| Science at Low Frequencies II | |
| Albuquerque, NM - Wednesday December 2 - Friday December 4, 2015 | |
| Time | Name | Title |
| 08:00 - 08:30 | Registration | |
| 08:30 - 08:40 | G.B. Taylor (UNM) | Welcome & Logistics |
| 08:40 - 08:50 | Provost Chaoki Abdallah (UNM) | Welcome from UNM |
| 08:50 - 09:00 | T. Beasley (NRAO) | Welcome from NRAO |
| Chair: Greg Taylor (UNM) | ||
| Session A: Telescope Status and Updates | ||
| 09:00 - 09:20 | Jack Burns (U Colorado) | The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) Space Mission Concept |
| 09:20 - 09:40 | Marcin Sokolowski (Curtin) | BIGHORNS status and results |
| 09:40 - 10:00 | Cathie Zheng (VUW) | The NCP region observed with 21CMA |
| 10:00 - 10:20 | Jayaram Chengalur (TIFR) | Ooty WideField Array |
| 10:20 - 10:50 | Break | |
| Chair: Tracy Clarke (NRL) | ||
| 10:50 - 11:10 | Yashwant Gupta (TIFR) | GMRT Update |
| 11:10 - 11:30 | Nipanjana Patra (UCB) | The Donald C. Backer Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER) and Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization (HERA): A status update |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Randall Wayth (ICRAR) | MWA Update |
| 11:50 - 12:10 | Emanuela Orru' (ASTRON) | LOFAR Status and Updates |
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Frank Schinzel (UNM) | ||
| 13:30 - 13:50 | Frazer Owen (NRAO) | The VLA at Low Frequencies |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Tracy Clarke (NRL) | VLA Low Band and the Commensal VLITE System: Current Status and Future Plans |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Jayce Dowell (UNM) | The Long Wavelength Array |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) | The OVRO-LWA: Status and Future Plans |
| Session B: Techniques, Calibration and new Instrumentation | ||
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Stephen Bourke (Caltech) | All-sky Calibration and Imaging with the OVRO-LWA |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Rick Perley (NRAO) | An Accurate, All-Sky, Absolute, Low Frequency Flux Density Scale |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Break | |
| Chair: Frank Schinzel (UNM) | ||
| 15:45 - 16:00 | Lincoln Greenhill (CfA/Harvard) | Dark Age Telescope (DAT) |
| 16:00 - 16:15 | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (ASU) | E-field Parallel Imaging Correlator: A Novel Imager for Next-generation Radio Telescopes |
| Session C: Solar System | ||
| 16:15 - 16:35 | Stephen White (AFRL) | Solar Physics at Low Frequencies |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | Kevin Stovall (UNM) | Solar Physics with Low Frequency Pulsar Observations |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Harish Vedantham (ASTRON/Caltech) | Lunar science at low frequencies |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Chuck Higgins (MTSU) | LWA1 Observations of Jupiter |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | John Morgan (ICRAR) | Measurements of Interplanetary Scintillation with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | Ger de Bruyn (ASTRON) | The LOFAR EoR project: challenges and progress |
| 18:20 - 20:30 | Reception | |
| Time | Name | Title |
| Chair: Melanie Johnston-Hollitt (VUW) | ||
| Session D: Imaging Surveys | ||
| 08:30 - 08:45 | Paul Hancock (Curtin) | GLEAM science from the first year of observations |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | George Heald (ASTRON) | LOFAR Imaging Surveys: MSSS and beyond |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Christopher Riseley (Jodrell/Manchester) | Wide, deep and low: a low-frequency study of the Super-CLASS super-cluster with LOFAR and the GMRT |
| 09:15 - 09:30 | Stijn Buitink (VUB) | Precision Measurements of Cosmic Rays with LOFAR |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Irene Polderman (Radboud) | Cosmic ray tomography with LOFAR |
| 09:45 - 10:00 | Cameron Lee Van Eck (Radboud) | Faraday Tomography with LOFAR |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Discussion Session D | |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Break | |
| Chair: George Heald (ASTRON) | ||
| Session E: Galaxies and Clusters | ||
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Francesco de Gasperin (Leiden) | Galaxy clusters at the lowest frequencies |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Reinout van Weeren (Harvard/SAO) | Merging Galaxy Clusters at Low Frequencies |
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Yvette Cendes (U. Amsterdam) | Tuning in the Low-Frequency Transient Radio Sky with AARTFAAC |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Aleksandar Shulevski (ASTRON) | Radiative age mapping of the B2 0924+30 relic using LOFAR |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Alex Clarke (Manchester) | Abell 1682: An ultra steep spectrum radio halo |
| 12:05 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Luigina Feretti (ORA INAF) | ||
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Joseph Callingham (U. Sydney) | A MWA Study of Gigahertz-Peaked Spectrum and Compact Steep-Spectrum Sources |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Gabriele Giovannini (Bologna U.) | Diffuse non-thermal emission in high and low thermal gas density environments |
| Session F: Milky Way | ||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Vibor Jelic (ASTRON) | Filamentary structures in LOFAR observations of the interstellar medium |
| 14:20 - 14:35 | J.B.R. Oonk | Low Frequency Recombination Lines as a Probe of the Cold Neutral Medium |
| 14:35 - 14:50 | Kimberly Emig (Leiden) | Carbon radio recombination lines in extragalactic sources with LOFAR |
| 14:50 - 15:05 | Chenoa Tremblay (Curtin) | A Search for Molecules at Low Frequency with the MWA |
| 15:05 - 15:20 | Discussion Session E/F | |
| 15:20 - 15:45 | Break | |
| Chair: Scott Ransom (NRAO) | ||
| Session G: Pulsars | ||
| 15:45 - 16:05 | Paul Demorest (NRAO) | Pulsars at Low Frequencies |
| 16:05 - 16:20 | Paul Ray (NRL) | VLITE-FAST: GPU-based real-time searches for fast transients with the VLA |
| 16:20 - 16:35 | Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON/U. Amsterdam) | Targeted pulsar searches with LOFAR |
| 16:35 - 16:50 | Daniele Michilli (U. Amsterdam) | First Batch of Pulsar Discoveries from the LOFAR High-Time-Resolution LOTAAS Survey |
| 16:50 - 17:05 | Vladislav Kondratiev (ASTRON) | LOFAR Census of Millisecond Pulsars |
| 17:05 - 17:20 | Charlotte Sobey (ASTRON) | Precise Faraday rotation measures from LOFAR pulsar observations, towards reconstructing the 3-D Galactic magnetic field |
| 17:20 - 17:35 | Jr-Wei Tsai (VT) | Observations of Giant Pulses from Pulsars using LWA1 |
| 17:35 - 17:50 | Discussion Session G | |
| Time | Name | Title |
| Chair: Namir Kassim (NRL) | ||
| Session H: Pulsars, Transients, and Variables | ||
| 08:30 - 08:50 | Sarah Burke Spolaor (NRAO) | Transients at Low Frequencies |
| 08:50 - 09:05 | Christene Lynch (U. Sydney) | Chasing Low Frequency Radio Bursts from Magnetically Active Stars |
| 09:05 - 09:20 | Marin Anderson (Caltech) | Searching Past the Confusion: Stokes V Imaging of the Transient Sky |
| 09:20 - 09:35 | Steve Croft (UC Berkeley) | Transient Searches with the Murchison Widefield Array |
| 09:35 - 09:50 | Steven Tremblay (Curtin) | Pulsars and Fast Transients with the MWA |
| 09:50 - 10:05 | Ken Obenberger (AFRL) | HF and VHF Radio Emission from Meteor Trails |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Discussion Session H | |
| 10:20 - 10:45 | Break | |
| Chair: Namir Kassim (NRL) | ||
| Session I: Ionosphere | ||
| 10:45 - 11:05 | Joe Helmboldt (NRL) | Ionospheric and Plasmaspheric Science with Low-frequency Radio Interferometers |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Ryan Monroe (Caltech) | GPS Ionospheric calibration for the LWA |
| Session J: Cosmic Dawn | ||
| 11:20 - 11:35 | Raul Monsalve (ASU) | Characterizing Cosmic Dawn with the Low-Band EDGES Instrument |
| 11:35 - 11:50 | Danny Price (CfA/Harvard) | The Large-Aperture Experiment to Detect the Dark Age: current status and future outlook |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Michael Eastwood (Caltech) | Detecting Fluctuations of the Cosmic Dawn with the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array |
| 12:05 - 12:20 | Daniel Jacobs (ASU) | An External Calibrator for Hydrogen Observatories |
| 12:20 - 13:45 | Lunch | |
| Chair: Chris Carilli (NRAO) | ||
| Session K: Epoch of Reionization | ||
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Adam Beardsley (ASU) | Murchison Widefield Array 21cm Year One Results |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Saul Aryeh Kohn (Upenn) | Polarized foregrounds for EoR measurements: lessons from PAPER-64 |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Abhik Ghosh (Kapteyn) | A Bayesian analysis of redshifted 21-cm HI signal and foregrounds: Simulations for LOFAR |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Adrian Liu (UC Berkeley) | Improved Astrophysical and Cosmological Constraints from Combined 21cm-CMB Analyses |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Jack Line (Melbourne) | The effects of positional precision in foreground subtraction |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | Peter Williams (Harvard/SAO) | Exoplanets with HERA |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Discussion Session I/J/K | |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Break | |
| Chair: Gregg Hallinan (Caltech) | ||
| Session L: Looking Ahead | ||
| 15:50 - 16:05 | Colin Lonsdale (MIT Haystack) | RAPID: A portable and reconfigurable imaging interferometer array |
| 16:05 - 16:20 | Rene Vermeulen (ASTRON) | The expanding LOFAR Telescope |
| 16:20 - 16:35 | Frank Schinzel (UNM) | The Expanded Long Wavelength Array |
| 16:35 - 17:05 | Steven Tingay (ICRAR/Curtin) | Summary and Closing Remarks / Final Discussion |
| Time | Activity |
| 09:00 | Leave Albuquerque |
| 10:00 | Arrive at Sevilleta NWR |
| 10:00 - 12:00 | Tour/Hikes LWA-Sevilleta |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch at LWA-Sevilleta |
| 14:00 | Leave Sevilleta NWR |
| 15:00 | Arrive back in Albuquerque |