Astrophysics in the LOFAR era
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14:00 |
M. Garrett, M. van Haarlem |
Welcome |
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Session: LOFAR
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14:10 |
C. Vogt |
Long and short baseline
LOFAR |
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14:45 |
A. Gunst |
LOFAR Station Processing |
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15:15 |
G. de Bruyn |
CS-1 commissioning and
LOFAR Calibration |
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15:40 |
W. Reich |
First Light in Effelsberg |
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Coffee Break
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16:30 |
J. Bregman |
Data Processing in the
LOFAR era |
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16:50 |
G. de Bruyn |
EOR Key Science Project
Plans |
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17:10 |
H. Röttgering |
Survey Key Science Project
Plans |
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17:30 |
R. Wijers |
Transients Key Science
Project Plans |
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17:50 |
H. Falcke |
Cosmic Ray Key Science
Project Plans |
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18:10 |
J. Otieno Malo |
Kenya International Radio
Observatory |
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19:00 |
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Dinner
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20:30 |
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Reception
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Session Pulsar
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9:00 |
A. Lyne |
Finding, observing and
understanding RRATs |
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9:25 |
B. Stappers |
Pulsars at Low Frequencies |
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9:45 |
J. Gil |
Drifting subpulse phenomenon in pulsars |
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10:10 |
O. Ulyanov |
Subpulse structure of pulsar radio emission in the
decametre range |
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Session: Magnetic
Fields, AGN
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10:30 |
W. Reich |
Galactic research with
LOFAR |
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Coffee Break
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11:25 |
K. Ferriere |
Galactic Magnetic Fields |
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11:50 |
L. Ferretti |
Extragalactic Magnetic
Fields |
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12:15 |
R. Beck
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Observation of weak
magnetic fields around galaxies with LOFAR |
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12:40 |
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Lunch Break |
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Session: Cluster |
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14:00 |
M. Arnaud |
Clusters and the X-ray
connection |
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14:25 |
M. Murgia |
Dying radio galaxies with
LOFAR |
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14:45 |
R. Dunn |
Radio Bubbles in Clusters:
Relativistic Particle content |
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15:05 |
M. Wise |
Tracing AGN Heating in
Clusters with Low Frequency Radio Observation |
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15:25 |
R. Cassano |
Statistics of Radio Halos
and Future Low Frequency Observations |
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Coffee Break
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16:15 |
D. Dallacasa |
Perspectives in the low
frequency study of diffuse cluster radio sources |
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16:35 |
R. Pizzo |
The diffuse extended
emission and the first polarimetric results at low
frequency for Abell 2255 |
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16:55 |
F. Govoni |
Polarization of cluster
radio sources with LOFAR |
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17:15 |
G. Brunetti |
Constraining cosmic rays in
Galaxy Clusters |
PDF |
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17:35 |
J. Croston |
Constraining the energy
budget of radio galaxies with LOFAR |
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18:30 |
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Football Match
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19:30 |
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Dinner |
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Session: Stellar Sources &
Transients |
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9 :00 |
T. Montmerle |
Magnetic fields in young
stars and accretion disks: the X-ray perspective |
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9:30 |
J. Eislöffel |
Investigating the launching
mechanism of young stellar jets with LOFAR |
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9:50 |
S. Corbel |
Jets in XRBs |
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10:20 |
C. Kaiser |
Radio lobes of microquasars |
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Coffee Break
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11:10 |
S. Markoff |
LOFAR constraints on weakly
accreting black hole jets |
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11:30 |
J. Miller-Jones |
Low-frequency radio
observations of Galactic X-ray binary systems |
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11:50 |
C. Brocksopp |
A Highly Polarised Jet in
XTE J1748-288 |
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12:10 |
S. Roy |
New Results in Radio
emission from the Transient Bursting Source GCRT 1745-3009 |
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12:30 |
J. Grießmeier |
The search for radio
emission from extrasolar planets with LOFAR |
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Lunch Break
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14:00 |
C. Maccone |
Innovative SETI by the KLT |
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14:30 |
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Excursion to LOFAR site
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E-LOFAR discussion
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17:00 |
M. van Haarlem |
Internationalisation of
LOFAR |
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17:10 |
R. Beck |
German LOFAR |
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17:20 |
R. Fender |
UK LOFAR |
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17:30 |
M. Tagger |
French LOFAR |
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17:40 |
G. Brunetti |
Italian LOFAR |
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17:50 |
K. Otmianowska-Mazur |
Polish LOFAR |
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18:00 |
J. Conway |
Swedish LOFAR |
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18:10 |
A. Konovalenko |
UkraineLOFAR |
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Chair: H. Falcke |
Discussion
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20:00 |
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Banquet
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Session: EOR
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9:00 |
A. Ferrara |
The Epoch of Reionisation |
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9:25 |
S. Zaroubi |
The Epoch of Reionisation with LOFAR |
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9:50 |
R. Thomas |
Reionisation Simulation for LOFAR |
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10:10 |
G. Mellema |
Simulating the redshifted 21cm signal from Reionisation |
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10:30 |
V. Jelic |
Foregrounds Simulation for
the LOFAR EOR Experiment |
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Coffee Break |
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11:20 |
B. Ciardi |
21cm views of the high-z
universe |
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11:40 |
X. Chen |
21cm signature of first
stars |
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12:00 |
P. Labropoulos |
Extracting the EOR signal
from LOFAR data |
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12:20 |
A. Meiksin |
The Wouthuysen-Field
mechanism revisited |
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Lunch Break
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Session: Surveys
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13:40 |
T. Jones |
Astrophysical Particle
Acceleration |
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14:10 |
T. Garn |
610 MHz radio surveys using
the GMRT |
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14:30 |
V. Shepelyev |
Extragalactic Radio Sources
at Low Frequencies |
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14:50 |
M. Sydorchuk |
Decametric continuum investigations at UTR-2 |
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15:10 |
I. Prandoni |
Modelling the sub-mJy radio sky: Implications for LOFAR and SKA |
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15:30 |
O. Wucknitz |
Finding gravitational
lenses with LOFAR |
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Coffee Break
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16:20 |
M. Garrett |
E-LOFAR & Cluster Lensing - a peek
at the high-z radio Universe |
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16:40 |
N. Jackson |
After CLASS: LOFAR and
future lens surveys |
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17:00 |
P. Papaderos |
New insights into dwarf
galaxy evolution with LOFAR |
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17:20 |
S. Stepkin |
Extremely low frequency
radio spectroscopy of the interstellar medium as important instrument of
studies of the tenuous and partially ionised objects |
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17:40 |
D. Mukha |
Observations of carbon
radio recombination lines near Galactic plane at decametre wavelengths |
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19:00 |
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BBQ & Bowling
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Session: Solar System |
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| 9:00 |
G. Mann |
Monitoring the Solar Activity
by LOFAR |
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| 9:25 |
L. Klein |
Solar radio physics with LOFAR
– constraints and perspectives |
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| 9:45 |
V. Mel’nik |
Sporadic radio emission of
the Sun at frequencies 10-30 MHz |
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| 10:05 |
J. Khan |
The Glasgow and UK interest
in Solar physics with LOFAR |
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| 10:25 |
I. Falkovich |
The investigations of the
outer heliosphere with the large antenna arrays
of the low-frequency URAN interferometer |
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| 10:45 |
R. Fallows |
Interplanetary Scintellation Using LOFAR: Long Baseline Heliospheric Tomography |
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Coffee
Break |
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| 11:35 |
O. Scholten |
The NuMoon
Project of UHE Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays off the Moon |
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| 12:00 |
A. Horneffer |
Air Shower Measurements with
LOFAR |
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| 12:25 |
S. Buitink |
Amplified radio pulses from
cosmic ray air showers in thunderstorms |
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Lunch
Break |
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End
of Conference |
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