4-8 November 2019
MPIfR
Europe/Berlin timezone

Scintillometry 2019 - Programme

The main Conference room is the lecture hall, room 0.02 in MPIfR


Monday

 

10:00  Registration and Coffee  - Reception Hall

 

Introduction Block

10:40  Introduction / Opening Remarks

11:00  Dan Stinebring – Intro to single-station scintillation arcs

11:30  Dana Simard – Intro, scintillation arcs with multiple stations

 

12:00 - 1:00  MPIfR Colloquium  - Marten van Kerkwijk (AIFA Lecture Hall - Rm 0.012)

 

1:00 - 2:00  Lunch Break

 

Parabolic Arcs I

2:00  Bill Coles – Anisotropy in Weak and Strong Scintillation

2:30  Barney Rickett  - The Morphology of Scintillation Arcs: Observations and Theory

2:50  Dan Stinebring – Frequency Dependence of Scintillation Arcs

3:10  Discussion

 

3:30  Coffee Break

 

Parabolic Arcs, cont.

4:00  Mikhail Popov – Compact Structures of interstellar plasma in the Galaxy revealed by RadioAstron

4:30  Barney Rickett - Arcs in the Milky Way

 

4:50 – 5:30  Discussion


 


Tuesday

 

9:00   Coffee

 

Impulse Response Function

9:30    Mark Walker – Holography via Dynamic Cyclic Spectroscopy

10:00  Nikhil Mahajan – Using giant pulses to descatter pulsar emission

10:20  Olaf Wucknitz – Mapping and Fitting 1D Scattering Screens

10:40  Tim Sprenger – Beamforming on Interstellar Screens

 

11:00  Coffee break

 

Crab Pulsar

11:30  Rebecca Lin – Giant Pulse Emission Regions of the Crab Pulsar

11:50  Thierry-Serafin Nadeau – Echo Morphology of the Crab Pulsar

12:10  Akanksha Bij – Upward Drift in Crab Giant Pulses

 

12:30  Discussion

 

1:00   Lunch Break

 

FRBs and Special Scattering Environments

2:00 Lina Levin-Preston – The interstellar Medium of the Magellanic Clouds

2:30 Liam Connor - FRBs at low frequencies

2:50 Hsiu-Hsien Lin – CHIME/FRB Detections of Crab’s Giant Pulses with CHIME Holography

3:10 Robert Wharton – Multi-Frequency monitoring of the persistent radio source of FRB121102

 

3:30  Coffee Break

 

Pulsar Emission

4:00  Yogesh Maan – Using scintillation as a tool to search for off-pulse emission from short period pulsars

4:20  Vatsala Srivastava – Characterisation of pulsar emission and timing variabilities

4:40  Luo Jing – Detecting higher-order frequency-dependent time delays using B0329+54’s microstructure

 

5 – 5:30  Discussion



 

Wednesday

 

9:00   Coffee

 

Binaries and Annual Scintillation Rates

9:30    Paulo Freire – Pulsar Binaries: What we can determine from timing

10:00  Daniel Reardon – Solving pulsar binary orbits using scintillation

10:20  Robert Main – Scintillation in PTA Pulsars using LEAP

10:40  Geetam Mall - Arc curvature and scattering variations of J1643-1224

11:00  Coffee break

 

Scintillation Arc Evolution

11:30  Daniel Baker – Precise curvature measurements from the position-position spectrum

11:50  Dana Simard - Monitoring the scattered images of PSR B0834+06 over time

12:10  Ziwei & Yulan - Scintillation arc monitoring with LOFAR and EPTA pulsars

 

12:30  Discussion

 

1:00   Lunch Break

 

2 – 4 “Birds of a Feather” - Hands on Collaboration time (Room 0.02 and 0.01)

 

4-5  Discussion

 

6:30  Conference Dinner at Tuscolo Munster view


 

 

Thursday

 

9:00   Coffee

 

Lensing & DM variations

9:30    Job Feldbrugge - Oscillatory path integrals for radio astronomy

10:00  Artem Tuntstov – Rate annual cycles for two new IDV’s and their implications for scattering plasma

10:30    Stefan Oslowski - Update on J1509+5531 and eclipses of J2051-0827

11:00  Coffee break

 

Lensing & DM variations cont.

 

11:30  Dylan Jow – Effects of wave optics in Gravitational Microlensing

11:50  Dongzi Li -  Current sheet as a model for quasar ESE

12:10  Fang Xi Lin – The curious DM events of J1713+0747

 

12:30  Discussion

 

1:00   Lunch Break

 

Future – new telescopes

 

2:00 Jumei Yao – Pulsar interstellar scintillation study using FAST

2:30 Olaf Wucknitz / Alan Roy – Solar Power Arrays

2:50  Viswesh Marthi - The scattering screens towards PSR B1508+55 - the view from a 10000-km baseline

 

3:10-3:30  Coffee

 

3:30 – 5    Summary Discussion for the Workshop

 


Friday  - Effelsberg Trip

 

9:30   Bus leaves to Effelsberg

 

10:30 - 12:30  Effelsberg tour

 

12:30  Return bus leaves to Bonn