The Metre Wavelength Sky - II

18 Mar 2019, 08:00 → 22 Mar 2019, 21:00 Asia/Kolkata

NCRA-TIFR, Pune

The Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) has recently undergone a major upgrade (the “uGMRT'' project) that has significantly improved its scientific capabilities, opening up a wide range of interesting science areas to the radio community. The first uGMRT results are now beginning to appear and the uGMRT will be formally opened in 2019. March 2019 will also mark the 90th birthday of Govind Swarup, who conceived of, and led, the original GMRT project. To celebrate both of these events, the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (NCRA-TIFR) will host an international conference on radio astronomy in Pune, India, over 18-22 March 2019.

There will be regular scientific talks and posters on four days, 18, 19, 20 and 22 March. March 21 will be a half-day session, beginning in the afternoon and focussed on low-frequency radio astronomy, the upgraded GMRT, and the contributions of Govind Swarup to the field. This will be followed by the conference dinner.

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Monday, 18 March

08:00 Breakfast

08:00 Registration

Inauguration

1 Opening remarks

The ISM of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies

2 HI 21cm studies of nearby dwarf galaxies

jayaram_chengalur.odp

3 Mass models of gas-rich void dwarf galaxies

sushma_kurapati.pdf

4 Diffuse neutral ISM: temperature and turbulence from 21 cm absorption studies

nirupam_roy.pdf

5 Structure and Dynamics of the Neutral Hydrogen in the Interstellar Medium

prasun_dutta.pdf

10:30 Tea break

Algorithms and Techniques

6 Wide-field imaging and calibration issues

daniel_mitchell.pdf

7 Wide-band Mosaic Imaging: The present and the future

sanjay_bhatnagar.pdf

8 Full Mueller AW-Projection : A generalized direction dependent imaging framework

preshanth_jagannathan.pdf

9 Low Frequency Polarimetry with the Very Large Array

rick_perley.pdf

10 LOFAR2.0 - A premier low-frequency array for the 2020's

jason_hessels.pdf

Stars and Exoplanets

11 In Search of Galactic Center Millisecond Pulsars from Steep-Spectrum, Compact Radio Sources

namir_kassim.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

Stars and Exoplanets

12 Magnetic Fields of Extrasolar Planets: Planetary Interiors and Habitability

joe_lazio.pdf

13 Probing the magnetosphere of hot magnetic stars with the uGMRT

Fast Radio Bursts and Transients

14 ASKAP Fast Radio Bursts

shivani_bhandari.pdf

15 Fast Radio Bursts at Metre Wavelengths

jp_macquart.pdf

16 Fast Radio Bursts with the GMRT: Results, new developments

jayanta_roy.pdf

15:55 Tea break

Fast Radio Bursts and Transients

17 The transient radio sky from CHIME/FRB

shriharsh_tendulkar.pdf

18 Metre-wave snapshot spectroscopic imaging studies of weak solar bursts: New insights

Metre-wave snapshot spectroscopic imaging studies of weak solar bursts: New insights

19 GMRT view of the first binary neutron star merger GW 170817/GRB 170817A

resmi_lekshmi.pdf

20 A case study of GW 170817: Connection between binary neutron star mergers and short gamma ray bursts revealed through radio observations

poonam_chandra.pdf

17:55 Snacks and poster viewing

20:00 Dinner

Tuesday, 19 March

08:00 Breakfast

Pulsar Studies

21 The European Pulsar Timing Array

marta_burgay.pdf

22 Probing pulsar scattering properties with the MWA

franz_kirsten.pdf

23 The search and detection new pulsars at 111 MHz

valery_malofeev.pdf

24 uGMRT timing of the eccentric binary millisecond pulsar NGC 1851A

alessandro_ridolfi.pdf

25 The impact of Solar-wind models in pulsar timing

caterina_tiburzi.pdf

10:45 Tea Break

Pulsar Studies

26 Pulsar surveys with the upgraded GMRT

bhaswati_bhattacharyya.pdf

27 Expected imprints of the carousel in multi-frequency pulsar observations

yogesh_maan.pdf

28 Overview of the CHIME/Pulsar system.

arun_naidu.pdf

29 Pulsar Glitches to Probe Neutron Star Interior

30 Probing gravity in the strong-field regime

jason_hessels_aa.pdf

13:00 Lunch break

31 Poster viewing session

Pulsar Studies

32 Scintillometry

ue-li_pen.pdf

33 Plasma lensing birefringence: a magnetic zoo

dongzi_li.pdf

34 Harnessing the Wideband Potential of uGMRT for Interstellar Scintillation Studies

15:35 Tea break

Deep Fields and Surveys

35 Galactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA survey: GLEAM and beyond

natasha_hurley-walker.pdf

36 The Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS)

amy_kimball.pdf

37 Deep uGMRT Band-3 observations of XMMLSS region

38 SUPERMIGHTEE: Joint Exploration of the Deep Sky with uGMRT and MeerKAT

russ_taylor.pdf

39 The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey

timothy_shimwell.pdf

17:55 Snacks and poster viewing

Public Lecture

40 The Square Kilometre Array: An Astronomer's Dream Science Machine

20:00 Dinner

Wednesday, 20 March

08:00 Breakfast

High-redshift HI 21cm studies

41 CHILES; the COSMOS HI Extragalactic Survey

jacqueline_vangorkom.pdf

42 The GMRT HI 21cm survey of the Extended Groth Strip

apurba_bera.pdf

43 The Neutral Hydrogen Content of Galaxies at z ~ 0.75 − 1.45

aditya_chowdhury.pdf

44 Tracing HI in radio AGN: associated absorption from low to high redshifts

raffaella_morganti.pdf

45 HI in intermediate and high-redshift radio AGNs

suma_murthy.pdf

10:55 Tea break

High-redshift HI 21cm studies

46 uGMRT and MeerKAT absorption line surveys

neeraj_gupta.pdf

47 HI absorbers at intermediate redshifts

jnhs_aditya.pdf

48 First results from Apertif

marc_verheijen.pdf

The Epoch of Reionization

49 The LOFAR Epoch of Reionization Key Science Project

leon_koopmans.pdf

12:50 Lunch break

The Epoch of Reionization

50 The EDGES result: Absorption of the CMB by the 21-cm hydrogen line at redshift 17 - An update and future plans

alan_rogers.pdf

51 SARAS-II results

saurabh_singh.pdf

52 On detecting HI 21-cm signal from drift scan observations

akash_patwa.pdf

53 Application of Gaussian Process Regression Analysis on commissioning HERA-47 Array: Foreground modelling and removal

abhik_ghosh.pdf

54 Study of Low Frequency Radio Foregrounds using uGMRT - Applications to Cosmological HI signal extraction

abhirup_dutta.pdf

15:50 Tea break

Non-thermal radio emission

55 Cosmic-ray astronomy with low-frequency radio instruments

justin_bray.pdf

56 Evidence for cosmic ray driven galactic winds

ralf_jurgen_dettmar.pdf

57 The Interaction of Cosmic Rays with Molecular Clouds in the Galactic Center Region

farhad_yusef-zadeh.pdf

58 The Extended Radio Emission around Isolated Galaxies in Voids

mousumi_das.pdf

59 Low Radio Frequency Spatially Resolved Studies of Nearby Galaxies: Magnetic Field

souvik_manna.pdf

18:00 Snacks and poster viewing

20:00 Dinner

Thursday, 21 March

15:30 Tea break

The Low-Frequency Radio Sky

60 Low Frequency Science and Techniques

ron_ekers.pdf

61 Early History of the VLA - Design, Consruction, Commissioning

barry_clark.pdf

62 The upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope

yashwant_gupta.pdf

17:30 High tea

18:00 Special Event "Govind Swarup @ 90 : Celebrating Radio Astronomy in TIFR"

20:15 Conference Dinner

Friday, 22 March

08:00 Breakfast

Active Galactic Nuclei

63 The physics and impact of radio galaxy populations

judith_croston.pdf

64 Signatures of AGN Feedback at z~0?

65 Remnant radio galaxies in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey

marisa_brienza.pdf

66 Restarting phase of the life-cycle of radio galaxies

nika_jurlin.pdf

67 GMRT Discovers the Largest Radio Loud Galaxy/Quasar in the Distant Universe

10:45 Tea break

Active Galactic Nuclei

68 About Radio Outflows in Radio-Quiet AGN

preeti_kharb.pdf

69 GMRT low-frequency study of recently identified DDRGs :

sumana_nandi.pdf

70 Study of Heavily Obscured and Luminous Quasars with Young Radio Jets at Redshifts, z ~ 2

pallavi_patil.pdf

71 Radio spectral ageing in powerful radio galaxies

vijay_mahatma.pdf

72 The Complete Local-volume Groups Sample: The AGN feedback cycle in nearby galaxy groups

ewan_osullivan.pdf

73 A tale of a bent, head-tail radio galaxy

dharam_vir_lal.pdf

13:10 Lunch break

Clusters, Relics, and Halos

74 Insight and perspectives in the study of radio emission in galaxy clusters

tiziana_venturi.pdf

75 Surveys at ultra-low frequencies: a first look at cosmic rays fate in galaxy clusters

76 Searching for Ultra Steep Spectrum Radio Halos with the uGMRT and LOFAR

virginia_cuciti.key

77 Diffuse Radio Emission in ACTPol Clusters

s_p_sikhosana.pdf

78 The Corona Borealis supercluster as seen by LOFAR

alex_drabent.pdf

16:00 Tea break

Clusters, Relics, and Halos

79 A closer look at particle acceleration in galaxy clusters with the Upgraded GMRT

ruta_kale.pdf

80 Diffuse Radio Emission in 'off-state' galaxy clusters.

ks_dwarakanath.pdf

81 Exploring particle (re-)acceleration at low frequencies in merging galaxy clusters

gabriella_di_gennaro.pdf

82 Insights into cosmic magnetic fields from radio relic observations at metre wavelengths

matthias_hoeft.pdf

17:55 Snacks and poster viewing

20:00 Dinner