2006

Program of the workshop (including the presentation)

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Monday,
May 15, 2006 11:00–12:30
11:00 Welcome Harvey Butcher
  11:10 An extended LOFAR – Setting the Scene Heino Falcke
  11:30 Status of developments in each country Rainer Beck, Rob Fender, Michel Tagger, John Conway, Daniele Dallacasa
  12:15 The purpose of this workshop (Discussion) Corina Vogt
12:30–13:30 Lunch    
13:30–15:30
Science Discussion I (Astronomical Feasibility, Solar System, High Redshift Universe)
  
13:30 Scattering & VLBI at (very) low frequencies Ger de Bruyn
13:50 Discussion – General Radio Astronomy  
14:10 Solar observations with LOFAR Christian Vocks
14:20 Fast radio imaging of Jupiter’s magnetosphere at low-frequencies with LOFAR Philippe Zarka
  14:30 High angular resolution study of solar system planetary lightning with LOFAR Philippe Zarka
  14:40 Discussion  
  15:00 LOFAR Long Baseline Observations of Nearby Nuclear Starbursts John Conway
  15:10 Radio Deep fields & Star formation at high redshift Rob Beswick
  15:20 High Redshift Radio Galaxies George Miley
15:30–16:00 Coffee Break    
16:00–18:00
Science
Discussion II (AGN, Acceleration Mechanism)
16:00 HI absorption at high redshift Raffaella Morganti
16:10 Cluster lensing – the ultimate tool for E-LOFAR Deep field studies Mike Garrett
  16:20 Extragalactic surveys with LOFAR long baselines Matthew Jarvis
  16:30 Discussion  
  16:50 Extended LOFAR and Particle Spectrum in Extragalactic Radio sources Gianfranco Brunetti
  17:00 Collimated outflows and galaxy evolution with LOFAR Andrei Lobanov
  17:10 The First Black Holes Heino Falcke
  17:20 Discussion  
  17:40 Wrap-up discussion – Brainstorm on further topics  
19:00 Dinner    
Tuesday,
May 16, 2006 9:00–10:30
Science Discussion III (Low frequency polarisation)
9:00 Linear polarization at (very) low frequencies Ger de Bruyn
9 :10 FRI jet physics with LOFAR Robert Laing
9:20 High resolution low-frequency mapping of the Milky Way Wolfgang Reich
  9:30 RM surveys and high-resolution polarization observations with LOFAR Rainer Beck
  9:40 Radio emission from galaxy clusters Luigina Feretti
  9:50 Discussion  
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break    
11:00–12:30
Technicalities
11:00 Software issues Kjeld van der Schaaf
  11:20 Update on e-VLBI & EXPReS Mike Garrett
  11:30 uv-coverages for an extended LOFAR Corina Vogt
  11:40 Discussion  
12:30–13:30 Lunch    
13:30–14:30 International Organisation of LOFAR - Michiel van Haarlem
Discussion: Where do we go from here? Summary!
 
14:30 Drinks and End of Meeting  
       
       
       

 

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