ISKAF2010
June 10 -14 2010
Assen, the Netherlands
published September 08, 2010
Assen, the Netherlands
published September 08, 2010
Radio astronomy - in its broadest sense from metre to sub-millimetre
wavelengths - is making a major leap forward. Triggered by the efforts
being made towards realising the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a
number of new facilities, or major upgrades of existing facilities,
are coming on-line, bringing new excitement among radio astronomers
and revitalising the interest of the astronomical community in
general.
The fantastic capabilities of these new facilities will revolutionise
the way we do radio astronomy. The use of innovative technology
solutions (including new software approaches and calibration
algorithms) is expected to significantly enhance the performance of
this new generation of radio telescopes. The associated advances in
sensitivity, field-of-view, frequency range and spectral resolution
guarantees that new and exciting science will be conducted. We are now
truly entering a new golden age for radio astronomy. And this is only
the beginning!
The meeting takes its inspiration from the opening of the LOw
Frequency ARray (LOFAR) but there are many other telescopes or
upgrades that are now coming online. These include the E-VLA,
e-MERLIN, e-VLBI, MWA, PAPER, ATA, eSMA, EMBRACE, SCUBA-2, APEX, IRAM,
Yebes and ATCA (CABB). Some of these facilities are now beginning to
produce their first results. This meeting aims to provide an overview
of these first successes and indeed struggles(!), and highlight the
future perspective and longer term goals of our community. These
initial results will give a first taste of the science (and the
challenges) that we will enjoy with the SKA. Several major elements of
new telescopes like MEERKAT, ALMA, ASKAP, APERTIF, LWA, SRT and FAST
are also expected to be producing some initial technical results
around this time - these will also be covered in the programme of the
meeting. In summary, we encourage presentations on results that use
new or recently upgraded telescopes, or results that use new
challenging techniques or address science issues that will be fully
explored by the new generation of radio telescopes.
The meeting is part of a week-long series of events organised around
the opening of LOFAR and the International SKA Forum 2010. The LOFAR
opening will take place on Saturday 12 June, while the Forum is
scheduled on Tuesday 15 June. The (somewhat unusual) schedule of the
"A new golden age for radio astronomy" meeting has been made in order
to give the participants an opportunity to attend all of these events.
On Monday June 14th science funding agencies from around the globe will meet to discuss how they will accommodate the SKA (Agencies SKA Group). On the same day industrial partners will join in a workshop to discuss the opportunities of the SKA, not only for science and industry but also for the society as a whole in the Connect Industry Science and Society Workshop (CISS).
The venue for all of the above meetings will be the luxury resort "Hof van Saksen" located south of the city of Assen.
The absolute climax of the week will be the International SKA Forum on June 15th at the TT-hal in Assen where high level politicians, top scientists, major industries, policy makers and candidate sites for the SKA will meet on ‘SKA beyond Astronomy'.
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| ORAL PRESENTATIONS |
| POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
| ORAL PRESENTATIONS |
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The wide-field imaging with VISTA and the ESO public surveys
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Towards a New Era of Observing Cosmic Magnetic Fields
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Redshift dependence of scintillating AGN
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An update on MeerKAT developments
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Galaxy cluster magnetic fields
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Radio Halos and the importance of future observations at low frequency
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The Heraclitean Universe: New Tools and Exotica from Transient Surveys of the Galaxy and Beyond
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Wide-Field Imaging and Transient Statistics from the ATA 20 cm Survey
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The Golden Age of Radio Astronomy
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Exploiting HI surveys with stacking.
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The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - Phase 1 Design Concept
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Ground-based study of solar system planetary lightning
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The First Station of the Long Wavelength Array
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Early Pulsar Observations with LOFAR
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HI signatures of galaxy evolution
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Cosmological 21cm experiments: Searching for a needle in a haystack
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Polarimetric images with the GMRT
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LOFAR, LEAP and beyond: Using next generation telescopes for pulsar astrophysics
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The HI gas content of galaxies around Abell 370
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The future of VLBI has begun!
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Going Deeper, Wider and Wideband
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The Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transients (CRAFT) survey
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LOFAR - Origins and Hopes
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Current and Future Instrumentation on the 100m Green Bank Telescope
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The latest on Apertif
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Type Ib/c supernovae observations with VLBI
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The status of the FAST project
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The AGN component in deep radio fields
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Magnetic Field Observations with the SMA
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LOFAR and the low frequency Universe
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Deep images at metre-wavelengths
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Galaxy evolution begins at home: GALFA and GASKAP
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e-EVN observations of galactic transients
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Ultra-deep WSRT observations of HI at z=0.2
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Magnetic fields and massive star formation
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The Australian SKA Pathfinder
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Recent LOFAR imaging pipeline results
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Long baseline experiments with LOFAR
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| POSTER PRESENTATIONS |
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The LOFAR Known Pulsar Data Pipeline
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An introduction to the Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA)
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LOFAR & HDF5: Toward a New Radio Data Standard
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The extraordinary FR II microquasar S26 in NGC 7793
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A GPU based Transient Dedisersion Search Engine for CRAFT
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Probing Cosmic Rays in AGN and Clusters of Galaxies using radio observations
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Trumpeting the Vuvuzela: The deepest HI observations with MeerKAT
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Deep GMRT 150 MHz observations of LBDS
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A Simultaneous GBT/Fermi Study of Crab Giant Pulses
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Statistical inversion of the LOFAR EoR data
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Exploring the radio bimodality of QSOs with the Compact Array Broadband Backend (CABB)
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Ultra High Energetic Cosmic Ray and Neutrino Observations with LOFAR and SKA
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Discovery of the Zeeman Effect in the 36 and 44 GHz Class I Methanol Maser Lines with the EVLA
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The case of 3C326: VLA 74 MHz observations during a geomagnetic storm
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Diffuse neutral hydrogen in the Local Universe
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Multi-view VLBI with SKA Pathfinders
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The European Pulsar Timing Array
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The role of the magnetic field in the massive star-forming region W75N.
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The LOFAR Transients Pipeline
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Real-time search for FastRadioTransients
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Measuring Nearby Star Forming Regions with the VLBA
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ASKAP and MeerKAT surveys of the Magellanic Clouds
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Prospects for detecting stellar tidal disruptions with LOFAR
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What is the origin of a diffuse IGM in compact groups?
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