librairies:
The Astronomical Libraries can be downloaded here. Then untar the file and copy all astron/pro/*.pro files into $IDL_DIR/lib

Tutorial 1: Wavelets, sparse representations and denoising
Organizers: Sandrine Pires (CEA Saclay)
This course will be organized as a series of practical courses in IDL.
Participants are encouraged to have their own laptop, with IDL installed (with the astronomical librairies) as described above.
Then you should download the following files (here) containing the routines that will be used during the tutorial.

Tutorial 2: iCosmo: an interactive cosmology package
Organizers: Anaïs Rassat (EPFL Lausanne)
CANCELLED

Tutorial 3: Inverse Problems (deconvolution) and Compressed Sensing
Organizers: Florent Sureau (CEA Saclay)
This course will be organized as a series of practical works under IDL. Participants are encouraged to have their own laptop, with IDL (7.0 or higher) installed (with the astronomical librairies).
Then you should download the following files (DECONV and CS) containing the routines that will be used during the tutorial and the solutions of the tutorial.

Tutorial 4: Morphological Component Analysis to perform image decomposition and inpainting
Organizers: Sandrine Pires (CEA Saclay)
This course will be organized as a series of practical courses in IDL.
Participants are encouraged to have their own laptop, with IDL installed (with the astronomical librairies) as described above.
Then you should download the following files (here) containing the routines that will be used during the tutorial.

Tutorial 5: Astroinformatics - The New Paradigm of Astronomy in the Epoch of Petabyte-Scaled Archives
Organizers: Petr Skoda (Astronomical Institute Ondrejov, Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
The participants should install Oracle (former Sun) Java runtime and Java web start system on their computers. The tutorial will be demonstrated on notebook with 32-bit Linux Debian - Lenny. All the VO stuff demonstrated is written in Java.
The VO tutorial will be mostly focused on usage of several most popular VO packages and their interoperability based on SAMP protocol. Despite the Webstart possibility the participants should have downloaded and tested the stand-alone versions of TOPCAT , the Aladin sky atlas, the VOSpec spectra analysis tool and finally the SPLAT-VO, the latest beta-version (should be checked again before tutorial). In case of troubles the last official release is sufficient for most of work as well. In case of troubles with installations of VO software please contact their authors not the lecturer.

Tutorial 6: Data Processing on the sphere with applications to Astrophysics
Organizers: Florent Sureau (CEA Saclay)
This course will be organized as a series of practical works under IDL. Participants are encouraged to have their own laptop, with IDL (7.0 or higher) installed, as well as the Healpix and ISAP packages.
If you encounter any problem in the installation follow the following detailed instructions.
The solutions of the tutorial are available (here).

Tutorial 7: Reflex: Scientific workflows for the ESO pipelines with a focus on UVES and XSHOOTER
Organizers: Dan Bramich & Wolfram Freudling (ESO)
In preparation for the tutorial session, please download and install Reflex and the UVES and XSHOOTER pipelines and demo data using the install script linked in the following Table.
Note that the installation can take a reasonable amount of time and we recommend to do this before the tutorial starts. The install script itself is stored Here.
The release notes and installation instructions (including software preprequisites) are here.
Please also download a copy of both the UVES and XSHOOTER tutorials:
More information on reflex itself may be found Here.
Any problems with installation and the like, please feel free to contact: usd-help@eso.org

Tutorial 8: Blind source separation methods: application in cosmology
Organizers: Jérôme Bobin (CEA Saclay)
This course will be organized as practical works under IDL. Participants are encouraged to have their own laptops with IDL.
Then you should download the following files (here) containing the routines that will be used during the tutorial.