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Programme
For the programme of the LOFAR Science Workshop is also available (without link) as pdf.
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Workshop Begins |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
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Registration |
09:00 - 09:05 |
R. Vermeulen |
Welcome address |
09:05 - 09:10 |
M. Wise |
Workshop overview |
Session I: Surveys and Techniques (Chair - H. Röttgering) |
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09:10 - 09:30 |
MSSS: Overview and Update |
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09:30 - 09:50 |
Correcting the Ionospheric effect |
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09:50 - 10:10 |
Identifying calibrators for International LOFAR observations |
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10:10 - 10:30 |
Discovery of Carbon Radio Recombination Lines in M82 |
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10:30 - 10:50 |
Coffee break |
Session I: Surveys and Techniques (cont.) |
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10:50 - 11:10 |
LOFAR High Band observations of the Coma cluster |
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11:10 - 11:30 |
Radio archaeology with LOFAR: relics and AGN deep time |
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11:30 - 11:50 |
Radio galaxy physics with LOFAR |
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11:50 - 12:10 |
The Lockman Hole Project: a Multi-frequency Study of the Faint Radio Population down to 60 MHz |
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12:10 - 12:30 |
Searching for the first generation of black holes in Boötes |
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12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch break |
Session II: Transients (Chair - R. Fender) |
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13:30 - 13:50 |
LOFAR high-band observations of the microquasars SS 433 and GRS 1915+105 |
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13:50 - 14:10 |
A Short Duration Transient Candidate At The North Celestial Pole |
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14:10 - 14:30 |
Training the TraP: Finding optimal transient search thresholds using observations and simulations |
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14:30 - 14:50 |
FRATs: Commensal Real-Time Searches for Fast Radio Transients |
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14:50 - 15:10 |
Searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence with LOFAR |
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15:10 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
Session III: Pulsars (Chair - J. Hessels) |
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15:30 - 15:50 |
The LOFAR Tied-Array All Sky Survey |
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15:50 - 16:10 |
Scintillation and scattering both: studying the interstellar medium with LOFAR |
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16:10 - 16:30 |
PSR B0943+10 at the very low radio frequencies |
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16:30 - 16:50 |
Millisecond pulsars at low frequencies with LOFAR |
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16:50 - 17:10 |
A plethora of emission characteristics from PSR B0823+26 |
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17:10 - 17:30 |
Pulsar Profile Evolution at Low Frequency with LOFAR |
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17:30 |
Day 1 of Workshop Concludes |
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19:30 - 22:00 |
Workshop Dinner at Restaurant Pakhuis de Zwijger |
Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Workshop Begins |
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08:30 - 09:00 |
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Registration |
Session IV: Extending LOFAR (Chair - M. Wise) |
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09:00 - 09:10 |
The project NenuFAR |
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09:10 - 09:20 |
The POLFAR collaboration |
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09:20 - 09:30 |
Status update on the I-LOFAR initiative |
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Session V: Solar and Space Weather (Chair - M. Wise) |
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09:30 - 09:50 |
Tracking an electron beam through the corona with LOFAR |
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09:50 - 10:10 |
Imaging Low Frequency Type III Solar Radio Bursts with LOFAR |
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10:10 - 10:30 |
Probing the Ionosphere with Broadband Low-Frequency Observations of Ionospheric Scintillation |
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10:30 - 10:50 |
KAIRA Riometry: using LOFAR technology to study the aurorae |
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10:50 - 11:10 |
Coffee break + KAIRA Video Presentation |
Session VI: Cosmic Rays (Chair - H. Falcke) |
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11:10 - 11:30 |
Measuring air showers of cosmic rays at LOFAR |
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11:30 - 11:50 |
The shape of the radio wavefront of cosmic ray air showers as measured with LOFAR |
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11:50 - 12:10 |
Cosmic-ray mass composition from radio measurements |
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12:10 - 12:30 |
Effects of atmospheric electric fields on radio emission from air showers |
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12:30 - 13:30 |
Lunch break |
Session VII: Magnetism (Chair - G. Heald) |
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13:30 - 13:50 |
Observing nearby galaxies at low frequencies - first results from the LOFAR MKSP |
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13:50 - 14:10 |
Results from observations of M51 and NGC891 |
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14:10 - 14:30 |
Subarcsecond imaging of M82 with LOFAR |
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14:30 - 14:50 |
Studying Galactic interstellar turbulence through fluctuations in synchrotron emission with LOFAR |
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14:50 - 15:10 |
Low-Frequency Pulsar Polarisation with LOFAR |
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15:10 - 15:30 |
Coffee break |
Session IX: Epoch of Reionization (Chair - G. de Bruyn) |
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15:30 - 15:50 |
S. Zaroubi |
Upper limit on the Epoch of Reionization from LOFAR |
15:50 - 16:10 |
High Dynamic Range Imaging of the EoR-3C196 Field with LOFAR |
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16:10 - 16:30 |
LOFAR Ultra Deep Imaging |
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16:30 - 16:50 |
Galactic polarized emission detected in the LOFAR-EoR observing windows |
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16:50 - 17:10 |
The LOfar COsmic-dawn Search (LOCOS): Chasing the lunar shadow |
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17:10 - 17:30 |
Extracting Ionospheric Statistics from EoR Data |
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Workshop Conclusion |
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17:30 - 18:00 |
Workshop Summary |
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18:00 - 18:10 |
M. Wise |
Workshop Conclusion |
18:10 |
Day 2 of Workshop Concludes |
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Poster Presentations |
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S. Daiboo |
Tomography of the ionosphere at LOFAR |
I. Iliev |
Observability of the Epoch of Reionization: What do large-scale simulations tell us? |
