Science at Low Frequencies II
Albuquerque, NM - Wednesday December 2 - Friday December 4, 2015
Poster
Name Title
Sotiris Sanidas (U. Amsterdam) DRAGNET: A Real-Time Pulsar and Fast Transient Backend for LOFAR
Christene Lynch (U. Sydney) Low frequency transients with the MWA
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (ASU) Designing EoR experiments to tackle foregrounds in wide-field measurements
Yvette Cendes (U. Amsterdam) Tuning in the Low-Frequency Transient Radio Sky with AARTFAAC
Namir Kassim (NRL) VLA Low Band Ionospheric and Transient Experiment (VLITE), the Low Band Observatory (LOBO), and the path to ngLOBO
Glen Langston (NSF) Spectrum protection for Low Frequency Radio Astronomy
Glen Langston (NSF) INSPIRE: Opportunity for Citizen Science, Computer Science, Engineering, and Astro-Particle Physics
Bart Pindor (Melbourne) OzPipe: An Australian Pipeline for the MWA EoR Experiment
Khan Muhammad bin Asad (Kapteyn) Polarization leakage in epoch of reionization windows: accuracy of the prediction and correction
Indy Leclercq (Manchester) Studying the diffuse galactic synchrotron emission around 1.4 Ghz with GALFACTS
Jason Kooi (U Iowa) VLA measurements of Faraday rotation through a coronal mass ejection
Paul Hancock (Curtin) The GLEAM survey - Images to Catalogs

Wednesday (Dec. 2nd)
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

Thursday (Dec. 3rd)
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



Friday (Dec. 4th)
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

Saturday (Dec. 5th)
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