8:45 - 9:00 | Intro | Intro | Intro | Intro | Student Presentations |
9:00 - 10:00 |
Lecture: Basic Principles of Pulsar Timing (Michael Kramer) |
Lecture: GWs and Sources of PTA-Detectable GWs (Alberto Sesana) |
Lecture: Doing Science with PTAs (David Champion) |
Lecture: Challenges to Detecting Gws wtih PTAs (Jim Cordes) |
Student Presentations |
10:00 - 10:15 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
10:15 - 11:00 |
Practicum: Using TEMPO2 (Marta Burgay) |
Practicum: Combining Multi-Telescope/Multi-Instrument Data Sets (Gemma Jannsen) |
Practicum: Detecting the GWB (Rutger van Haasteren) |
Practicum: Sources of Noise in PTA Data Sets (Ryan Shannon) |
Student Presentations |
11:00 - 12:00 | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Student Presentations |
12:00 - 13:30 | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch | Lunch |
13:30 - 15:00 | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Work on exercise | Proposal Writing (Ben Stappers) |
15:00 - 15:15 | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break | Coffee Break |
15:15 - 16:30 | Solutions, discussion and summary | Solutions, discussion and summary | Solutions, discussion and summary | Solutions, discussion and summary | Science Week Primer (Stappers) |