Monday 25 June

Topic 1: PTA Status Updates
  • 08:40 - 09:10 PPTA -- Dick Manchester (I)
  • 09:10 - 09:40 NANOGrav -- Maura McLaughlin (I)
  • 09:40 - 10:10 EPTA -- Ben Stappers (I)
10:10 - 10:30 Tea
  • 10:30 - 11:00 Discussion: PTA reports.
Topic 2: From Telescope to Detection
  • 11:00 - 11:30 Calibration - Willem van Straten (I, Remote)
  • 11:30 - 12:00 Dealing with Dispersion Measure - David Nice (I)
  • 12:00 - 12:30 Correcting DM variations using EPTA multi-frequency data- Gemma Janssen (I)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:30 Discussion: Data acquisition and multi-freq, multi-telescope observing.
  • 14:30 - 15:00 Low Frequency oise - Bill Coles (I)
15:00 - 15:30 Tea
  • 15:30 - 16:00 Pulsar intrinsic noise in precision timing - Jim Cordes (I)
  • 16:00 - 16:30 Using cyclic spectroscopy to improve pulsar timing - Dan Stinebring (I)
  • 16:30 - 16:45 Cyclic spectroscopy simulations and analysis of J1713+0747 data -Nipuni Palliyaguru (C)
  • 16:45 - 17:00 Towards real-time cyclic spectroscopy - Glenn Jones (C)

Tuesday 26 June

  • 08:30 - 09:00 Measurement of dispersion measure variations and solar wind effect by
  • millisecond pulsars - Xiaopeng You (I)
  • 09:00 - 09:15 Timing noise analysis of A OGrav pulsars - Delphine Perrodin (C)
  • 09:15 - 09:30 Interpolation and prediction of pulsar timing residuals - Xinping Deng
  • (C)
  • 09:30 - 09:45 Covariances between ISM and Timing Parameters in Millisecond
  • Pulsars - Timothy Dolch (C)
  • 09:45- 09:55 Breaking ews: Removing bias in times of arrival - Stefan Oslowski (C)
09:55 - 10:25 Tea
  • 10:25 - 11:30 Discussion: TOAs to GW Detection, with brief talks by Shannon
  • (pulse shape variation), Cordes (correctibility of ISM effects), and Stappers
  • (Frequency dependent templates)
Topic 3: Data Challenges and Algorithms
  • 11:30 - 12:00 The First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Challenge - Fredrick
  • Jenet (I)
  • 12:00 - 12:30 Data Analysis Challenge for the Ground-Based GW Detectors and
  • Implications for PTAs - Linqing Wen (I)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 - 14:00 A new method to bound the gravitational wave background:
  • applications to the IPTA data challenge and the Parkes pulsar timing array - Ryan Shannon (I)
  • 14:00 - 14:30 Updates on Bayesian PTA data analysis - Rugter van Haasteren (I)
  • 14:30 - 15:00 Stochastic background searches using the optimal statistic - Xavier Siemens (I)
15:00 - 15:30 Tea
  • 15:30 - 16:00 An Overview of Single-Source Gravitational Wave Detection
  • Algorithms for Pulsar Timing Arrays – Justin Ellis (I)
  • 16:00 - 16:15 Search for the gravitational wave memory effect with the Parkes pulsar
  • timing array - Jingbo Wang (C)
  • 16:15 - 16:30 Pulsar timing array data analysis for periodic and near-periodic
  • gravitational wave sources - Xihao Deng (C)
  • 16:30 - 17:15 Discussion: Data Challenges and Algorithms

Wednesday 27 June

Topic 4: Implications of bounds, detections, and when will we detect GWs?
  • 08:30 - 09:00 A OGrav timing and GW limits - Paul Demorest (I)
  • 09:00 - 09:30 Constraints on the cosmic string tension by future PTA experiments - Soritios Sanidas (I)
  • 09:30 - 10:00 When will we detect gravitational waves? - Mike Keith (I)
10:00-10:20 Tea
  • 10:20 - 10:50 Probing supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing array - Alberto Sesana (I)
  • 10:50 - 11:05 The light and gravity of binary supermassive black holes - Sarah Burke Spolaor (C)
  • 11:05 - 11:20 Resolving multiple supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays - Stanislav Babak (C)
  • 11:20 - 11:35 Measuring the evolution of super-massive black hole binaries with
  • pulsar timing arrays - Chiara Mingarelli (C)
  • 11:35 - 11:45 Breaking ews: The gravitational wave signal from binary super-massive black holes does not form an isotropic background - Vikram Ravi (C)
From 13:30 Free afternoon

Thursday 28 June

Topic 5: Other applications of IPTA data sets and new MSPs
  • 08:30 - 09:00 Developing a pulsar time scale - George Hobbs (I)
  • 09:00 - 09:30 Gravity tests and S masses - Ingrid Stairs (I)
  • 09:30 - 10:00 MSPs discovered in recent surveys - Duncan Lorimer (I)
10:00 - 10:30 Tea
  • 10:30 - 10:45 Radio pulsar navigation - Jiang Dong (C)
  • 10:45 - 11:00 Recent results from the Green Bank north celestial cap survey - Ryan Lynch (C)
  • 11:00 - 11:15 The pulsar search collaboratory: discovering pulsars through outreach - Joe Swiggum (C)
  • 11:15 – 11:25 Breaking ews: A millisecond pulsar in a triple system - Ingrid Stairs and Scott Ransom (C)
  • 11:30 - 12:40 Discussion: Other applications, new MSPs, and pulsar surveys
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
    Topic 6: Observing Strategy and Optimisation
  • 13:30 - 14:00 Pointing the PTA toward likely GW hotspots - Andrea Lommen (I)
  • 14:00 - 14:30 Observing strategies for gravitational wave detection with pulsar
  • timing arrays - L. Sam Finn (I)
  • 14:30 - 15:00 The optimal schedule for pulsar timing array observations - KJ Lee (I)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee
  • 15:30 - 15:45 Gravitational wave hotspots - Joseph Simon (C)
  • 15:45 - 17:00 Discussion: Observing Strategy and Optimisation
18:30 - Conference Dinner

Friday 29 June

Topic 7: Future Telescopes and Instrumentation
  • 08:30 - 09:00 FAST - Di Li (I)
  • 09:00 - 09:30 LEAP - Cees Bassa (I)
  • 09:30 - 10:00 The Effelsberg UBB and LOFAR: status and prospects - Joris Verbiest (I)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee
  • 10:30 - 11:00 SKA Pathfinders - Matthew Bailes (I)
  • 11:00 - 11:30 SKA and future telescopes - Scott Ransom (I)
  • 11:30 - 11:45 Changes to the Parkes Telescope – Douglas Bock (I)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
  • 13:00 - 13:20 The IPTA - Dick Manchester (I)
  • 13:20 - 13:45 Getting more IPTA for your Buck - David Champion (I)
  • 13:45 - 15:00 Discussion: IPTA and Future Telescopes/Instrumentation