Program
Abstract book is available here and poster list can be found below4 December
9:00-9:10 | Opening | Naoshi Sugiyama | Nagoya University | |
9:10-9:40 | Telescopes 1 (inv) | Aaron Ewall-Wice | JPL, Dunlap Institute | The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array -- An Overview and Status Update |
9:40-9:55 | Telescopes 2 | Chuneeta Nunhokee | University of California, Berkeley | The Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array: Beam Pattern characterization from observations |
9:55-10:10 | Telescopes 3 | Heiko Heilgendorff | University of KwaZulu-Natal | An Overview of the Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment |
10:10-10:25 | Telescopes 4 | Liju Philip | University of KwaZulu-Natal | Searching for cosmic dawn from the sub-Antarctic : 2018 updates |
10:25-10:40 | Telescopes 5 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | Curtin University | MWA |
10:40-11:00 | break | |||
11:00-11:15 | Telescopes 6 | Joseph Callingham | ASTRON | LOFAR |
11:15-11:30 | Telescopes 7 | C. H. Ishwara Chandra | NCRA | uGMRT |
11:30-11:45 | Telescopes 8 | Juan Mena Parra | McGill University | CHIME |
11:45-12:00 | Telescopes 9 | Randall Wayth | ICRAR/Curtin University | The SKA-Low Aperture Array Verification System |
12:00-12:30 | Telescopes 10 (inv) | Philip Diamond | SKA Organisation | SKA |
12:30-13:45 | Lunch |
13:45-14:15 | Techniques 1 (inv) | Carina Cheng | University of California, Berkeley | From PAPER to HERA: 21cm Power Spectrum Techniques |
14:15-14:30 | Techniques 2 | Hsin Cynthia Chiang | McGill University | Observing the <100 MHz radio sky from the sub-Antarctic |
14:30-14:45 | Techniques 3 | Adam Beardsley | Arizona State University | Fast Radio Imaging with the Long Wavelength Array |
14:45-15:00 | Techniques 4 | Ronniy Joseph | ICRAR - Curtin University, Australia | The Limitations of Redundant and Sky-Based Calibration under Realistic Sky and Telescope Conditions |
15:00-15:15 | sparkler talks | |||
15:15-15:45 | break |
15:45-16:15 | Milky Way 1 (inv) | Takuya Akahori | NAOJ | Unresolved Problems in Cosmic Magnetism |
16:15-16:30 | Milky Way 2 | Xiaohui SUN | Yunnan University, China | Galactic diffuse polarized emission at low frequencies |
16:30-16:45 | Milky Way 3 | Charlotte SOBEY | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science | Probing the Galactic magnetic field using low-frequency Faraday rotation measures towards pulsars |
16:45-17:00 | Milky Way 4 | Joseph Callingham | Netherlands Insitute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) | Stars at low frequencies: The tip of the nearby iceberg |
17:00-17:15 | Milky Way 5 | Natasha Hurley-Walker | Curtin University / International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research | Detecting New SNR with the MWA |
17:15-17:30 | Milky Way 6 | Joanne DAWSON | Macquarie University, Australia | Shining Light on the Dark ISM with the 700-MHz Lines of CH |
5 December
9:00-9:30 | EoR 1 (inv) | Raul Monsalve | McGill University | An Absorption Feature in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum |
9:30-9:45 | EoR 2 | Shintaro Yoshiura | Kumamoto University | Systematic Effects on 21cm-CMB Cross Correlation |
9:45-10:00 | EoR 3 | Akash Kumar Patwa | Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, India | On detecting 21-cm signal from EoR using drift scan data from MWA |
10:00-10:15 | EoR 4 | Matthew Kolopanis | Arizona State University, USA | A re-analysis of PAPER-64 with the simpleDS pipeline |
10:15-10:30 | EoR 5 | Peter Sims | Brown University | Joint estimation of the Epoch of Reionization power spectrum and foregrounds in a Bayesian framework |
10:30-11:15 | break | |||
11:15-11:30 | EoR 6 | Teppei MINODA | Nagoya University, Japan | The limit on the primordial magnetic fields from the EDGES observation |
11:30-11:45 | EoR 7 | Christene Lynch | ICRAR-Curtin/ASTRO3D | First results from the Long Baseline Epoch of Reionisation Survey |
11:45-12:00 | EoR 8 | Bart Pindor | University of Melbourne | Towards a New MWA Limit on the Epoch of X-Ray Heating |
12:00-12:15 | EoR 9 | Nichole Barry | University of Melbourne | The Future of EoR Power Spectrum Analysis |
12:15-12:30 | EoR 10 | Jack Line | ICRAR Curtin University | Simulating MWA observations with OSKAR |
12:30-13:45 | Lunch |
13:45-14:15 | Surveys 1 (inv) | Timothy Shimwell | ASTRON | An update on the LOFAR surveys |
14:15-14:30 | Surveys 2 | Chris Riseley | CSIRO Astronomy & Space Science | The POlarised GLEAM Survey (POGS) |
14:30-14:45 | Surveys 3 | Nick SEYMOUR | ICRAR/Curtin, Australia | Searching for the First Black Holes with the MWA |
14:45-15:15 | Galaxies 1 (inv) | Tsutomu T. TAKEUCHI | Nagoya University, Japan | Formation and Evolution of Galaxies as Viewed from the Cold Side |
15:15-15:30 | Galaxies 2 | Piotrowska Julia | Jagiellonian University | Low - Frequency radio - FIR correlation in NGC 6946 |
15:30-15:45 | Galaxies 3 | Shuntaro YOSHIDA | Nagoya University, Japan | Physical properties of nearby galaxies using GLEAM Survey |
15:45-16:15 | break | |||
16:15-16:30 | Galaxies 4 | Melanie Johnston-Hollitt | Curtin University | Revising the Taxonomy of Diffuse Radio Emission in Galaxy Clusters |
16:30-16:45 | Galaxies 5 | Stefan William DUCHESNE | International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University | A Murchison Widefield Array Phase II follow-up of diffuse, non-thermal cluster emission. |
16:45-17:00 | Galaxies 6 | Nicola Locatelli | University of Bologna | Probing the magnetised cosmic web nearby galaxy cluster Abell 2744 |
17:00-17:15 | Sun & Earth 1 | Paul Hancock | Curtin University | Detecting and tracking space debris with the MWA |
17:15-17:30 | Sun & Earth 2 | Xiang ZHANG | CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Australia | Detection of Meteors and Space Debris with the MWA |
18:00- | Banquet |
6 December
9:00-9:15 | Sun & Earth 3 | Colin Lonsdale | MIT Haystack Observatory | Solar and Heliospheric Studies using the MWA |
9:15-9:30 | Sun & Earth 4 | Christopher Jordan | Curtin University, Australia | Ionospheric analyses with MWA EoR |
9:30-10:00 | Transients 1 (inv) | Christene Lynch | ICRAR-Curtin/ASTRO3D | Searching for low-frequency emission from Star-exoplanet interactions |
10:00-10:30 | Transients 2 (inv) | Mengyao XUE | Curtin University, Australia | Properties of Pulsars at Low Radio Frequencies |
10:30-11:00 | break | |||
11:00-11:15 | Transients 3 | Hiroki KUMAMOTO | Kumamoto University, Japan | Pulsar searching for low frequency radio |
11:15-11:30 | Transients 4 | Naoyuki YONEMARU | Kumamoto University, Japan | Selection of pulsar candidates from radio continuum surveys with artificial neural networks |
11:30-11:45 | Transients 5 | Zhongli Zhang | Shanghai Astronomical Observatory | A preliminary pulsar blind search with MWA incoherent summed data |
11:45-12:00 | Transients 6 | Ramesh BHAT | ICRAR, Curtin University, Australia | Geodetic precession in the binary PSR J1141-6545 |
12:00-12:15 | Transients 7 | Marcin Sokolowski | Curtin University, Australia | No low-frequency emission from extremely bright Fast Radio Bursts |
12:15-12:30 | Closing | Hideyuki Kobayashi | NAOJ |
Poster
1. | Shinnosuke Hisano | Kumamoto University | Possibility of detecting ultra-low frequency gravitational waves with the pulsar spin-down rates |
2. | Kazuhiro Takefuji | NICT | Japanese low frequency observatories |
3. | Gemma Anderson | Curtin University | Rapid follow-up of Gamma-ray Bursts using the upgraded MWA automatic triggering capability |
4. | Kazumasa IWAI | Nagoya University | Radio telescopes at 327 MHz of ISEE, Nagoya University; System and its interplanetary scintillation observations |
5. | Suchetha Cooray | Nagoya University, Japan | Papoulis-Gerchberg Algorithm for Reconstruction of Masked Astronomical Images |
6. | Sohn Bong Won | KASI | Low Frequency Observations of a Radio Loud Dward Galaxy |
7. | Aleksandra Wolowska | Torun Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland | Low frequency emission around compact AGNs |
8. | Kenji KUBOTA | Kumamoto University | Detectability of 21-cm signal during the EoR with 21-cm Lyman-alpha emitter cross-correlation |
9. | Tomoya KANEUJI | Kumamoto University | Verifying halo mass dependence on ionizing photon escape fraction with 21cm-Lyman-alpha emitter cross-correlation |
10. | Torrance Hodgson | Curtin University | The imaging challenges of faint diffuse emission with MWA Phase II |