This program has been updated on June 11 2013. A pdf copy can be downloaded here.
Abstracts are available here.
Monday, 24 June 2013
- 09:00 - 09:10 Michael Kramer & George Hobbs – Welcome from LOC and SOC
- chair: Michael Kramer
- 09:10 - 09:40 Gemma Janssen - Combining the IPTA data sets
- 09:40 - 10:10 Rutger van Haasteren – Searching for isotropic GW background using the IPTA data
- 10:10 - 10:30 Patrick Lazarus – Solar system studies
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- chair: Sarah Burke-Spoloar
- 11:00 - 11:30 George Hobbs – Pulsar-based time scales
- 11:30 - 12:00 Justin Ellis – Single source searches on IPTA data
- 12:00 - 12:30 Dustin Madison – Search for evidence of GW bursts with memory in IPTA data sets
- 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
- chair: David Champion
- 15:00 - 15:30 Ryan Shannon – Obtaining an upper bound on the GW background using IPTA data
- 15:30 - 15:45 Duncan Lorimer – The Galactic millisecond pulsar population
- 15:45 - 16:00 Xavier Siemens – Detecting stochastic GWs dependent on various PTA properties
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
- 16:30 - 17:30 Discussion: David Champion – Improving the IPTA data sets and defining new IPTA projects
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
- chair: Ben Stappers
- 09:00 - 09:30 Alberto Sesana – Predictions and implications of the expected GW background level with re- spect to the current IPTA data sets
- 09:30 - 10:00 Sarah Burke-Spolaor – Status of and predictions from electromagnetic observations of PTA continuous wave sources
- 10:00 - 10:15 Vikram Ravi – Interesting astrophysical implications of current (I)PTA GW results
- 10:15 - 10:30 Stanislav Babak – A search for monochromatic GW signals from individual sources in EPTA data
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- chair: Xavier Siemens
- 11:00 - 11:10 Bill Coles – Fitting for the quadrupolar signature of a single GW source
- 11:10 - 11:25 Xingjiang Zhu – All-sky blind search for continuous GW signals in PPTA data
- 11:25 - 11:40 Jingbo Wang – An algorithm that can search for GW memory signals (PPTA)
- 11:40 - 11:50 Chiara Mingarelli – Anisotropy in GW background radiation
- 11:50 - 12:00 Stephen Taylor – The first PTA search pipeline for anisotropy in the GW background
- 12:00 - 12:10 Antoine Lassus – Parallel tempering MCMC made for characterization of single source parameters and upper limit on the amplitude of the signal of individual MBHB using EPTA data
- 12:10 - 12:20 Antoine Petiteau – Searching for individual massive black hole binaries in EPTA data: detection and upper limit in frequentist approach (Fstatistic)
- 12:20 - 12:30 Yan Wang – Modified F-statistic for the continuous wave search with particle swarm optimization method
- 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Xavier Siemens – Predictions and implications of the expected GW background level with respect to the current IPTA data sets. With contributions from Alberto Sesana, Vikram Ravi, Sarah Burke-Spoloar and Sean McWilliams
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
- 16:30 - 17:30 Poster slot
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
- chair: Matthew Bailes
- 09:00 - 09:15 David Nice – NANOGrav millisecond pulsar timing observations
- 09:15 - 09:25 Timothy Dolch – A systematic evaluation of deconvolution with cyclic spectroscopy on simulated data
- 09:30 - 10:30 Discussion Willem van Straten – How can the instrumentation for IPTA observations be improved? With contributions from Cees Bassa, Kejia Lee, Dick Manchester and George Hobbs
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- chair: Matthew Bailes
- 11:00 - 11:15 Dan Stinebring – Correcting for interstellar delays
- 11:15 - 11:30 Lina Levin – ISM effects on NANOGrav pulsars
- 11:30 - 12:30 Discussion Jim Cordes – Defining a full set of stats/metrics for “how good is our MSP”
- 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 16:00 Discussion Matthew Bailes – Discussion on RFI
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee
- chair: Delphine Perrodin
- 16:30 - 16:45 Jim Cordes – Timing precision and spin stability in MSPs
- 16:45 - 17:00 Paul Brook – An investigation into the average profile stability for canonical and MSPs
- 17:00 - 17:15 Kuo Liu – Measuring pulse time-of-arrival from broad-band pulsar observations
- 17:15 - 17:30 Tim Pennucci – Developments in wideband timing of millisecond pulsars
Thursday, 27 June 2013
- chair: Maura McLaughlin
- 09:00 - 09:15 Xavier Siemens – Grab-bag results of NANOGrav
- 09:15 - 09:30 Michael Kramer – Grab-bag results of the EPTA
- 09:30 - 09:45 Dick Manchester – Grab-bag results of the PPTA
- 09:45 - 10:10 Kejia Lee – Making the IPTA data challenge more realistic
- 10:10 - 10:30 Chiara Mingarelli – IPTA outreach efforts
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- chair: Gemma Janssen
- 11:00 - 11:15 Maura McLaughlin – New MSPs by GBT/AO for PTA, expectations and outreach from surveys
- 11:15 - 11:25 Siraprapa Sanpa-arsa – Fermi/GBT MSP discoveries
- 11:25 - 11:35 Stefan Oslowski – Timing, polarimetry and physics of J0437-4715
- 11:35 - 11:45 Nipuni Palliyaguru – Single pulse properties of NANOGrav MSPs J0437-4715, J1713+0747
- 11:45 - 12:00 Cees Bassa – The Large European Array for Pulsars
- 12:00 - 12:15 Ramesh Bhat – Observing PPTA pulsars with the MWA
- 12:15 - 12:30 Anna Bilous – Timing of millisecond pulsars at low frequencies with LOFAR
- 12:30 - 15:00 Lunch
- 15:00 - 15:10 Lightning talk
- 15:10 - 16:10 Discussion Andrea Lommen – Near and long term goals for the IPTA
- 16:10 - 16:40 Coffee
- 16:40 - 17:40 Discussion Alberto Vecchio – Validating GW searches and statistical significance of results With contribution from Andrea Lommen and Dick Manchester
Friday, 28 June 2013
- chair: Andrea Lommen
- 09:00 - 09:10 Weiwei Zhu – 19 year timing of J1713+0474 with NANOGrav
- 09:10 - 09:20 Emmanuel Fonseca – A comprehensive study of relativistic gravity using PSR B1534+12
- 09:20 - 09:30 Scott Ransom – Millisecond pulsar in a stellar triple system
- 09:30 - 09:50 Ben Stappers – The role of the IPTA in the SKA pulsar science team
- 09:50 - 10:30 Discussion Joseph Lazio – Before the SKA: state of the IPTA?
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
- chair: George Hobbs
- 11:00 - 11:15 Lindley Lentati – A new Bayesian approach for simultaneously parameterising the pulsar tim- ing model and stochastic processes in TOAs in the form of TempoNest
- 11:15 - 11:30 Rutger van Haasteren – Bayesian common mode mitigation: DM variations and time standards
- 11:30 - 11:45 Xihao Deng – Bayesian nonparametrics analysis to detect and characterize GW bursts and non-Gaussian GWB
- 11:45 - 12:00 Jing Luo – The design of a new completely TEMPO-independent pulsar timing data simulator, based on SPICE (JPL)
- 12:00 - 12:15 Linqing Wen – Angular resolution and directional sensitivity of a PTA to detect individual GW sources
- 12:15 - 12:30 Jonathan Gair – The effect of background discreteness on non-Einsteinian gravitational wave polarization constraints
- 12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
- chair: Jason Hessels
- 14:30 - 14:45 Lightning talk
- 14:45 - 15:45 Discussion Yuri Levin – When will we detect GWs? With contributions from Matthew Bailes, Xavier Siemens and Jim Cordes
- 15:45 - 16:00 Jason Hessels – Concluding remarks
- 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee