Annual Meeting
Kraków 2018



This event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730562 [RadioNet].
Under the honorary patronage of the Rector of the Jagiellonian University, prof. Wojciech Nowak



Program

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MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER
Lecture room A-1-03
9:00 – 9:15 Registration
9:15 – 9:30 Welcome words by the Jagielonian University authorities
LOFAR and surveys session (Chair Cathy Horellou)
Invited talks
9:30 – 10:00 Marco Iacobelli, LOFAR: current status and future perspectives
10:00 – 10:15 Cyril Tasse, Calibration and imaging algorithms of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
10:15 – 10:45 Tim Shimwell, An update on the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee
Milky Way session (Chair Marco Iacobelli)
Invited talk
11:20 – 11:50 Jörg P. Rachen, Ultra-high energy cosmic ray deflections in the Galactic magnetic field
11:50 – 12:05 Vibor Jelic, Magnetically aligned straight depolarisation canals and the Rolling Hough Transform
12:05 – 12:20 Marta Alves, Faraday tomography of a high Galactic latitude region: search for Faraday filaments (remotely)
12:20 – 12:35 Charlotte Sobey, LOFAR Faraday rotation measures towards pulsars
12:35 – 13:40 Lunch (ground floor)
Cosmic Rays session (Chair Marco Iacobelli)
13:40 – 13:55 Andrew Fletcher, Modelling Cosmic Ray Electron Propagation
13:55 – 14:10 Volker Heesen, Modelling radio haloes in nearby galaxies with 1D cosmic ray transport
Nearby Galaxies session (Chair Andrew Fletcher)
14:10 – 14:25 Cathy Horellou, Activities of the Nearby Galaxies working group
14:25 – 14:40 George Heald, A multifrequency view of the extended radio continuum halo in NGC 5775
14:40 – 14:55 Arpad Miskolczi, CHANG-ES XIV: A LOFAR and VLA view of the edge-on star-forming galaxy NGC 3556
14:55 – 15:10 Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, The CHANG-ES view of edge-on galaxies
15:10 – 15:25 Julia Piotrowska, LOFAR view of NGC6946
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
Discussion session (Chair Andrew Fletcher)
16:00 – 17:00 Science Discussion 1 - IMAGINE - Jörg P. Rachen and Andrew Fletcher
17:00 – 18:00 Science Discussion 2 - MKSP membership, MKSP WGs - George Heald and WGs chairs
19:30 DINNER in the downtown

TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
Lecture room A-1-03
Nearby Galaxies session - continued (Chair Andrew Fletcher)
9:15 – 9:30 Björn Adebahr, Thermal absorption in M51
9:30 – 9:40 Krzysztof Chyży, MSSS galaxy spectra
Methods session (Chair Charlotte Sobey)
Invited talk
9:40 – 10:10 Hanna Rothkaehl, Probing ionospheric structures with LOFAR
10:10 – 10:25 Sarrvesh Sridhar, cuFFS: A GPU accelerated package for RM Synthesis Presentation
10:25 – 10:40 Yoshimitsu Miyashita, Sparse reconstruction using total squared variation of polarimetric observations at low frequency
10:40 – 10:55 Haruya Eguchi, Analysis of the magnetic field of galaxies using Faraday tomography
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
Radio galaxies session (Chair Volker Heesen)
Invited talk
11:30 – 12:00 Magdalena Kunert-Bajraszewska, AGN’s life cycle – short-lived radio sources
12:00 – 12:15 Marek Jamrozy, Powerful radio galaxies and their life cycles
12:15 – 12:30 Noelia Herrera Ruiz, VLBI uncovering the AGN population
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (ground floor)
13:30 – 13:45 Shane O'Sullivan, Intergalactic magnetic fields probed by giant radio galaxies
13:45 – 14:00 Urszula Pajdosz, Megaparsec-scale radio structure associated with a hybrid blazar: episodic jet activity with precessing axis
Galaxy groups and clusters session (Chair Ralf-Juergen Dettmar)
14:00 – 14:15 Marek Urbanik, Pre-LOFAR low-frequency studies of intergalactic magnetic fields in galaxy pairs and groups
14:15 – 14:30 Amanda Wilber, The evolutionary phases of merging clusters as revealed by LOFAR
Discussion session (Chair Ralf-Juergen Dettmar)
14:30 – 15:30 Science Discussion 3 - Polarization and ionospheric corrections - Shane O'Sullivan, Hanna Rothkaehl
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
16:00 – 16:45 Science Discussion 4 - LoTSS, proposals and future - Tim Shimwell, Cyril Tasse, George Heald, Ralf-Juergen Dettmar, Krzysztof Chyży
Open lecture (Lecture Room A-1-06) (Chair Błażej Nikiel-Wroczyński)
17:00 – 18:00 George Heald and Tim Shimwell, Exploring the Universe with the world's largest radio telescopes
18:00 – 18:30 Closing remarks

WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER
Busy day
Computer room F-1-08
9:30 – 9:45 Plans for busy days - Shane O’Sullivan
9:45 – 11:00 Science discussion 5, moderators TBD
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (ground floor)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee

THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER
Busy day
Computer room F-1-08
9:30 –
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (ground floor)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee
Grill party

FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER
Busy day
Computer room F-1-08
9:30 –
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (ground floor)