Program

Below is the programme and the presentations given at the workshop.

 

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Tuesday 13 September:
18:30 - 19:30 Welcome reception (Grand café)
18:00 - 20:00 Registration (Grand café)

Day 1: Wednesday September 14

08:30 - 09:00: Registration (reception area Holland zaal/congress hall)
09:00 - 09:05: Rene Vermeulen -- Welcome Address (5 min)
09:05 - 09:15: Michael Wise -- Workshop Introduction (10 min)

Session 1: ILT Status and Planning

09:15 - 09:35: Rene Vermeulen -- ILT Organization and Access (15+5 min) [PDF].

09:35 - 09:55: Antonis Polatidis -- Operational Status (15+5 min) [PDF]
09:55 - 10:15: Michael Wise -- Science Capabilities and Planning (15+5 min) [PDF]
10:15 - 10:30: Discussion (15 min)

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

Session 2: First Results on Pulsars

11:00 - 11:20: Jason Hessels -- Status of LOFAR Pulsar Observing Modes and Pipelines (15+5 mins) [PDF]
11:20 - 11:40: Tom Hassall -- Ultra-Wideband Observations of Pulsars and the Evolution of Pulse-Profile Morphology (15+5 mins) [PDF]
11:40 - 12:00: Vlad Kondratiev -- Low-Frequency Anomalously Intensive Pulses and the Pulsar Emission Mechanism (15+5 mins) [PDF]
12:00 - 12:20: Thijs Coenen -- Pilot Pulsar/Fast Transient Surveys with LOFAR (15+5 mins) [PDF]
12:20 - 12:40: Charlotte Sobey -- Polarized pulsars: observations and applications (15+5) [PDF]

12:40 - 13:40: Lunch Break

Session 3: Calibration and Imaging Capabilities

13:40 - 14:00: Ger de Bruyn -- LOFAR Calibration Status (15+5 mins) [PDF]
14:00 - 14:20: Cyril Tasse -- The LOFAR Imager (15+5 mins) [PDF]
14:20 - 14:40: Andreas Horneffer -- Steps and Milestones Towards Polarization Observations with LOFAR (15+5 mins) [PDF]
14:40 - 15:00: Olaf Wucknitz -- High Resolution Observations with LOFAR (15+5)
15:00 - 15:20: George Heald -- MSSS: Status and First Test Results (15+5 mins) [PDF]
15:20 - 15:40: Discussion (20 min)

15:40 - 16:15: Coffee Break

Session 4: First Results on Galaxies

16:15 - 16:35: John McKean -- Cygnus A (15+5 mins) [PDF]
16:35 - 16:55: David Mulcahy -- First Observations of Nearby Galaxies with LOFAR HBA - M51 & NGC4631 (15+5 mins) [PDF]
16:55 - 17:15: Emanuela Orru -- LOFAR detection of extended polarized emission: Giant Radio Galaxies & Milky Way (15+5 mins) [PDF]

17:15 - 17:45: Drinks
18:00 - 19:00: Soccer match (subject to having enough players!)
19:30 - 22:00: Workshop Dinner

Day 2: Thursday, September 15, 2011

Session 5: First Results on Transients, Planets, and the Sun

09:00 - 09:20: Evert Rol -- First Results from the TRIP and TRAP Pipelines [PDF]
09:20 - 09:40: Jess Broderick -- SS433 + Bell Transients (15+5 mins) [PDF]
09:40 - 10:00: Julien Girard -- First LOFAR Planetary Observations (15+5 mins) [PDF]
10:00 - 10:20: Christian Vocks -- First Results of Solar Imaging (15+5 mins) [PDF]
10:20 - 10:40: Richard Fallows -- The Dynamic Spectrum of Interplanetary Scintillation Measurements [PDF]

10:40 - 11:15: Coffee Break

Session 6: First Results on Clusters

11:15 - 11:35: Roberto Pizzo -- Abell 2255 at Low Frequencies (15+5 mins) [PDF]
11:35 - 11:55: Reinout van Weeren -- LBA observations of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 2256 (15+5 mins) [PDF]
11:55 - 12:15: Annalisa Bonafede -- Lessons from Coma cluster Observations (15+5 mins) [PDF]
12:15 - 12:35: Francesco de Gasperin -- Virgo A (15+5 mins) [PDF]

12:35 - 13:40: Lunch Break

Session 7: First results on EOR Fields

13:40 - 14:00: Panos Labropoulos -- Deep Imaging with LOFAR (15+5 mins) [PDF]
14:00 - 14:20: Vibor Jelic -- The Elais N1 field and EoR Foregrounds (15+5 mins) [PDF]
14:20 - 14:40: Sarod Yatawatta -- Deep Imaging with Sagecal Calibration (15+5 mins) [PDF]

Session 8: First Results on Cosmic Ray and Particle Detection

14:40 - 15:00: Maaijke Mevius -- Neutrino Detection with LOFAR (15+5 mins) [PDF]

15:00 - 15:30: Coffee Break

15:30 - 15:50: Pim Schellart -- Imaging TBB Data (15+5 mins) [PDF]
15:50 - 16:10: Satyendra Thoudam -- The LOFAR Air Shower Array (15+5 mins) [PDF]
16:10 - 16:30: Sander ter Veen -- Detection of Air Showers with LOFAR (15+5 min) [PDF]

16:30 - 17:00: Workshop Summary (Heino Falcke) [PDF]

Workshop ends

 

 

Contributed posters

- Anastasia Alexov: ‘Status of LOFAR Time Series Data in HDF5 Format’

- J.Girard, P. Zarka, D. Charrier, L. Denis, A. Konovalenko, M. Tagger, C. Tasse: ‘Antenna design and distribution for a LOFAR super station in Nançay’

- G. Guglielmino, I. Prandoni, R. Morganti: ‘WSRT and LOFAR observations of the Lockman Hole’

- Aleksandar Shulevski: ‘LOFAR and the AGN life-cycles’

- John Swinbank: ‘The LOFAR Transients Pipeline System’