Talk abstracts can be found here.
Tuesday 1st of December
Session 1 – Radio stars and transients (Chair: Joe Callingham)
| Time (UT) | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:10 | SOC/LOC | Welcome remarks and logistics |
| 09:10-09:40 | Harish Vedantham (invited) | Stellar and planetary science at low frequencies |
| 09:40-10:00 | Anton Feeney-Joshansson | Detecting radio flares from T Tauri stars using LOFAR |
| 10:00-10:20 | Jun Tian | Early-time Search for Coherent Radio Emission from Short GRBs with The Murchison Widefield Array |
| 10:20-10:40 | Barnali Das | Introducing main-sequence pulsars: an exotic subset of hot magnetic stars |
| 10:40-11:00 | Pedro Salas | Radio Recombination Lines from Cygnus X |
Session 2 – FRBs and Pulsars (Chair: Jason Hessels)
| 17:00-17:30 | Pragya Chawla (invited) | Fast Radio Bursts and their Low-Frequency Emission |
| 17:30-17:50 | Ziggy Pleunis | Fast radio burst morphology in the first CHIME/FRB catalog |
| 17:50-18:10 | Pratik Kumar | Pulsar Monitoring with the Long Wavelength Array to Measure Interstellar Effects |
| 18:10-18:30 | Emmanuel Fonseca | High-cadence Timing Observations of Radio Pulsars with CHIME |
| 18:30-18:50 | Sushan Konar | The Curious Case of Nulling Pulsars |
Wednesday 2nd of December
Session 3 – Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Cath Trott)
| 01:00-01:20 | Ben McKinley | Measuring the global redshifted 21-cm signal with an interferometer |
| 01:20-01:40 | Saurabh Singh | SARAS 3: A precision radiometer for observations of cosmic dawn |
| 01:40-02:00 | Nithyanandan Thyagarajan | Probing the intergalactic structures and the first quasars in the early Universe (z>6) using low frequency radio observations |
| 02:00-02:20 | Shintaro Yoshiura | Recent progress of MWA’s cosmic dawn data analysis |
| 02:20-02:40 | Nichole Barry | The MWA Cross-Pipeline Study: Observational vs. Analysis Systematics |
| 02:40-03:00 | Mahsa Rahimi | New MWA Epoch of Reionization Power Spectrum Measurements of the EoR1 field |
Session 4 – Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Ralph Wijers)
| 09:00-09:20 | Anne Hutter | Tracing the ionization topology with the 21cm bispectrum during the epoch of reionization |
| 09:20-09:40 | Anastasia Fialkov | High-redshift radio galaxies: a potential new source of 21-cm fluctuations |
| 09:40-10:00 | Isabella Carucci | 21cm intensity mapping: addressing foreground subtraction with a sparsity-based method |
| 10:00-10:20 | Ian Hothi | Comparing Foreground Removal Techniques for Recovery of the LOFAR-EoR 21cm Power Spectrum |
| 10:20-10:40 | Thomas Binnie | The Morlet power spectrum in 21cm parameter estimation |
| 10:40-11:00 | Hugh Garsden | 21 cm power spectra at 48 MHz (z = 28) from the Owens Valley Long Wavelength Array |
Session 5 – Epoch of Reionisation and Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Keith Vanderline)
| 17:00-17:30 | Jonathan Pober (invited) | Detecting the 21 cm Signal From the Epoch of Reionization |
| 17:30-17:50 | James Aguirre | Polarized Imaging for Reionization, with an Application to HERA |
| 17:50-18:10 | Pyxie Star | Improving MWA EoR0 limits by correcting digital non-linearities |
| 18:10-18:30 | Ruby Byrne | A Unified Calibration Framework for 21 cm Cosmology |
| 18:30-18:50 | Nicholas Kem | Gaussian Process Foreground Subtraction for 21 cm Cosmology |
| 18:50-19:10 | Florent Mertens | Observing the dark ages with LOFAR and NenuFAR |
Thursday 3rd of December
Session 6 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: Nichole Barry)
| 01:00-01:30 | Natasha Hurley-Walker (invited) | Searching for Supernova Remnants at Low Frequencies |
| 01:30-01:50 | Jess Broderick | A new search for high-redshift radio galaxies using the MWA GLEAM survey |
| 01:50-02:10 | Kathryn Ross | Unexpected Spectral Variability with the MWA |
| 02:10-02:30 | Kristina Nyland | Compact Radio Jets Revealed by Commensal VLITE Observations |
| 02:30-02:50 | Virginia Cuciti | Radio halos: moving towards large samples of galaxy clusters |
Session 7 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: L. Resmi)
| 09:00-09:30 | Sarah White (invited) | A 2020 view of the AGN world |
| 09:30-10:00 | Chris Riseley (invited) | Low-frequency polarimetry with next-generation aperture arrays: results, prospects and lessons learned |
| 10:00-10:20 | John McKean | Probing the faintest low frequency radio AGN/star-forming galaxies with gravitational lensing |
| 10:20-10:40 | Ana Erceg | Faraday tomography of the LoTSS data |
| 10:40-11:00 | Aditya Chowdhury | Atomic Hydrogen in Galaxies at z~1 |
Session 8 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: Tracy Clarke)
| 17:00-17:30 | Simona Giacintucci (invited) | Extended radio sources in galaxy clusters – An observer’s review |
| 17:30-17:50 | Franco Vazza | Simulating the evolution of “fossil” radio electrons injected by radio galaxies in the ICM |
| 17:50-18:10 | Erik Osinga | Diffuse Radio Emission from Galaxy Clusters in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields |
| 18:10-18:30 | Marisa Brienza | AGN feedback caught in the act: LOFAR and eROSITA observations of a galaxy group |
| 18:30-18:50 | Gabriella Di Gennaro | Strong magnetic fields for gigantic far away collisions |
Friday 4th of December
Session 9 – Solar and Ionosphere (Chair: Gregg Hallinan)
| 01:00-01:30 | Sherry Chhabra (invited) | Tuning in to the Solar Radio |
| 01:30-01:50 | Richard Fallows | The Scintillating Tail of Comet C/2020 F3 (Neowise) |
| 01:50-02:10 | Kenneth Obenberger | Passively tracking Sporadic E with the LWA using reflections of power line noise |
| 02:10-02:30 | Sophie Musset | Combination of radio and X-ray signatures of solar energetic electrons to study the radio source sizes in the heliosphere |
| 02:30-02:50 | Surajit Mondal | First radio evidence for ubiquitous impulsive heating in the quiet solar corona |
Session 10 – Instruments and Surveys (Chair: Annalisa Bonafede)
| 09:00-09:30 | Brian Hare (invited) | Lightning Interferometry with LOFAR |
| 09:30-09:50 | Leah Morabito | Sub-arcsecond imaging at MHz frequencies: the power of LOFAR |
| 09:50-10:10 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | MWA Phase III: On the Path to a 256T Array |
| 10:10-10:30 | Philip Best | The LoTSS Deep Fields |
| 10:30-10:50 | Austine Gumba | An Overview of the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment |
Session 11 – Instruments and Surveys (Chair: Joe Callingham)
| 17:00-17:20 | Wendy Peters | The VLITE Commensal Sky Survey (VCSS): A 340 MHz Companion to the VLA Sky Survey (VLASS) |
| 17:20-17:40 | Vincent MacKay | The Canadian Hydrogen Observatory and Radio-transient Detector (CHORD): Feed and Dish Design and Trade-offs |
| 17:40-18:00 | Gregg Hallinan | The Completion of the 352-antenna OVRO-LWA |
| 18:00-18:20 | Raul Monsalve | Progress in 2020 by the EDGES and MIST Global 21-cm Experiments |
| 18:20-18:40 | Nivedita Mahesh | Are non co-located linearly polarized antennas advantageous for FARSIDE? |
| 18:40-19:00 | Jason Hessels | LOFAR 2.0 |
| 19:00-19:05 | SOC/LOC | Closing remarks |