A final schedule for the student week is available for download here.

IPTA 2017 Student Week Schedule

09:00 – 09:10 Welcome/Bienvenue à Paris [Gilles Theureau]
09:10 – 10:10 [Lecture]: Introduction to pulsar timing [Kuo Liu]
10:10 - 10:30 Overview of student presentations [Delphine Perrodin]
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break / Undergraduate student meeting [Jeffrey Hazboun]
11:00 – 12:30 [Lecture] Introduction to reference time scales [Gérard Petit, BIPM]
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 [Lecture] The INPOP planetary ephemeris [Agnès Fienga, OCA, Nice]
15:00 – 15:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing I: TOA extraction with PSRCHIVE [Kuo Liu, Stefan Oslowski, James McKee]
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing I: TOA extraction with PSRCHIVE

09:00 -10:30 [Lecture] Post-Keplerian effects in binary systems [Alexandre Le Tiec, LUTh]
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:30 [Lecture + Demo]: Introduction to TEMPO2 [James McKee]
11:30 – 12:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing II: Familiarization with TEMPO2 [James McKee, Lucas Guillemot, Kuo Liu, Stefan Oslowski]
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
12:30 – 13:30 Women’s lunch (CIEP cafeteria)
14:00 – 14:30 /[Activity] Pulsar timing II – TEMPO2
14:30 – 15:30 [Lecture+Demo] Introduction to PINT [Luo Jing]
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing III: Familiarization with PINT [Luo Jing]
20:30 Babyfoot (foosball) tournament

09:00 – 10:00 [Lecture] Introduction to gravitational wave science [Jeffrey Hazboun]
10:00 – 11:00 [Lecture] Astrophysical sources of GW [Alberto Sesana]
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30 [Lecture] Detection of GWs with PTAs [Delphine Perrodin]
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Sources of noise in PTA datasets; Bayesian methods [Lindley Lentati]
15:00 – 15:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing noise [Lindley Lentati, Jeffrey Hazboun]
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 [Activity] Pulsar timing noise

09:00 – 09:45 [Lecture] Data analysis techniques for GW detection [Antoine Petiteau, Paul Baker]
09:45 – 10:30 [Lecture] Interstellar medium, dispersion and scattering effects [Jean-Mathias Griessmeier]
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30 [Lecture] the Galactic central BH and the no hair theorem [Eric Gourgoulhon, LUTh]
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 [Activity] Running GW detection pipelines [Paul Baker, Antoine Petiteau]
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 [Activity] Running GW detection pipelines
17:00 – 17:30 Student presentation preparation and Q&A [everyone]

09:00 – 10:00 [Lecture] Pulsar searches, discovery, confirmation and timing [Peter Gentile]
10:00 – 10:30 Student presentations I
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 [Lecture] Developing PSRCHIVE tools [Stefan Oslowski]
12:00 – 12:30: Student presentations II
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Student presentations III
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Career panel