SALF VIII 2021 Talk Schedule

Abstracts are available here. Note that after each session block we will gather in the Gather.Town space here. There will be a discussion room for a formal extension of the sessions topic (lead by the chair), a chance to see some lightning talks, and socialise.

Monday 6th of December

Session 1 – Radio stars, transients, and pulsars (Chair: Joe Callingham)

Time (UT)SpeakerTalk Title
09:00-09:10SOC/LOCWelcome remarks and logistics
09:10-09:40Natasha Hurley-Walker
(invited)
An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission
09:40-10:00Ziggy PleunisNew repeating sources of FRBs from CHIME/FRB
10:00-10:20Calvin LeungA One-Off FRB Localized with VLBI with CHIME/FRB
10:20-10:40Parasar ThulasiramNarrow-band Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar: A Potential Connection with Fast Radio Bursts
10:40-11:00Akshatha GopinathFast radio bursts with the LOFAR telescope

Session 2 – Radio stars, transients, and pulsars (Chair: Paul Scholz)

17:00-17:30Mohit Bhardwaj (invited)
Deciphering the origins of FRBs using local Universe CHIME/FRB discoveries
17:30-17:50Pragya ChawlaThe First CHIME/FRB Catalog: Interpreting FRB Dispersion Measures and Scattering Timescales
17:50-18:10Nobleson KLow-frequency wideband timing on uGMRT data
18:10-18:30Robert KavanaghStar-planet interactions at radio wavelengths
18:30-19:00Barnali Das (invited)Unravelling the mystery of Main sequence Radio Pulse emitters

Tuesday 7th of December

Session 3 – Pulsars, FRBs, and Epoch of Reionisation / Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Nichole Barry)

01:00-01:20Dilpreet KaurDetection of chromatic dispersion measure towards the millisecond pulsar J2241-5236
01:20-01:40Krishnakumar MoochickalUnraveling the ionised and magnetised ISM with pulsars
01:40-02:00Jaikhomba SinghaEvidence for profile changes in PSR J1713+0747 using the uGMRT
02:00-02:20Ruby ByrneMapping Diffuse Radio Emission at 182 MHz to Enhance Epoch of Reionization Observations in the Southern Hemisphere
02:20-02:40Suchetha CoorayAn iterative reconstruction algorithm for Faraday tomography
02:40-03:00Florent MertensExploring the Cosmic Dawn with NenuFAR

Session 4 – Epoch of Reionisation / Cosmic Dawn (Chair: Bharat Gehlot)

09:00-09:20Dominic AnsteyAn Update on the REACH experiment and its Bayesian Data Analysis Pipeline
09:20-09:40Richard ShawFirst detection of cosmological signals with CHIME intensity mapping
09:40-10:00Yuan Shi21 cm global Spectrum measurement on the lunar orbit
10:00-10:20Nichole BarryThe Consequences of Misrepresenting the Beam in 21 cm Power Spectra and Rotation Measure Synthesis
10:20-10:40Ankita BeraImpact of cosmic ray heating on global 21-cm signal during cosmic dawn
10:40-11:00Mike KrieleImaging the Southern Sky at 159 MHz using SphericalHarmonics with the Engineering Development Array 2

Session 5 – Epoch of Reionisation / Cosmic Dawn and Clusters (Chair: André Offringa)

17:00-17:30Nicholas Kern (invited)First Results from HERA Phase I: Improved Power Spectrum Limits at z=8
17:30-17:50Josh DillonWhat’s Next for the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionzation Array?
17:50-18:10Pyxie StarBeyond Van Vleck: Correcting digital nonlinearities of real-world systems
18:10-18:30Julian MunozCosmology from 21-cm radio
18:30-18:50Anniek GloudemansUsing low-frequency observations to study and find z > 5 quasars into the Epoch of Reionization
18:50-19:10Virginia CucitiRadio megahalos: a deep dive into the outskirts of galaxy clusters

Wednesday 8th of December

Session 6 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: John Morgan)

01:00-01:20Marcus BrüggenBridges, tails, diffuse radio emission: synthesis of eROSITA with radio telescopes
01:20-01:50Aditya Chowdhury (invited)Atomic Hydrogen in High-redshift Galaxies
01:50-02:10Stefan DuchesneDiffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters: palaeontology with the MWA and ASKAP
02:10-02:30Melis IrfanDiffuse Radio Emission: the view from a single-dish intensity mapping experiment
02:30-02:50Silpa SasikumarProbing radio outflows in radio-quiet and radio-intermediate AGN

Session 7 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: Tao An)

09:00-09:30Leah Morabito (invited)AGN science with sub-arcsecond imaging at MHz frequencies
09:30-09:50Erik OsingaStudying particle (re)acceleration mechanisms in the famous cluster Abell 2256 down to 16 MHz
09:50-10:10Kenda KnowlesThe MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey
10:10-10:30Rohit KondapallyCosmic evolution of jet-mode AGN in the LOFAR Deep Fields
10:30-11:00Rossella Cassano (invited)The Planck clusters in the LOFAR sky

Session 8 – Milky Way, Galaxies, and Clusters (Chair: Rick Perley)

17:00-17:30Beatriz Mingo (invited)AGN accretion mode vs radio morphology: news from the LOFAR Deep Fields
17:30-17:50Vijay MahatmaSub-arcsecond imaging of 3C radio galaxies at 150 MHz
17:50-18:10Zara RandriamanakotoSystematic search for remnant & restarted radio galaxies using multi-frequency surveys
18:10-18:30Marisa BrienzaFilamentary AGN remnant radio emission in the SKA era
18:30-18:50Marie-Lou Gendron-MarsolaisWhat can bent-jet radio galaxies teach us about clusters of galaxies ?
18:50-
19:10
Andrea BotteonThe LOFAR Galaxy Cluster Deep Field

Thursday 9th of December

Session 9 – Solar, Ionosphere, and Scintillation (Chair: Poonam Chandra)

01:00-01:30Pietro Zucca (invited)Observing the Sun and the Heliosphere with LOFAR: a summary of the current results and observing modes.
01:30-01:50Kat RossA Scintillating Result: Unexpected MHz Spectral Variability
01:50-02:10Caterina TiburziStudying the heliosphere through low-frequency observations of pulsars
02:10-02:30Frits SweijenSub-arcsecond widefield imaging with LOFAR – The Lockman hole field
02:30-03:00John Morgan (invited)The MWA Phase II IPS survey – first data release

Session 10 – Instruments, Techniques, and Surveys (Chair: Mike Garrett)

09:00-09:30Wendy Peters
(invited)
Pushing the Limits: Leveraging the Full Field of View with VLITE and the VLITE Commensal Sky Survey (VCSS)
09:30-09:50Joseph LazioThe Sun Radio Interferometer Space Experiment (SunRISE) Mission
09:50-10:10Brian Hare3D polarized beamforming for probing lightning with the LOFAR radio telescope
10:10-10:30Arthur CorstanjeResults on mass composition of cosmic rays as measured with LOFAR
10:30-10:50Tim ShimwellThe LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
10:50-
11:10
Jeff WaggThe SKA View of the Low Frequency Universe

Session 11 – Instruments and Surveys (Chair: Jason Hessels)

17:00-17:20Ue-Li PenBroadbeam Radio Survey Telescope (BRST)
17:20-17:40David DavidsonElectromagnetic modelling of antenna and station beams for low frequency radio astronomy
17:40-18:00Gregg HallinanThe OVRO-LWA – upgraded for real-time continuous all-sky imaging from 12-85 MHz
18:00-18:20Reinout van WeerenLoDeSS – The LOFAR Decametre Sky Survey
18:20-18:40Isabella Paola CarucciBlind Foreground Subtraction Challenge for SKAO HI Intensity Mapping
18:40-19:00Ekaterina KononovSpace-based Radio Detection of Exoplanets with Vector Sensors
19:00-19:10SOC/LOCClosing remarks