Lecture 1: ULTRACAM- High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) - what is it and why study it?- The detection of light - an introduction to CCDs- Instrumentation...

Lecture 2: ULTRASPEC- An introduction to EMCCDs- Instrumentation for high-speed spectroscopy: ULTRASPEC on the ESO 3.6m and NTT- Instrumentation for high-speed...

Lecture 3: HiPERCAM- How can we improve ULTRACAM and what would this enable us to do?- Eliminating atmospheric scintillation noise: Conjugate-plane photometry-...

Lecture 4: ULTRACAM data reduction pipeline- Demonstration of how to reduce photometric data using the ULTRACAM pipeline software.

Lecture 1: - Timescales across the HR diagram - Key (optical) properties of compact objects - Compact binary systems & accretion variability

Lecture 2: - Oscillations, pulsations and seismology - Transits and Eclipses

Lecture 3 & 4: - Reconstruction methods - Fast photometry - Lightcurve modeling demo

Lecture 3 & 4: - Reconstruction methods - Fast photometry - Lightcurve modeling demo

Lectures 5 & 6: - Multi-wavelength aspects - Fast spectroscopy - Spectroscopy analysis demo