European Pulsar Timing Array Meeting
November 12 - 14, 2018
Bielefeld University, Lecture Hall X-E0-234
Preliminary Programme
Each talk is supposed to last 12+3 minutes, except for the telescope updates and the talks in the international PTA session.
Monday, November 12, 2018 | 10:00 - 10:30 | coffee, welcome, news | 10:30 - 11:15 | Telescope updates (chair: Cees Bassa) Gemma Janssen [WSRT] Ben Perera [JBO] Julian Donner [LOFAR] Lucas Guillemot [NRT] Marta Burgay [SRT] David Champion [Effelsberg] | 11:15 - 11:45 | LEAP (chair: Delphine Perrodin) Kuo Liu: Update from the LEAP working group Lin Wang: Giant pulse study on PSR B1821-24A with LEAP | 11:45 - 13:00 | First discussion session on research groups (speakers: the group leaders) | 13:00 - 14:15 | lunch break | 14:15 - 15:00 | DA (chair: Lin Wang) Siyuan Chen: DA update Nicolas Caballero: Digging deeper into the effects of the Solar-system ephemerides on Pulsar Timing Arrays Siyuan Chen:Re-analyzing the EPTA DR1 + more with enterprise | 15:00 - 15:30 | coffee break | 15:30 - 17:00 | Second discussion session (chaired by Joris Verbiest) DC2 practicalities discussion [who is involved in the DC2 is supposed to attend, the others can decide if to attend or not] | | | Tuesday, November 13, 2018 | 9:00 - 10:30 | Third discussion session (chaired by Andrea Possenti) IPTA generalities and documents | 10:30 - 11:00 | coffee break | 11:00 - 12:15 | Timing (chair: Antoine Petiteau) Jun Wang: Fundamental improvement to pulsar timing Ann-Sofie Bak Nielsen: Three stable black widows Gregory Desvignes, Ben Shaw: PulChron: A pulsar timescale demonstration for the European Space Agency Xiaojing Liu: Correlated noise and frequency second derivative in precision pulsar timing | 12:15 - 13:00 | International PTAs (chair: Emma van der Wateren) Krishnakumar Moochickal Ambalappat: Briefing the InPTA Tim Pennucci: Recent and Upcoming Datasets from NANOGrav Ben Perera: IPTA DR2 status (Nicolas Caballero?) | 13:00 - 14:00 | lunch break | 14:00 - 15:15 | Fourth discussion session (chaired by Michael Kramer) Roadmap to detection | 15:15 - 15:45 | coffee break | 15:45 - 17:00 | IISM (chair: Lorenz Haase) Tim Pennucci: Estimation of Scattering and Refractive Delays in Wideband Pulsar Observations Alessandro Corongiu: Contributes to IISM projects by observations with the Sardinia Radio Telescope Golam Shaifullah: 8 years of DM and RM from PuMall Krishnakumar Moochickal Ambalappat: Scattering in pulsars at low frequencies Julian Donner: LOFAR dispersion measure monitoring for MSPs | 18:30 | social dinner at Nichtschwimmer
| | Menu Nichtschwimmer | | | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Fifth discussion session (chaired by Andrea Possenti) IPTA summary and finalisation of the IPTA documents | 10:30 - 10:45 | Final announcements by Joris Verbiest | 10:45 - 11:15 | coffee break | 11:45 - end | DA/Timing workshop |
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