Tuesday 21 May


8:55 - 9:00 Welcome by René Vermeulen

SURVEYS AND METHODS (chair: Stijn Buitink)

9:00 - 9:30 Shimwell, Tim ASTRON

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey

9:30 - 10:00 Williams, Wendy Leiden University

The LoTSS optical/IR identifications

10:00 - 10:15 Tasse, Cyril Observatoire de Paris

Improvements of LoTSS calibration and imaging for DR2 and application to LoTSS-deep fields

10:15 - 10:30 de Gasperin, Francesco Hamburg University

The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: first thermal noise limited images

COFFEE

SURVEYS AND METHODS cont'd (chair: Antonia Rowlinson)

11:00 - 11:30 Kuiack, Mark University of Amsterdam

The seconds timescale radio sky with AARTFAAC

11:30 - 12:00 O'Sullivan, Shane Hamburg University

A LOFAR Faraday Rotation Measure Grid for studying Cosmic Magnetic Fields

12:00 - 12:15 Mooney, Sean University College Dublin

Blazars in the LOFAR Surveys Data

12:15 - 12:30 Creaner, Oisin Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies

BeamModelTester: a calibration testing tool for LOFAR

LUNCH

PULSARS AND ISM (chair: Cathy Horellou)

13:30 - 14:00 Bondonneau, Louis LPC2E Orleans

Low frequency pulsar observations with NenuFAR

14:00 - 14:15 Bak Nielsen, Ann-Sofie MPIfR/Bielefeld University

IISM studies with low-frequency pulsar observations

14:15 - 14:30 Rozko, Karolina Univ of Zielona Gora

The importance of low frequency observations for the understanding of the GPS pulsars spectra

14:30 - 14:45 Sobey, Charlotte CSIRO

Faraday rotation measures towards pulsars using LOFAR: probing the 3-D Galactic halo magnetic field

14:45 - 15:00 Arias, Maria University of Amsterdam

Supernova Remnants with LOFAR

15:00 - 15:15 Jelic, Vibor Ruder Boskovic Institute

Magnetically aligned straight depolarisation canals

COFFEE

EARTH (chair: Emanuela Orrú)

15:45 - 16:15 Hare, Brian University of Groningen

Lightning Leaders Imaged with Meter-Scale resolution

PLANETS AND STARS

16:15 - 16:45 Vedantham, Harish ASTRON

Low frequency radio emission from stars and planets

16:45 - 17:00 Callingham, Joseph ASTRON

Stellar systems at low frequencies: Radio stars and exoplanets

17:00 - 17:15 Feeney-Johansson, Anton Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies

A new method to measure magnetic fields in jets from young stars using LOFAR

17:15 - 17:30 Griessmeier, Jean-Mathias LPC2E Orleans

The search for exoplanetary radio emission: Jupiter as an exoplanet


19:00 - 22:00 Conference dinner at Grand Café de Burcht


 

Wednesday 22 May

THE EXTRAGALACTIC UNIVERSE (chair: Marijke Haverkorn)

9:00 - 9:30 Mertens, Florent University of Groningen

Observing the Epoch of Reionization with LOFAR

9:30 - 9:45 Schwarz, Dominik Bielefeld University

The angular two-point correlation of LoTSS radio sources

9:45 - 10:00 Best, Philip University of Edinburgh

The LOFAR Deep Survey Fields

10:00 - 10:30 Marcus Brüggen (for Annalisa Bonafede) Hamburg University

Galaxy clusters at low frequencies + movie

COFFEE

THE EXTRAGALACTIC UNIVERSE cont'd (chair: Diana Morosan)

11:00 - 11:15 Cuciti, Virginia Hamburg University

Ultra-low frequency follow-up of the galaxy cluster Zwcl0634.1+4750

11:15 - 11:30 Di Gennaro, Gabriella Leiden University

Exploring particle (re-)acceleration in merging galaxy clusters

11:30 - 11:45 Gourdji, Kelly University of Amsterdam

LOFAR observations of gravitational wave merger events and GRBs

11:45 - 12:00 Stacey, Hannah University of Groningen

Gravitationally-lensed star formation and AGN activity at low radio frequencies

12:00 - 12:15 Chyzy, Krzysztof Jagiellonian University

Magnetisation of the Universe - the case of the irregular galaxy NGC4449

12:15 - 12:30 Seethapuram Sridhar, Sarrvesh ASTRON

Magnetizing the universe with dwarf galaxies: A new low-frequency radio continuum perspective

12:30 - 12:45 Heesen, Volker Hamburg University

The LOFAR radio continuum view on galactic winds

LUNCH

SUN (chair: Hanna Rothkaehl)

13:45 - 14:15 Morosan, Diana University of Helsinki

Imaging Radio Shock Signatures of Solar Coronal Mass Ejections with LOFAR

14:15 - 14:30 Tiburzi, Caterina ASTRON

Pulsars track the Solar wind

14:30 - 14:45 Maguire, Ciara Dublin Inst. for Advanced Studies

Insights into Coronal Mass Ejection: Shocks with the Irish Low Frequency Array (I-LOFAR)

14:45 - 15:00 Ryan, Aoife Maria Trinity College Dublin

Imaging the Solar Corona during the 2015 March 20 Eclipse using LOFAR

15:00 - 15:15 Zucca, Pietro ASTRON

Interferometric and beam-formed observations of the Sun with LOFAR: Present situation and future challenges

COFFEE

(SPACE) WEATHER (chair: Marcus Brüggen)

15:45 - 16:15 Grzesiak, Marcin Space Research Center

Spatio-temporal analysis of LOFAR scintillation measurements

16:15 - 16:30 Rothkaehl, Hanna CBK PAN

Monitoring of Space Weather conditions with LOFAR station in Borowiec

16:30 - 16:45 Mevius, Maaijke ASTRON

Overview of Space Weather activities with LOFAR

COFFEE

COSMIC RAYS

16:45 - 17:15 Mulrey, Katie University of Brussels

Detecting Cosmic Rays with LOFAR

17:15 - 17:30 Corstanje, Arthur Radboud University

Xmax reconstruction and mass composition of cosmic rays with LOFAR