German SKA Science Meeting

February 12 - 13, 2014

Bielefeld University

lecture hall 6

please, find a map of the main building with the marked conference site below - at the end of the schedule.
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Wednesday, Feburary 12

10:30 - 10:55 

Registration & Coffee

area next to lecture hall H6

10:55

Welcome

11:00

Braun, R., (SKA)

The Square Kilometre Array

11:45

discussion & questions

science and baseline design

12:00

Koopmans, L., (U Groningen)

Epoch of reionization 

12:30

Kramer, M., (MPIfR Bonn)

Fundamental physics with pulsars

13:00

                                          Lunch

14:00

Klöckner, H.-R., (MPIfR Bonn)

German involvement in SWG and consortia, purpose and structure of GLOWSKA

14:15

Horneffer, A., (MPIfR Bonn)

Lessons for SKA from LOFAR calibration

14:30

Hoeft, M., (LSW Tautenburg)

SKA at lowest frequencies: The AADC consortium

14:45

Schwarz, D.J., (U Bielefeld)

Cosmology with the SKA 

15:00

Libeskind, N., (AIP Potsdam)

Defining the cosmic web

15:10

Rubart, M., (U Bielefeld)

The cosmic radio dipole and local density effects

15:30

                                           Coffee break

16:00

Weller, J., (LMU München)

Synergies between SKA and Euclid

16:15

Merloni, A., (MPE Garching)

Synergies between SKA and eROSITA

16:30

Reiprich, T., (U Bonn)

Galaxy cluster science with eROSITA and (A) SKA (P)

16:45

Brüggen M., (U Hamburg)

Continuum surveys with the SKA

17:00

discussion & questions

involvement in SKA SWGs and consortia

17:30

                                            Coffee break

18:00

Karim, A., (U Bonn)

The 2 square degree JVLA-COSMOS 3 GHz survey

18:15

deGasperin, F., (U Hamburg)

Millions of AGN: Population and counterparts

18:30

Mann, G., (AIP Potsdam)

Observation of the sun by SKA

18:45

                                             End 

20:00

Dinner at Brauhaus Johann Albrecht

Thursday, February 13

9:00

Beck, R., (MPIfR Bonn)

Evolution of galactic magnetic fields

9:15

Schleicher, D., (U Göttingen)

The origin of high-redshift magnetic fields and the far-infrared-radio connection

9:30

Schnitzerler, D., (MPIfR Bonn)

Cosmic magnetism 

9:45

Iapichino, L., (U Heidelberg)

Turbulence and magnetic dynamo in the cosmological large scale structure

10:00

Tabatabei, F., (MPIA Heidelberg)

Origin and energetics of the radio continuum emission from nearby galaxies

10:15

Basu, K., (U Bonn)

Radio halos in galaxy clusters: A new cosmic probe for SKA and its pathfinders?

10:30

                                        Coffee break

11:00

Lobanov, A., (MPIfR Bonn)

Reaching out to the dark side with SKA

11:15

Kerp, J., (U Bonn)

HI observations of the Milky Way and the local universe

11:30

Tuffs, R., (MPI Heidelberg)                               

HI and radio continuum observations of GAMA groups and clusters with ASKAP

11:45

Bomans, D., (AIRUB Bochum)

Dissecting galactic winds of dwarf and proto-galaxies with SKA

12:00

discussion & questions

funding perspectives

12:30

                                          Lunch

13:30

Lippert, T., / Homberg W., (FZ Jülich)

High performance computing meets astrophysics

13:45

Adebahr, B., (MPIfR Bonn)

Challenges for SKA data reduction

14:00

James, C., (U Erlangen)

The lunar technique - detecting the highest energy cosmic rays with SKA

14:15

Huege, T., (KIT)

Radio detection of cosmic rays and the SKA

14:30

Wagner, S., (U Heidelberg)

Synergies between SKA and CTA

14:45

                                           Coffee break

15:15

Ros, E., (MPIfR Bonn)

Why SKA needs to provide very long baseline interferometry

15:30

Wucknitz, O., (MPIfR Bonn)

Utilizing interstellar scattering as a natural interferometer

15:45

Sesana, A., (AEI Potsdam)

Gravitational waves science with the SKA

16:00

Kunz, J., (U Oldenburg)

Rotating black holes in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theory

16:15

Oslowski, S., (U Bielefeld)

Pulsar key science project - not only tests of gravity

16:30

final discussion & summary

17:00

                                              End