IPTA Student Week Schedule
June 16-20, 2014
Banff, Alberta
A pdf of the schedule can be downloaded here
If you'd like to get the workshop materials you can go to the nanograv-pire github page and clone them to your own machine
Monday, June 16: Pulsar Timing
- 07:00 Breakfast
- 08:45 Welcome and overview of the Student Week (Ryan Lynch)
- 09:00 Introduction to Pulsar Timing Arrays (Ryan Lynch)
- 10:00 Coffee Break
- 10:15 Pulsar Timing (David Nice)
- 11:30 Afternoon activity preview (Ryan Lynch)
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Activity: Timing pulsars with TEMPO2 (Patrick Lazarus and Ryan Lynch)
- 15:00 Coffee Break
- 17:00 Activity Review (Ryan Lynch)
Tuesday, June 17: General Relativity & PTA Astrophysics
- 07:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 An Introduction to GR and Gravitational Waves (Eliu Huerta)
- 10:00 Coffe break
- 10:15 Astrophysics with Pulsar Timing Arrays (Joe Lazio — remote)
- 11:30 Afternoon activity preview (Delphine Perodin)
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Activity: Understanding the Stochastic Background (Delphine Perodin)
- 15:00 Coffee Break
- 17:00 Activity Review (Delphine Perodin)
- 20:00 Recreational Activities in the Sally Borden Recreation Area
Wednesday, June 18: Detecting Gravitational Waves
- 07:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 Statistical Tools for Data Analysis (Justin Ellis)
- 10:00 Coffe break
- 10:15 Detecting Gravitational Waves with PTAs (Lindley Lentati)
- 11:30 Afternoon activity preview (Justin Ellis)
- 12:00 Lunch Small group discussion on applying for graduate school and life as a graduate student
- 13:30 Activity: Understanding Detection Techniques (Justin Ellis)
- 15:00 Coffee Break
- 17:00 Activity Review (Justin Ellis)
Thursday, June 19: Wide Bandwidth Data Sets
- 07:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 Pulsars across wide bandwidths(Jason Hessels — remote)
- 10:00 Coffe break
- 10:15 Science with Pulsars: Beyond Gravitational Waves (Scott Ransom)
- 11:30 Afternoon activity preview (Michael Lam)
- 12:00 Lunch Small group discussion on applying for postdocs and life after graduate school
- 13:30 Activity: Interstellar Medium Effects and Profile Evolution (Michael Lam)
- 15:00 Coffee Break
- 17:00 Activity Review (Michael Lam)
Friday, June 20: Outreach and Student Presentations
- 07:00 Breakfast
- 09:00 Outreach in the IPTA (Ryan Lynch)
- 10:00 Coffe break
- 10:15 Student Presentations
- 12:00 Lunch
- 13:30 Student Presentations (cont.)
- 14:30 Career panel discussion
- 16:00 Science week previe (Tim Dolch)