2016 IPTA Student Workshop
Monday 20 June:
- 09:00 - 09:20 Morning coffee
- 09:20 - 09:30 Opening of IPTA Student Workshop 2016 (Fernando Camilo)
- 09:30 - 09:40 Welcome to the student workshop [Ryan Shannon]
- 09:40 - 10:40 Pulsars and pulsar timing arrays [Nicolas Caballero]
- General introduction to pulsars and pulsar timing arrays
- 10:40 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Introduction to pulsar timing [Megan DeCesar]
- Pulsar timing techniques, profiels, TOAs, timing models
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 13:00 - 15:00 Remote observing with the Parkes telescope [Shannon]
- Remote observation with the Parkes telescope
- 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial: Pulsar timing basics [Caballero]
- Profiles, templates, psrchive, tempo2
Tuesday 21 June:
- 09:00 - 09:30 Morning coffee
- 09:30 - 10:30 Relativity and gravitational waves [Jeandrew Brink]
- Intro to general relativity, gravitational wave production
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Astrophysics of pulsar timing arrays [Pablo Rosado]
- Sources of gravitational waves, their types (backgrounds, single sources, and burst)
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial: General relativity, gravitational waves and astrophysical backgrounds (part I) [Brink/Rosado]
- 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 17:00 Tutorial: General relativity, gravitational waves and astrophysical backgrounds (part II) [Brink/Rosado]
Wednesday 22 June:
- 09:00 - 09:30 Morning coffee
- 09:30 - 10:30 Noise in pulsar timing observations [Michael Lam]
- Sources of stochastic signals in pulsar timing data sets (ISM, jitter, timing noise etc.)
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Advanced techniques in pulsar timing [Lindley Lentati]
- Characterizing stochastic signals, Bayesian methodology
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 13:00 - 15:00 Tutorial: Pulsar noise analysis (part I) [Lam/Lentati]
- 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial: Pulsar noise analysis (part II) [Lam/Lentati]
- 17:30 - 19:30 Workshop dinner
Thursday 23 June:
- 09:00 - 09:30 Morning coffee
- 09:30 - 10:30 Pulsar searching [Peter Gentile]
- Methods for searching for pulsars
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Detecting gravitational waves [Delphine Perrodin]
- Searching for stochastic backgrounds
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 13:00 - 17:00 Tutorial: Gravitational wave detection (part I) [Brian Christy]
- Running GW detection codes
- 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
- 15:30 - 17:30 Tutorial: Gravitational wave detection (part II) [Brian Christy]
Friday 24 June
- 09:00 - 09:30 Morning coffee
- 09:30 - 10:30 Applications of pulsars beyond pulsar timing arrays [Scott Ransom]
- "Other" applications of pulsars
- 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 12:00 Telescopes and instrumentation [Lindsay Magnus]
- How telescopes work
- 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
- 13:00 - 14:30 Tutorial wrap-up
- 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00 - 16:00 Student “lightning” presentations
- Short student presentations, with emphasis on topics not covered during talks and tutorials