Draft Programme: 2015 IPTA Science Meeting and Supermassive Black Hole Workshop
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Monday 27 July: SMBH Workshop
Morning Chair: Dick Manchester
- 9:00 9:15 Ryan Shannon Welcome
- 9:15 9:35 Ron Ekers Evidence from the radio for supermassive black holes
- 9:35 9:55 Dustin Madison Detecting gravitational waves with pulsar timing arrays
- 9:55 10:15 Alberto Sesana Gravitational wave signatures of SMBH binaries detectable by pulsar timing arrays
- 10:15 10:30 Hannah Middleton Implications of limits for galaxy merger rate
- 10:30 11:00 Tea
- 11:00 11:25 Anne Medling Observational properties of centres of galaxies
- 11:25 11:50 Sean McWilliams – implications of limits for dynamics of centres of galaxies
- 11:50 12:30 Discussion: with morning speakers (moderated by Ryan Shannon)
- 12:30 14:00 Lunch
Afternoon Char: Marta Burgay
- 14:00 14:25 Chung Pei Ma – SMBHs within 100 Mpc as candidate GW sources
- 14:25 14:45 Alister Graham – Evidence for SMBH binaries and Msigma
- 14:45 15:00 Giulia Savorgnan Blackhole growth in early and late type galaxies
- 15:00 15:15 Jordan Collier Binary SMBH candidates
- 15:1515:45 Afternoon Tea
- 15:45 16:00 Joe Simon Constraining Galaxy Evolution Parameters with PTA Observations
- 16:00 16:20 Ray Norris searching for SMBH binaries in future radio surveys
- 16:20 17:00 Discussion with afternoon speakers moderated by Neil Cornish
TuesdayFriday: IPTA Science Meeting
Tuesday 28 July
- 09:00 09:10 Welcome & IPTA prize presentation
- 09:10 09:30 IPTA project Updates: Clocks (George Hobbs) and Bursts with Memory (Dusty Madison)
- Session: Gravitational waves: Detection and characterization Chair: Elizabeth Ferrara
- 09:30 09:45 Pablo Rosado – Do we expect to see CW sources or the GWB first?
- 09:45 10:00 Yan Wang – Coherent network analysis
- 10:00 10:15 Xingjiang Zhu – Coherent searches for GWs
- 10:15 10:30 Caterina Tiburzi – correlated signals in timing array measurements
- 10:30 11:00 Tea
- 11:00 11:15 Neil Cornish Robust detection for PTAs
- 11:15 11:30 Dusty Madison Nonplanar GWs
- 11:30 11:45 Discussion: Rapid response to electromagnetically identified SMBH binaries (led Sean McWilliams)
- 11:45 12:45 Session: IPTASC Provocative Discussion (led by George Hobbs)
- 12:45 14:00 Lunch
- Session: Data sets Chair: Paul Lasky
- 14:00 14:20 Poster sparkler presentations
- 14:20 14:35 David Nice NANOGrav 9 year data release
- 14:35 14:50 Matthew Kerr PPTA DR2
- 14:50 15:05 Nicolas Caballero EPTA legacy data set and results
- 14:05 15:20 Ryan Shannon A strawman plan for IPTA DR2
- 15:20 15:50 Afternoon Tea
- 15:5016:00 Joris Verbiest (via skype) IPTA DR1
- 16:0017:00 Discussion: Plans for the next IPTA data set (led by Alberto Sesana)
Wednesday 29 July
- 9:00 9:30 Project Updates: Continuous Wave Sources (Justin Ellis) and 1713 global project (Tim Dolch)
- Session: Are our noise measurements consistent? Chair: Gemma Jannsen
- 9:00 9:15 Nicolas Caballero – EPTA noise analysis
- 9:15 9:30 Lindley Lentati – IPTA noise analysis
- 10:00 10:15 Paul Lasky – Timing noise and time to detection
- 10:15 10:30 Jim Cordes – Frequency dependent DM
- 10:30 11:00 Tea
- 11:00 11:15 Megan Jones – NANOGrav DM variations
- 11:15 11:30 Bill Coles – The effects of the solar wind
- 11:30 12:30 Provocative discussion: Do our data sets agree and why not? (Led by Joe Lazio)
- Free afternoon
Thursday 30 July
- 9:00 9:30 Project Updates: Stochastic/Anisotropic background projects (via skype from California)
- Session: How do we incorporate new facilities into the IPTA? Chair: Duncan Lorimer
- 9:30 9:45 Ramesh Bhat – MWA
- 9:45 10:00 Stefan Oslowski LOFAR
- 10:00 10:15 Delphine Perrodin LEAP
- 10:15 10:30 Dick Manchester – Parkes UWB Project
- 10:30 10:45 Ryan Lynch VEGAS backend
- 10:30 11:00 Tea
- 11:00 11:15 Mike Keith – SKA searching
- 11:15 11:30 Gemma Janssen SKA timing
- 11:30 11:45 Willem van Straten SKA/meerKAT timing backends/central signal processors
- 11:45 12:00 KJ Lee FAST/QTT
- 12:15 12:30 Cherry Ng CHIME
- 12:30 14:00 Lunch
- Session: How do we ensure we have effective education and outreach projects? Chair: Cherry Ng
- 14:00 14:15 Lisa Kohne Outcomes of the PIRE project
- 14:15 14:30 Ryan Lynch NANOGrav outreach efforts
- 14:30 14:45 Rob Hollow Pulse@Parkes, internationalizing pulsar education for highschool and highereducation students.
- 14:45 15:15 Provocative Discussion: Outreach coordinating efforts and evaluating our EPO programmes (led by Delphine Perrodin)
- 15:15 15:45 Afternoon Tea
- 15:45 16:00 Rutger van Haasteren IPTA isotropic GWB project (via skype from Europe)
- 16:00 16:15 Jeandrew Brink MeerKAT update (via skype from South Africa)
- 16:15 17:00 Provocative Discussion: Observing strategy for current and future timingarray activities? (led by Scott Ransom)
Thursday evening: Conference dinner
Friday 31 July
- Topic: Applications of pulsar timing Chair: Ramesh Bhat
- 9:30 9:45 Roy Smits ARTS backend for Westerbork
- 9:45 10:00 Xiaopeng You Polarimetry of globular cluster pulsars
- 10:00 10:15 Scott Ransom NANOGrav shapiro delays
- 10:15 10:30 David Nice NANOGrav pulsar parameters
- 10:30 11:00 Tea
- 11:00 11:10 Joe Lazio The Bridge
- 11:10 12:30 Breaking news
- 12:3014:00 Lunch
- Topic: What improvements can be made to timing? Chair: Megan deCesar
- 14:00 14:15 Lindley Lentati – Profiledomain timing
- 14:15 14:30 Matthew Kerr RFI zapping
- 14:30 14:45 George Hobbs – Simulation methods
- 14:45 15:00 Scott Ransom PINT
- Topic: IPTA DR2
- 15:00 15:15 Provisional limits on the GWB with a provisional second IPTA data release.