Monday, May 2, 2016 | |
10:00 - 10:30 | welcome with coffee & tea |
10:30 - 12:00 | Science Talks: Telescope updates Ramesh Karuppusamy Marta Burgay/Alessandro Corongiu Ben Stappers Gemma Janssen Jason Hessels |
12:00 - 13:30 | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Science Talks: Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP) and timing Kuo Liu: LEAP overview and update AND PSR J1713+0747 with LEAP James McKee: Other LEAP Science Stefan Oslowski: The interstellar medium towards J1509+5531 as seen by LOFAR Golam Shaifullah: Millisecond Pulsar spectral indices AND long-term timing of the black-widow pulsar PSR J2051-0719 |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break |
15:30 - 17:00 | Internal discussions: LEAP (chair: Michael Kramer) |
19:00 | |
Tuesday, May 3, 2016 | |
9:00 - 9:30 | Science Talks: Timing group Cees Bassa: A (new) companion to PSR J1024-0719 James McKee: A glitch in PSR J0613-0200 |
9:30 - 10:00 | Science Talks: Gravitational Wave (GW) sources & algorithms Alberto Sesana: Bias on Black-Hole (BH)-galaxy relation and consequences for Pulsar Timing Arrays (PTAs) + PTA constraint on proposed Massive BH Binary (MBHB) populations Lindley Lentati: tbd |
10:00 - 10:30 | coffee break |
10:30 - 12:00 | Internal discussions: project list (chair: Joris Verbiest) |
12:00 - 13:30 | |
13:30 - 15:00 | Internal discussions: EPTA organisation (chair: Gemma Janssen) |
15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break |
15:30 - 17:00 | Internal discussions: Working groups |
Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | |
9:00 - 10:00 | Science Talks: GW sources & algorithms Steve Taylor: From SMBH binary populations simulations to GW searches AND Search for Bursts With Memory in NANOGrav data Siyuan Chen: Inverse problem: reconstructing the MBHB population from PTA observation (with focus on the eccentricity) Stas Babak: noise characterization and build-up of GW detection confidence with PTA |
10:00 - 10:30 | coffee break |
10:30 - 12:00 | Internal discussions: International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA) Caterina Tiburzi: Update from Diversity Committee Ben Perera: IPTA Data Release 2 status update Michael Kramer: General IPTA Discussion |
12:00 | end of meeting |
The Science Talks are open to anyone interested, but the Internal Discussions are subject to restricted access.