Programme

 

The program of the 2nd LOFAR Users Meeting is also available as PDF.

 

2nd LOFAR Users Meeting
Monday, 1 June 2015
13:00 - 13:30   Registration, coffee/tea
     

Radio Observatory contributions
13:30 - 14:00   R. F. Pizzo   LOFAR Observatory Overview and feedback from 1st LOFAR Users Meeting
14:00 - 14:15   T. J. Dijkema The Calibration and Imaging Tiger Team
14:15 - 14:30   H. Holties   LOFAR Development Roadmap
14:30 - 14:45 M. Brentjens The LOFAR Technical Working Group  
       

KSP's experience contributions
14:45 - 15:00   A. G. de Bruyn + V. Pandey EoR KSP
15:00 - 15:15   T. Shimwell   Surveys KSP
15:15 - 15:30   Y. Cendes + J. Hessels Transients KSP + LOFAR Beam-formed Modes
       
15:30 - 16:00   Coffee Break
     

KSP's experience contributions (cont.)
16:00 - 16:15   D. Jones   Magnetism KSP
16:15 - 16:30   G. Mann   Solar KSP
16:30 - 16:45   J. Rachen   Cosmic Rays KSP
16:45 - 17:00   J. Hessels   LOFAR 2.0 - a diverse list of options  
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion LOFAR 2.0
               
18:00 - 19:30   Welcoming reception

 

 

 

 

LOFAR Community Science Workshop

The program of the LOFAR Community Science Workshop is available as PDF.

The science workshop will run between 09:00 - 18:00 on 2 and 3 June.

 

Tuesday June 2
Time Slot Name Title
09:00 Opening Welcome to LOFAR Science 2015
09:10 1. Beam formed transients Chair: Joeri van Leeuwen
09:10 Sally Cooper An update on the LOTAAS Survey for Pulsars and Transients
09:30 Anna Bilous LOFAR Census of Non-Millisecond Pulsars
09:50 Jason Hessels C'est la mode: characterizing pulsar B0943+10's radio/X-ray mode-switching behavior
10:10 Charlotte Sobey High-precision Faraday rotation measures from LOFAR observations of pulsars
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Sander ter Veen Searching for pulsars in globular clusters
11:20 Yogesh Maan Discovery of fast radio transients at very low frequencies
11:40 2. Image plane transients Chair: Alexander van der Horst
11:40 Dario Carbone The LOFAR Transients Key Science Project: status and updates on image plane transients
12:00 Emilio Enriquez First observations of brown dwarfs with LOFAR
12:20 Prasad Peeyush Imaging for transient detection with AARTFAAC
12:40 Lunch
14:00 3. Solar Chair: Emanuela Orru
14:00 Gottfried Mann LOFAR observations of energetic electrons in the Sun's atmosphere
14:20 Diana Morosan LOFAR Imaging and Spectroscopy of Short-lived Solar Radio Bursts
14:40 Hamish Reid Accelerated Electrons and Solar Radio Bursts
15:00 Frank Beitling Recent developments of the Solar Imaging Pipeline
15:20 Richard Fallows Recent Musings on Ionospheric Scintillation, featuring the Quest for Phase
15:40 Coffee
16:10 4. Cosmic rays Chair: David Jones
16:10 Jorg Horandel Measurement of the particle type of cosmic rays with LOFAR
16:30 Laura Rossetto Study of the cosmic ray radio emission pattern at the ground level with LOFAR
16:50 Arthur Corstanje Radio wavefront of extensive air showers from pulse arrival timing at LOFAR
17:10 Satyendra Thoudam The cosmic-ray energy spectrum above ~ 10^16 eV measured with the LRAS Array
17:30 Gia Trinh Probing atmospheric electric fields in thunderstorms
17:50 End of Day
   
19:30–22:00 Conference Dinner - Restaurant Hotel de Jonge
   
   
Wednesday June 3
09:00 5. Imaging techniques and calibration Chair: Matthias Hoeft
09:00 Sarod Yatawatta Consensus optimization: The (only) way forward
09:20 Maaijke Mevius Probing Ionospheric Structure Using LOFAR EOR Data
09:40 Sebastain van der Tol Simultaneous measurement of ionospheric parameters using LOFAR and GNSS satellite receivers
10:00 Cyril Tasse Wirtinger-based calibration and imaging for the extragalactic surveys
10:20 Francesco de Gasperin Imaging with the LOFAR Low Band Antenna
10:40 Coffee
11:00 6. Continuum Sources Chair: Elizabeth Mahony
11:00 Tim Shimwell LOFAR surveys of the low frequency sky
11:20 Raffaella Morganti Searching for remnants of radio AGN with LOFAR
11:40 Aleksander Shulevski A low frequency look of two giant radio galaxies
12:00 Marisa Brienza The fate of radio galaxies: a LOFAR perspective
12:20 Alexander Drabent Investigating diffuse radio emission with LOFAR: The complex merging galaxy cluster Abell 2069
12:40 Lunch
13:50 7. Continuum Sources Chair: Marijke Harverkorn
13:50 Alex Clarke A1682: An Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Halo
14:10 Sarrvesh Sridhar Low frequency observation of the Pinwheel galaxy (M101)
14:30 Cameron Van Eck Faraday Tomography with LOFAR
14:50 Vibor Jelic LOFAR observations of ISM at high Galactic latitudes
15:10 Glenn White Galactic radio emission
15:30 Coffee
15:50 8. Spectral line and long baselines Chair: John McKean
15:50 Ger de Bruyn EoR update and sub-arcsecond imaging of 3C196
16:10 Adam Deller LOBOS: The Long Baseline Calibrator Survey
16:30 Javier Moldon High-resolution wideband observations of 4C19.44 with International LOFAR
16:50 Leah Morabito Spatially Resolved Studies of High Redshift Radio Galaxies with LOFAR
17:10 Pedro Salas The Cold Neutral Medium through Carbon Radio Recombination Lines
17:30 Summary Heino Falcke
17:55 Closing remarks LOC
18:00 End of Science Meeting

 

 

 

Social programme

 

Welcoming reception 1 June 18:00-19:30, De Nieuwe Kolk.
Participants are welcome to join the welcoming reception hosted by the International LOFAR Telescope. You do not need to register for this reception. The welcoming reception will be at De Nieuwe Kolk, the meeting venue for all meetings during the LOFAR Science Week 2015 in Assen. See the logistics page how to reach De Nieuwe Kolk.

 

Workshop dinner 2 April, Hotel de Jonge at 19:00.
The Science Workshop dinner will be hosted in the restaurant of Hotel de Jonge, in the centre of Assen, Brinkstraat 85, 9401 HZ Assen, 0592-312023.

 

Public transportation from Restaurant De Jonge to Hotel Van der Valk :
After the conference dinner, transport will be arranged from Restaurant De Jonge to Hotel Van der Valk.