Name: Galactic Magnetism in the Era of LOFAR and SKA
Start: 2013-09-23T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2013-09-27T18:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

Galactic Magnetism in the Era of LOFAR and SKA

from Monday, September 23, 2013 (9:00 AM) to Friday, September 27, 2013 (6:00 PM)

Monday, September 23, 2013

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Room: AlbaNova Entrance Lobby
9:45 AM
9:45 AM - 11:25 AM
Room: FA32
Contributions

9:45 AM Cosmic-ray-driven Dynamo in barred and dwarf irregular Galaxies - Katarzyna Otmianowska-Mazur (Kraków Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory)

10:25 AM Polarization maps from hybrid dynamo simulations - Oliver Gressel (Nordita)

11:05 AM Cosmic-ray-driven dynamo in the Milky Way - Natalia Nowak (Kraków Jagiellonian University Astronomical Observatory)
11:25 AM Short break
Short break
11:25 AM - 11:40 AM
Room: FA32
11:40 AM
11:40 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

11:40 AM Linking Global Dynamo Simulations with Observations (discussion)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: AlbaNova Restaurant
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

2:00 PM ISM Turbulence (discussion)
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: FA32
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

3:30 PM Studying RM dispersion from turbulence simulations - Axel Brandenburg (Nordita)

4:15 PM Comparing turbulence simulations with observations - Blakesley Burkhart (University of Wisconsin Madison)
5:00 PM

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: FA32
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: FA32
Contributions

9:00 AM The Extent of Magnetic Fields around Galaxies - Martin Bernet (Institute of Astronomy, ETH Zurich)

9:45 AM Rotation-Measure as a Function of Redshift - Bryan Gaensler (The University of Sydney)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: FA32
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

11:00 AM Statistical properties of RM dispersion (discussion)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: AlbaNova Restaurant
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

2:00 PM Recent VLA polarization results - Sui Ann Mao (NRAO/U of Wisconsin Madison)

2:30 PM Broadband spectrophotometry of AGN in the ATCA Beta Test Field - Craig Anderson (The University of Sydney)
3:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: FA32
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

3:30 PM LOFAR MKSP status report on polarization - George Heald (ASTRON)

3:50 PM POSSUM: Status and early science with ASKAP - Cormac Purcell (Sydney Institute for Astronomy)

4:10 PM Status report on MeerKAT / KAT-7 - Alex Clarke (University of Southampton)
4:30 PM

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: FA32
Wednesday, September 25, 2013
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

9:00 AM Scientific Applications of RM Synthesis - Rainer Beck (MPIfR Bonn)

9:45 AM Report on the RM synthesis data challenge - Xiaohui Sun (The University of Sydney)

11:00 AM Wavelet techniques and RM synthesis - Rodion Stepanov (Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Science)

11:45 AM Faraday Synthesis: The synergy of aperture and rotation measure synthesis - Henrik Junklewitz (MPA Garching)
12:15 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:15 PM - 3:00 PM
Room: AlbaNova Restaurant

3:00 PM

3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: FA32
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

3:30 PM POSSUM RM-synthesis pipeline - Cormac Purcell (The University of Sydney)

4:30 PM Hands-on data challenge - Xiaohui Sun (The University of Sydney)
Thursday, September 26, 2013

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: n/a
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: FB42
Contributions

11:00 AM RM signatures of Milky Way foreground objects - Andrew Fletcher (Newcastle University)

11:30 AM RM synthesis in the SINGS sample - George Heald (ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy)

11:50 AM Update of WSRT SINGs galaxy polarimetry -- Wide-band RM synthesis of NGC 6946 - Anna Williams (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: AlbaNova Restaurant
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

2:00 PM Telecon with SKA cosmic magnetism group

2:45 PM RM Clean Tutorial - George Heald (ASTRON)
3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: FA32

4:00 PM

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Room: FA32
Friday, September 27, 2013

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: n/a
10:00 AM
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: FA32
Contributions

10:00 AM Starlight polarization - Antonio Mario Magalhaes

10:30 AM Polarization and depolarization at long wavelengths - Cathy Horellou (Chalmers University of Technology)
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room: FA32
Contributions

11:00 AM Wrap-up
12:30 PM

12:30 PM - 12:45 PM
Room: FA32

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