Programme 3rd LOFAR Science Meeting

 

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Tuesday 5 April 2016
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08:00-08:55 Registration
08:55-09:00 Rene Vermeulen Welcome SOC, LOC

Session 1 — Surveys, Chair: Raffaella Morganti

09:00-09:30 Timothy Shimwell - The LOFAR HBA Tier-1 Survey
09:30-09:45 Jess Broderick - An update on MSSS
09:45-10:00 Francesco de Gasperin - The LOFAR LBA sky survey: problems and solutions
10:00-10:15 Andreas Horneffer - First Results from prefactor and Factor
10:15-10:30 Cameron Van Eck - Faraday Tomography with LOFAR

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee

 

Session 2 — Pulsars, Chair: Antonia Rowlinson

11:00-11:30 Sotiris Sanidas - The LOTAAS survey for pulsars and transients: Progress update and new discoveries
11:30-11:45 Samayra Straal - A quest for missing pulsars
11:45-12:00 Vlad Kondratiev - Radio spectra of millisecond pulsars
12:00-12:15 Caterina Tiburzi - Pulsar science with single stations in Germany
12:15-12:30 Nataliya Porayko - Investigation of turbulent structure of ISM with radio observations of pulsars

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

 

Session 3 — Radio Galaxies and Deep Fields, Chair: Timothy Shimwell

13:30-13:45 Isabella Prandoni - An update of the Lockman Hole Project
13:45-14:00 Raffaella Morganti - Dying and restarted AGN in the LOFAR sky
14:00-14:15 Emanuela Orru - Giant Radio Galaxies with LOFAR
14:15-14:30 Alex Clarke - LOFAR observations of a newly identified 2.6 Mpc Giant Radio Galaxy
14:30-14:45 Gabriela Calistro Rivera - Low Frequency Radio Window to star-forming galaxies at intermediate redshift
14:45-15:00 Aayush Saxena - Predicting number of high-redshift radio galaxies in the epoch of reionisation

 

15:00-15:30 Coffee

 

Session 4 — Cosmic Rays, Chair: Marijke Haverkorn

15:30-16:00 Olaf Scholten - High energy Cosmic-rays at LOFAR
16:00-16:15 Stijn Buitink- Cosmic-ray mass composition around 1017 eV
16:15-16:30 Laura Rossetto - A study of radio frequency spectrum emitted by high energy air showers with LOFAR
16:30-16:45 Arthur Corstanje - The atmospheric refractive index and its influence on radio measurements of cosmic rays
16:45-17:00 Gia Trinh - Circular polarization of radio emission from air showers in thunderstorm conditions
17:00-17:15 Tobias Winchen - Search for Cosmic Particles with the Moon
17:15-17:30 Derek McKay - Optical-riometric comparisons of high-energy auroral electron precipitation

 

19:30 Conference Dinner @ Strandpaviljoen Thalassa


 

 

 

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Wednesday 6 April 2016
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Session 5 — Interstellar Medium, Chair: Matthias Hoeft

09:00-09:30 Raymond Oonk - Observing the cold interstellar medium with LOFAR
09:30-09:45 Pedro Salas - Low frequency radio recombination lines in the Galactic plane with LOFAR
09:45-10:00 Carmen Toribio - Radio-Recombination Lines in M82
10:00-10:15 Kimberly Emig - Carbon radio recombination lines in extragalactic sources
10:15-10:30 Colm Coughlan - T Tau at 150 MHz — The first YSO detection with LOFAR

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee

 

Session 6 — Pulsars, Chair: Jason Hessels

11:00-11:15 Chia Min Tan - Using Machine Learning to Search for Pulsars with LOFAR
11:15-11:30 Daniele Michilli - Emission and rotation evolution of pulsar PSR B2217+47
11:30-11:45 Klim Mikhailov - Sensitivity estimates of the LOFAR search for radio pulsars and transients in
M33, M81, M82
11:45-12:00 Ziggy Pleunis - LOFAR survey for millisecond pulsars in Fermi gamma-ray sources
12:00-12:15 Antonia Rowlinson - LOFAR's role in searching for EM counterparts to compact binary mergers
detected by ALIGO
12:15-12:30 Sander ter Veen - Using Effelsberg to trigger LOFAR to localise fast radio transients

 

12:30-13:30 Lunch

 

Session 7 — Clusters and AGN, Chair: Isabella Prandoni

13:30-13:45 Alexander Drabent - Investigating diffuse radio emission with LOFAR: The complex merging
galaxy cluster Abell 2069
13:45-14:00 Georgi Kokotanekov - AGN Feedback Clusters in MSSS
14:00-14:15 Blazej Nikiel- Wroczyński - Run silent, run deep: increasing the fidelity of the Stephan's Quintet field
14:15-14:30 Eskil Varenius - Sub-arcsecond imaging of nearby galaxies using international LOFAR baselines
14:30-14:45 Leah Morabito - High Resolution Studies of 4C +43.15 with LOFAR Long Baselines
14:45-15:00 Javier Moldon - The low-frequency compact structure of the radio outflow of 4C 55.16

 

15:00-15:30 Coffee

 

Session 8 — Transients, Near and Far, Chair: Michael Wise

15:30-15:45 Ger de Bruyn - EoR Progress: VLBI and the flanking fields
15:45-16:00 Maaijke Mevius - Imaging ionospheric structures
16:00-16:15 Richard Fallows - Disentangling Ionospheric and Interplanetary Scintillation
16:15-16:30 Christian Vocks - LOFAR observations of the quiet solar corona
16:30-16:45 Peeyush Prasad - The quest to bring AARTFAAC online
16:45-17:00 Yvette Cendes - The First Transient Survey with AARTFAAC

 

17:00-17:25 Michael Garrett - Closing Remarks

 

17:25-17:30 Michael Wise / Close SOC, LOC