Sunday |
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Monday |
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9:00 - 10:30 |
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Registration with Coffee/Tea |
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10:30 - 10:40 |
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Welcome by Michael Garrett (ASTRON) and Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn, RuG) |
1. Low Frequency Sky Surveys |
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10:40 - 11:10 |
25+5 |
Huub Rottgering |
Radio surveys of the extra galactic sky |
11:10 - 11:35 |
20+5 |
George Heald |
The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS): Status and Results |
11:35 - 12:05 |
25+5 |
Jayaram Chengalur |
Absorption Studies of High Redshift Galaxies |
12:05 - 12:30 |
20+5 |
Ravi Subrahmanyan |
The Cosmic Radio Background |
Lunch Break |
1. Low Frequency Sky Surveys (cont.) |
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13:30 - 13:50 |
15+5 |
Natasha Hurley-Walker |
GLEAM: The GaLactic and Extragalactic MWA Survey |
13:50 - 14:20 |
25+5 |
Thijs van der Hulst |
HI in galaxies |
2. AGNs and transients |
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14:20 - 14:50 |
25+5 |
Christopher O'Dea |
There and Back Again: Duty Cycles of Active Galactic Nuclei |
14:50 - 15:10 |
15+5 |
Raffaella Morganti |
A multifaceted study of the LH: from HI to LOFAR |
15:10 - 15:40 |
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Coffee / tea |
2. AGNs and transients (cont.) |
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15:40 - 16:00 |
15+5 |
Aleksander Shulevski |
AGN radio relics in the LOFAR sky |
16:00 - 16:30 |
25+5 |
Jean-Pierre Macquart |
Tripping the Light Fantastic with an Intra-Hour Variable Quasar |
16:30 - 16:50 |
15+5 |
Mark Walker |
Sgr A* eats G2 - implications for scintillations |
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Tuesday |
3. Galactic and extragalactic radio emission |
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9:00 - 9:20 |
15+5 |
Colin Norman |
Diffuse radio emission in clusters: Entropy, magnetic fields and ultra-high energy cosmic rays |
9:20 - 9:40 |
15+5 |
Luke Hindson |
MWA observations of cluster scale non-thermal emission: the case of A3667 |
9:40 - 10:10 |
25+5 |
Marijke Haverkorn |
The magnetic milky way, seen through rotation measure synthesis |
10:10 - 10:30 |
15+5 |
Vibor Jelic |
Galactic polarized emission detected in the LOFAR-EoR observing windows |
10:30 - 11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
3. Galactic and extragalactic radio emission (cont.) |
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11:00 - 11:20 |
15+5 |
Raymond Oonk |
Low-frequency Galactic Recombination Lines |
11:20 - 11:40 |
15+5 |
Leah Morabito |
Recombination lines studies with LOFAR |
11:40 - 12:00 |
15+5 |
Leonid Gurvits |
Space VLBI at Ger’s waves |
12:00 - 12:20 |
15+5 |
Dan Stinebring |
Pulsar interference patterns and interstellar delays |
12:20 - 12:40 |
15+5 |
Namir Kassim |
Resolved thermal absorption: Characterizing the unshocked ejecta in the young SNR Cas A |
Lunch Break |
14:00 - 14:20 |
15+5 |
Colin Lonsdale |
Solar Imaging and Space Weather using the MWA and the RAPID system |
4. Foundations of Radio Astronomy |
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14:20 - 14:40 |
15+5 |
Ilse van Bemmel |
Mid-frequency aperture arrays: the future of radio astronomy
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14:40 - 15:00 |
15+5 |
Oleg Smirnov |
Ghostbusted |
15:00 - 15:20 |
15+5 |
Folkert Huizinga |
Computational challenges of the AARTFAAC all-sky monitor
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15:20 - 15:40 |
15+5 |
Yvette Cendes |
A Modified RFI Flagger for Transient Radio Signals
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15:40 - 16:10 |
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Coffee / tea |
4. Foundations of Radio Astronomy (cont.) |
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16:10 - 16:30 |
15+5 |
Alle-Jan van der Veen |
Spatial filtering of wideband RFI at LOFAR stations |
16:30 - 16:50 |
15+5 |
Andre Offringa |
The MWA and the EoR, RFI and a new imaging algorithm. |
16:50 - 17:10 |
15+5 |
Jianfeng Zhou |
Statistical Evaluation of Various Image Deconvolution Algorithms |
18:30 - 20:30 | Conference Reception at Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5.
This reception is offered to you by the University of
Groningen, the Municipality of Groningen and the Province of Groningen. |
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Wednesday |
4. Foundation of Radio Astronomy (Cont.) |
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9:00 - 9:20 |
15+5 |
Michiel Brentjens |
RM synthesis, 9 years later |
9:20 - 09:40 |
15+5 |
Dominic Schnitzeler |
Modelling compact sources using RM synthesis |
09:40 - 10:00 |
15+5 |
Tony Willis |
Prediction and Correction of Ionospheric Rotation Measures with the ALBUS Software package |
10:00 - 10:20 |
15+5 |
Tom Oosterloo |
CHILES: The COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey |
10:20 - 11:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
4. Foundation of Radio Astronomy (Cont.) |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
25+5 |
Rick Perley |
High Dynamic Range Imaging |
11:30 - 11:50 |
15+5 |
Vishambhar Pandey |
High Dynamic Range Imaging of the 3C196 Field with LOFAR |
11:50 - 12:10 |
15+5 |
Sarod Yatawatta |
Deep Widefield Interferometry of the NCP |
12:10 - 12:30 |
15+5 |
Soobash Daiboo |
Tomography of the ionosphere with LOFAR |
Lunch Break |
Free Afternoon or trip to Vesting Bourtange
Meeting point for busses in front of the conference venue at 14:00 |
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Conference Dinner at "De Plaats Melkema".
Meeting point for busses in front of Martini-Tower at 18:30 |
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Thursday |
5. Intensity mapping of The Epoch of Reionization |
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9:00 - 9:30 |
25+5 |
Benedetta Ciardi |
The Epoch of Reionization: Theoretical Overview |
9:30 - 9:50 |
15+5 |
Elizabeth Fernandez |
Cross-correlations: Leading to a Greater Understanding of the High Redshift Universe |
9:50 - 10:10 |
15+5 |
Gianni Bernardi |
The Large-aperture Experiment to detect the Dark Ages |
10:10 - 10:40 |
25+5 |
Ue-Li Pen |
21cm intensity mapping |
10:40 - 11:10 |
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Coffee / tea |
5. Intensity mapping of The Epoch of Reionization (cont.) |
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11:10 - 11:40 |
25+5 |
Frank Briggs |
The Epoch of Reionization: Observational Overview |
11:40 - 12:00 |
15+5 |
Cathryn Trott |
Observing the Epoch of Reionization with Low-Frequency Arrays |
12:00 - 12:20 |
15+5 |
Jonathan Pober |
Recent Results on Cosmic Reionization from PAPER |
12:20 - 12:40 |
15+5 |
Harish Vedantham |
Measuring the 21-cm global signal with an interferometer |
Lunch Break |
5. Intensity mapping of The Epoch of Reionization (cont.) |
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14:00 - 14:20 |
15+5 |
Ajinkya Patil |
Constraining the epoch of reionization with variance statistic |
14:20 - 14:40 |
15+5 |
Saleem Zaroubi |
The Epoch of Reionization project: Analysis of the LOFAR EoR data |
14:40 - 15:00 |
15+5 |
Abhik Ghosh |
Epoch of Reionisation: Analysis of Maximum likelihhood inversion on NCP |
6. Future prospects |
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15:00 - 15:30 |
25+5 |
Richard Schilizzi |
The Square Kilometre Array |
15:30 - 16:00 |
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Coffee / tea |
16:00 - 17:00 |
45+15 |
Ger de Bruyn |
The Radio Universe @ Ger’s (wave)-length |
Last update: 05 November 2013