The Radio Universe @ Ger’s (wave)-length




4-7 November 2013

Groningen, the Netherlands

Conference Programme

Conference Venue: "Blauwe Zaal", Building 5412, Zernike Campus, University of Groningen, Groningen

 

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Last update: 05 November 2013

 

 

Sunday
17:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception and Registration
at Prinsenhof Grand Cafe, Martinikerkhof 23, Groningen.
 
Monday
Registration
9:00 - 10:30 Registration with Coffee/Tea
Welcome
10:30 - 10:40 10 Welcome by Michael Garrett (ASTRON) and Thijs van der Hulst (Kapteyn, RuG)
1. Low Frequency Sky Surveys Chair:
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.) Chair:
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 Chair:
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   Coffee / tea
2. AGNs and transients (cont.) Chair:
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
 
Tuesday
3. Galactic and extragalactic radio emission Chair:
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 Coffee / tea
3. Galactic and extragalactic radio emission (cont.) Chair:
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 Chair:
14:20 - 14:40 15+5 Ilse van Bemmel Mid-frequency aperture arrays: the future of radio astronomy
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
15:20 - 15:40 15+5 Yvette Cendes A Modified RFI Flagger for Transient Radio Signals
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee / tea
4. Foundations of Radio Astronomy (cont.) Chair:
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.
 
Wednesday
4. Foundation of Radio Astronomy (Cont.) Chair:
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 Coffee / tea
4. Foundation of Radio Astronomy (Cont.) Chair:
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
Conference Dinner at "De Plaats Melkema".
Meeting point for busses in front of Martini-Tower at 18:30
 
Thursday
5. Intensity mapping of The Epoch of Reionization Chair:
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 Coffee / tea
5. Intensity mapping of The Epoch of Reionization (cont.) Chair:
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.) Chair:
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 Chair:
15:00 - 15:30 25+5 Richard Schilizzi The Square Kilometre Array
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee / tea
16:00 - 17:00 45+15 Ger de Bruyn The Radio Universe @ Ger’s (wave)-length