Programme for the 2015 LOFAR Magnetism KSP meeting
The Soeterbeeck Center, Ravenstein, The Netherlands, 9-12 March 2015
The latest version of the programme can be downloaded here
Abstracts for the talks can be downloaded here.
Preliminary Programme (Speakers to be confirmed):
Monday 9 March, 2015
8:00: Breakfast (room: serre 3)
10:30–12:00: Registration (room: Serre)
12:00-13:00: Lunch
13:00-13:15: Welcome address (Prof. Paul Groot, Head of Department of Astronomy, Radboud University)
13:15-13:35: MKSP status update(Rainer Beck)
13:35-14:05: LOFAR status update(Roberto Pizzo)
14:15-14:25: MSSS status update (TBC)
14:25-14:45: MSSS polarisation update(David Mulcahy)
14:45-15:05: MSSS nearby galaxies(Krzysztof Chyzy)
15:05-15:30: Discussion of LOFAR and MSSS (Led by George Heald)
15:30-16:00: Coffee/Tea break
16:00-16:30: Surveys KSP Tier 1 survey (Tim Shimwell)
16:30-17:00: Presentation Cycle 4 proposals (what is required before 11 March deadline, make splinter groups to work on proposals if required)
Progress reports of working groups
17:00-17:20: LOFAR HBA observations of IC 342 + progress report WG1: Milky Way(Cameron Van Eck)
17:20-17:40: Pulsars with LOFAR + progress report WG2: Pulsars (Aris Noutsos)
17:40-18:00: Progress report WG3: Nearby galaxies (Wojciech Jurusik, Blazej Nikiel-Wroczynski,Natalia Nowak)
18:00-18:15: Progress report WG4: giant radio galaxies (Emanuela Orru)
18:15-18:30: Progress report WG5: Intergalactic filaments (Torsten Ensslin)
19:30: Conference Dinner
Dinner - Presentation by Frank Verbunt “Megalithic Astronomy”
Tuesday 10 March, 2015
Science Talks:
09:00–09:20: The LOFAR View of NGC5033(Katharina Sendlinger)
09:20–09:40: LOFAR observations of the nearby spiral gal\ axy, M101 (Sarrvesh Sridhar)
09:40–10:00: LOFAR observations of Abell 1682 (Alex Clarke)
10:00–10:20: Investigating the cosmic-ray propagation in M51 at LOFAR Frequencies (David Mulcahy)
10:20-10:40: LOFAR observations of diffuse polarised material at high Galactic latitudes - Vibor Jelic
10:40–11:00: Precise LOFAR observations of Rotation Measures towards pulsars – Charlotte Sobey
11:00–11:30: Coffee
11:30-11:50: Observing large-scale structure of the enti\ re northern sky by using TBB data from a LOFAR single station (Jana Koehler)
11:50–12:10: Statistical methods for the analysis of rotation measure grids in large-scale structures (Valentina Vacca)
12:10–12:30: The LOFAR view of Massive Star Formation (Marta Alves)
12:30-13:50: Lunch
13:50–14:10: Experiences in LOFAR HBA processing (Marco Iacobelli)
14:10–14:30: NGC 5775 – George Heald
14:30-15:30: First half of Business meeting:
- Revision of management structure
- Revision of science goals
- Revision of working groups
- Communication within the MKSP
- Cooperation with the other KSPs
15:30-16:00: Coffee/Tea
16:00-17:00: Second half of business meeting
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion on ways to study Galactic Magnetism with LOFAR - led by Torsten Ensslin
Wednesday 11 March, 2015
09:30-13:00:
9:30–10:00: Software development: calibration and imaging – George Heald
- Commissioning progress talks (if any left)
- Discussion on commissioning computing and related topics
- Plans for Busy Days
14:00-18:00: Busy Day
Thursday 12 March, 2015
09:00-13:00: Busy Day