2023 – 9th Annual Science At Low Frequencies (SALF) Conference

Driven by substantial upgrades in recent years to existing facilities and the construction of new radio telescopes, the capabilities for low frequency radio science are greatly expanding. Significant progress is being made in high redshift 21-cm cosmology including the cosmic dawn and epoch of reionization, pulsar and transient science, and the understanding of planetary and exoplanetary magnetospheres, radio sky surveys, space weather, and solar physics. The Science at Low Frequencies (SALF) conference provides a forum for astronomers to share and discuss science results, techniques, and technologies, as well as to plan a coordinated path forward to future projects and facilities.

SALF IX will be a hybrid conference, with the in-person component hosted at WCW, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. WCW is located in the Science Park associated with the University of Amsterdam.

Schedule

The conference schedule is available here: https://salfconference.org/salf-ix-2023-talk-schedule/

Key Dates

Registration deadline has passed but if you want to attend online, please contact ao-secretariat@astron.nl.

Conference period: Monday 11th to Friday 15th of December, 2023

Participants

The list of registered participants (that gave permission for their name to be publicly listed) can be found here.

Travel Advice

For people flying into the Netherlands, it is suggested you fly into Schipol airport. From there, Amsterdam is immediately accessible via train. A train leaves for Amsterdam approximately every 15 minutes. The tickets for the train are purchasable after exiting the luggage collection part of the airport. You find the schedule of the trains on the NS website. We would advise against travelling to Amsterdam from Schipol via taxi.

The conference venue (WCW), located at Amsterdam Science park, is accessible by bus, train, and biking infrastructure. There is a direct train from Schipol airport. Google Maps has all the information for travelling the best route to Science Park, but you can find further information here.

If you require a letter of invitation for visa purposes, please contact the ASTRON secretariat ASAP via ao-secretariat@astron.nl.

Also, if you would like childcare resources, we are happy to provide resources for that but it will have to be arranged on an adhoc basis (largely due to Dutch law). If that is something you would like, please contact the ASTRON secretariat ASAP via ao-secretariat@astron.nl.

Accommodation Advice

Some recommended hotels are provided below. This is list was formed of hotels that are reasonably close to the conference venue and reasonably priced (for Amsterdam). Outside of the Manor Hotel (detailed below), we have not made block bookings. So please choose a hotel (or other form of accomodation – booking.com or airbnb will have lots of options) that suits your budget and book asap. The recommended hotels are:

Le Coin – 020 524 6800
Hotel Rembrandt – 020-6272714
Hampshire Hotel Lancaster – 020-5356884
Eden Hotel Amsterdam – 020-5307878
The Manor Hotel Amsterdam – 020-7008400 NOTE: this is where ASTRON made the block booking of 20 rooms for PhD students

Science Organising Committee

Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University)
Jason Hessels (ASTRON/UvA)
Joe Callingham (ASTRON/Leiden), Chair
Poonam Chandra (NRAO/NCRA)
Leah Morabito (University of Durham)
Bryan Gaensler (University of Toronto)
Cherry Ng (CNRS)
Jonathan Pober (Brown University)
Peijin Zhang (University of Helsinki)
Wendy Williams (SKAO)
George Heald (CSIRO)
Oleg Ul’yanov (Institute of Radio Astronomy, Ukraine)

Local Organising Committee

Jason Hessels (ASTRON/UvA)
Joe Callingham (ASTRON/Leiden)
Marjan Tibbe (ASTRON)
Liesbet Elpenhof (ASTRON)
Robert Kavanagh (ASTRON)