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 |