Program for the science week: June 17 - 21, 2019
International Pulsar Timing Array 2019
| Monday (17 June 2019) | |
| 09:15 | Welcome from LOC and SOC |
| Session 1: IPTA overview and updates from individual PTAs and collaborations Chair: Dick Manchester |
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| 09:30 | The International Pulsar Timing Array: history and initial efforts: Andrea Lommen |
| 09:50 | Status of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves: David Nice |
| 10:10 | The Parkes Pulsar Timing Array project and the Parkes wideband receiver: George Hobbs |
| 10:30 | Results from the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array: Daniel Reardon |
| 10:50 | Updates from the European Pulsar Timing Array: Golam Shaifullah |
| 11:10 | MeerKAT update: Sarah Buchner |
| Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:50 | |
| 11:50 | The MeerTime Pulsar Timing Array Project: Ryan Shannon |
| 12:10 | Update on Indian Pulsar Timing Array Experiment: Bhal Chandra Joshi |
| 12:30 | Current status of Chinese pulsar timing array: Kejia Lee |
| 12:50 | Report from the IPTA student week: Avishek Basu |
| 13:10 | |
| Lunch Break 13:30 - 14:45 | |
| Session 2: Diversity and Inclusion session (Discussion Session) 14:45 - 16:00 Chair: Thankful Cromartie |
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| Coffee Break 16:00 - 16:20 | |
| Session 3: PTA Sources Chair: Chiara Mingarelli |
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| 16:20 | Search for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in Spheroidal Post-Merger Galaxies: Gregory Walsh |
| 16:40 | Effect of Black Hole Spin on Christodoulou Memory: Ashok Choudhary |
| 17:00 | The unambiguous identification of supermassive binary black hole candidates from quasar light curves: Xingjiang Zhu |
| 17:20 | Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: Sarah Vigeland (invited) |
| 17:40 | Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Electromagnetic Observations: Maria Charisi ( invited) |
| Departure for IISER GH 18:15 | |
| Tuesday (18 June 2019) | |
| Session 4: Gravitational Wave Detection : Techniques I Chair: George Hobbs |
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| 09:30 | Searching for Galactic Bursts with Memory in Terzan 5: Paul Brook |
| 09:50 | Pulsar Timing Residuals due to Black Hole Binaries in Relativistic eccentric orbits: Abhimanyu Susobhanan |
| 10:10 | Modeling PTA response to inspiral GWs from spinning Black Hole Binaries in eccentric orbits: Lankeshwar Dey |
| 10:30 | Study of detection method for ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves with realistic pulsar spin-down rates: Shinnosuke Hisano |
| 10:50 | Probing axions with pulsar timing arrays: Ryo Kato |
| 11:10 | Estimating Scattering from Wideband Pulsar Observations: Timothy Pennucci |
| Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:50 | |
| Session 5: Updates from IPTA working groups Chair: Andrea Lommen |
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| 11:50 | Status of IPTA DR2 (Joint update from the data combination working group and timing working group) : Scott Ransom |
| 12:10 | Cyber-I and EPO: Nathaniel Garver-Daniels |
| 12:30 | Update of the IPTA MDC Working Group: Siyuan Chen |
| 12:50 | Gravitational wave working group: Chiara Mingarelli |
| 13:10 | Group Photograph |
| Lunch Break 13:30 - 14:45 | |
| Session 6: On bringing together Emerging and Established PTAs ( Discussion Session) 14:45 – 15:45 Chair: Andrea Possenti |
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| Coffee Break 15:45 - 16:00 | |
| Session 7: Impacts of solar system and ISM effects on PTAs Chair: Siyuan Chen |
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| 16:00 | Long-term evolution of solar wind and its effects on pulsar studies: P. K. Manoharan (invited) |
| 16:20 | ISM propagation delays - the way forward: Dan Stinebring (invited) |
| 16:40 | Impacts of planetary ephemerides on Pulsar Timing Arrays results using INPOP17a data: Aurélien Chalumeau |
| 17:00 | The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Monitoring Interstellar Scattering Delays: Jacob Turner |
| 17:20 | The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Polarimetry Calibration and Rotation Measure Variations: Haley Wahl |
| 17:40 | High-precision DM Measurements of Southern MSPs with the MWA: Dilpreet Kaur |
| Departure for IISER GH 18:15 | |
| Wednesday (19 June 2019) | |
| Session 8: Noise sources in PTAs Chair: Natalia Lewandowska |
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| 09:30 | Long term profile stability and implications on pulsars timing: Prajwal Padmanabh |
| 09:50 | J2124-3358: Mode changes studies using uGMRT observations: Arpita Choudhary |
| 10:10 | Model selection for spin noise in pulsar timing arrays: Boris Goncharov |
| 10:30 | Characterising Pulsar Noise on Various Timescales: Aditya Parthasarathy |
| 10:50 | Are clock comparison methods useful for PTAs?: Siyuan Chen (invited) |
| 11:10 | Predicting the Performance of Future PTAs Through Population Synthesis: Cohen Tyler |
| Coffee Break 11:30 - 11:50 | |
| Session 9: Hecto and milli hertz GW Astronomy Chair: A. Gopakumar |
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| 11:50 | The LIGO-Virgo menagerie of compact object binaries: Sukanta Bose (invited) |
| 12:10 | LISA : observing gravitational waves from space: Antoine Petiteau (invited) |
| Session 10: What is detection? (discussion session) 12:20 – 13:30 Moderator: Ryan Shannon |
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| Lunch Break 13:30 - 14:45 | |
| Session 11: non-PTA Pulsar Science (multi-messenger inputs and FRBs) Chair: Scott Ransom |
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| 14:45 | The Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer: Summary of Mission Accomplishments: Natalia Lewandowska (invited) |
| 15:05 | An update on FRB/pulsar surveys using APERTIF: Yogesh Maan |
| 15:25 | Fast Radio Bursts: What we've learned with ASKAP: Ryan Shannon (invited) |
| 15:45 | Radio Pulsar Sub-Populations: Sushan Konar |
| Coffee Break 16:00 - 16:20 | |
| Session 12: IPTA restructuring and internal documents (discussion session) 16:20 – 18:00 Panel: David Nice, Ryan Shannon, Andrea Possenti |
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| Departure for Conference Banquet at Marriott 18:15 Conference banquet : 19:00 Departure for Orchid/IISER GH 21:15 |
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| Thursday (20 June 2019) | |
| Session 13: non-PTA Pulsar Science (close to PTA: Tests of GR, New timing models,..) Chair: Shantanu Desai |
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| 09:30 | Tests of GR using Pulsar Timing: Richard Manchester (invited) |
| 10:00 | Precision timing of pulsars in globular clusters: Scott Ransom (invited) |
| 10:20 | Testing Theories of Gravity with Relativistic Binary Pulsars: Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan |
| 10:40 | ELL1k timing model and its observational implications: A. Gopakumar |
| 11:00 | The dynamical contributions in the rate of change of the orbital and the spin periods of radio pulsars: Dhruv Pathak |
| 11:20 | Using long term scintillation to study binary pulsars: Daniel Reardon |
| Coffee Break 11:40 - 12:00 | |
| Session 14: IPTA Roadmap (discussion session) 12:00 – 13:30 | |
| Lunch Break 13:20 - 14:35 | |
| Session 15: Current and Future Facilities: Chair: Dan Stinebring |
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| 14:35 | Upgraded GMRT and pulsar science: Yashwant Gupta (invited) |
| 15:05 | Uber-LEAP, building the most powerful pulsar telescope: Huanchen Hu |
| 15:25 | The UTMOST Pulsar Timing Programme: Marcus Lower |
| 15:45 | Long-term timing of MSPs with the GMRT interferometer: Jayanta Roy |
| Coffee Break 16:05 - 16:20 | |
| Session 15: Current and Future Facilities(Contd): Chair: Dan Stinebring |
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| 16:20 | An MSP Timing Census with MeerTime: Renee Spiewak |
| Session 16: Pulsar Surveys Chair: James McKee |
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| 16:40 | Pulsars with Upgraded Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope(PUGMARK): Biplab Bijay |
| 17:00 | The Role of Pulsar Surveys in Advancement of Gravitational Science: Manjari Bagchi |
| 17:20 | GMRT High Resolution Southern Sky (GHRSS) survey: Bhaswati Bhattacharyya |
| 17:40 | The Current Status of CRAFTS Pulsar Survey: Weiwei Zhu |
| Departure for IISER GH 18:15 | |
| Friday (21 June 2019) | |
| Session 17: non-PTA Pulsar Science (far from PTA: Internal Structure) Chair: Timothy Pennucci |
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| 09:30 | A massive millisecond pulsar in the NANOGrav data set: Thankful Cromartie |
| 09:50 | Rapid differentially rotating hot neutron stars within relativistic model: Sarmistha Banik |
| 10:10 | Internal neutron-star physics from the 2016 Vela glitch: Gregory Ashton |
| 10:30 | Pulsar Glitches to Probe the neutron star interior: Avishek Basu |
| 10:50 | Probing double neutron star formation with radio and gravitational-wave observations: Debatri Chattopadhyay |
| Coffee Break 11:10 - 11:30 | |
| Session 18: non-PTA Pulsar Science (far from PTA: Emission) Chair: Manjari Bagchi |
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| 11:30 | Emission Characteristics of the Millisecond Pulsar Population: James McKee |
| 11:50 | Estimating spectral index distribution of MSPs: Kshitij Aggarwal |
| 12:10 | DM Studies of the Crab Pulsar - A Single Pulse Approach: Natalia Lewandowska |
| 12:30 | LOFAR pulsars on P-Pdot: pushing the boundaries: Vladislav Kondratiev |
| Lunch Break 13:00 - 14:30 | |
| Session 19: Ongoing and future analyses (Discussion session)14:30 – 15:30 Chair: Daniel Reardon |
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| Closing remarks | |
| Coffee Break 16:00 - 16:20 | |
| Departure for Public talk 17:30 | |
| 19:00 | Public Talk |
| Departure for IISER GH/Orchid 20:15 | |
| Saturday (22 June 2019) | |
| ** Trip to GMRT ** | |
List of Posters
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