LOFAR

  magnetism key science project Workshop

    Bologna 24-25th November 2011

Program

Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 Nov 2011

• 10:00  Rosita Paladino - Opening

• 10:05  Luigina Feretti   - Magnetic field studies  and new developments at IRA
  
• 10:25  Lakshmi Saripalli - Aspects of radio galaxies and lifecycles
  
• 10:45  Mike Bell - Faraday synthesis: the synergy of aperture and rotation measure synthesis

• 11:05  Roberto Pizzo - The Milky Way polarized emission towards A2255 at LOFAR frequencies
  
• 11:20  Marco Iacobelli -  A view of the Fan region with LOFAR
  
• 11:35  Coffee break         
  
• 11:55  Emanuela Orrù - Latest commissioning results on Giant Radio Galaxies
• 12:10  David Mulcahy - Commissioning Progress on the Dual observations of 3C295 and M51: 
                                        the transfer of gain solutions method

• 12:25  Charlotte Sobey - Latest pulsar polarisation results
  
• 12:40  Krzysztof Chyzy - Observations of NGC4631 and M81/M82 with LOFAR HBA
• 12:55  James Anderson - Ionospheric calibration
  
• 13:05  George Heald - General status of LOFAR and MSSS
• 13:30  Lunch break

• 14:30  Rainer Beck - Report from the Management Team and general status of the MKSP
• 14:50 Andreas Horneffer - Status of the Polarization Commissioning for LOFAR
  
• 15:05 Mike Bell - Report on the RM Synthesis Pipeline and the Polarisation Working Group
• 15:20 Reports from Working Groups and Task Groups (Andrew Fletcher)
  
• 16:00 Aris Noutsos - The raw-voltage pipeline and the Jones calibration of baseband data  +   Masaya Kuniyoshi
  

• 16:15 Coffee break

• 16:30 Discussion 1 - Future commissioning observations and next commissioning proposals (lead by Andreas)
  
• 18:00 Discussion 2 - Scientific exploitation of the MSSS (lead by Anna)
  

        20:00     Workshop dinner at "Osteria al 15"

Friday  November 25th

• 09:00  Gianfranco Brunetti - Considerations on low-frequency synchrotron emission
                                                       from galaxies and clusters of galaxies

• 09:20  Christoph Pfrommer - Interaction of galaxies with environment - shocks and magnetic draping
• 09:40  Anna Scaife - Constraining magnetic field in globular clusters using pulsar RMs
• 10:00  George Heald - Magnetized disk-halo interactions in spiral galaxies
• 10:20  Coffee break

• 10:40  Discussion 3 - Updated Project Plan and long-term proposals (lead by Rainer)
• 11:10  Discussion 4 - Science papers
  
• 11:30  Business meeting
  
• 12:00  Meeting of working groups
  
• 13:00  End