Programme

		Day 1 Monday, 17 February 2014
9:00	9:15	Welcome:	Bernie Fanaroff	SKA Africa	South Africa
9:15	9:45	Setting the scene:	Roger Blandford	Stanford	USA
		Session 1: The new instruments
9:45	10:25	Chair: Bernie Fanaroff The SKA: science, design and status'	Philip Diamond	SKA Organisation	United Kingdom
10:25	10:50	Coffee
10:50	11:30	Chair: Tony Beasley Alma, its science and synergies with the SKA	Pierre Cox	ALMA	Chile
11:30	12:00	The Project of FAST	Rendong Nan	National Astronomical Observatories, CAS	China
12:00	12:30	MeerKAT - a progress update	Justin Jonas	Rhodes University	South Africa
12:30	13:20	Lunch
		Contributed papers:
13:20	13:40	Chair: Roy Booth The Very Large Array after the upgrade	Gustaaf van Moorsel	National Radio Astronomy Observatory	United States
13:40	14:00	The Murchison Widefield Array: Low Frequency Precursor for the SKA	Steven Tingay	ICRAR - Curtin University	Australia
14:00	14:20	An overview of ALMA Science Verification	Catherine Vlahakis	Joint ALMA Observatory	Chile
14:20	14:35	High resolution science from VLBI in the era of ALMA and the SKA	Anton Zenzus	MPIfR	Germany
		Session 2: Cosmology, Cosmic Dawn and Reionisation
14:35	15:10	Cosmology with the SKA	Mario Santos	UWC/SKA SA/CENTRA-IST	South Africa
15:10	15:30	Coffee
15:30	16:05	Chair: Roy Maartens Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn	Leon Koopmans	Kapteyn Astronomical Institute	Netherlands
		Contributed papers:
16:05	16:20	Radio halos in galaxy clusters: A new cosmic probe for SKA and its pathfinders?	Kaustuv Basu	University of Bonn	Germany
16:20	16:35	Evolution of faint radio sources in the VIDEO-XMM3 field.	Kim McAlpine	University of the Western Cape	South Africa
16:35	16:50	Three dimensional 'Intensity Mapping' of the Universe during the EoR	Marta Silva	CENTRA- IST - University of Lisbon	Portugal
16:50	17:05	Studying the epoch of reionization with large-N radio arrays	Gianni Bernardi	SKA Africa, Rhodes University \& CfA	South Africa
		Day 2 Tuesday, 18 February 2014
		Session 3: HI in the Early Universe
9:00	9:40	Chair: Kavilan Moodley 21 cm Cosmology	Tzu-Ching Chang	ASIAA	Taiwan, Province of China
9:40	10:10	Insights in Galaxy Structure and Evolution from HI Imaging Surveys	Marc Verheijen	Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen	Netherlands
10:10	10:40	The Wallaby HI survey	Baerbel Koribalski	CSIRO ATNF	Australia
10:40	11:10	Coffee
11:10	11:40	Chair: Katherine Blundell The MeerKAT HI survey (Laduma)	Sarah Blyth	University of Cape Town	South Africa
		Contributed papers:
11:40	11:55	Towards complete understanding of 21-cm signal from high redshifts	Anastasia Fialkov	Ecole Normale Superieure	France
11:55	12:10	From Feast to Famine: Understanding Active Transformation in Galaxy Groups	Michelle Cluver	University of Cape Town	South Africa
12:10	12:25	CHILES: The COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey	Kelley Hess	University of Cape Town	South Africa
12:25	12:40	Insights in galaxy formation from combined ALFALFA 21cm and SDSS survey data	Manolis Papastergis	Kapteyn Institute/Univ. of Groningen	Netherlands
12:40	14:00	Lunch
		Session 4: The role of magnetism
14:00	14:35	Chair: Luigina Feretti Rotation Measure Synthesis	George Heald	ASTRON	Netherlands
14:35	15:10	Magnetic fields in the large-scale structure of the universe	Dongsu Ryu	Chungnam National University	Korea, Republic of
15:10	15:40	Clusters: structure and magnetism	Tiziana Venturi	Inaf, Istituto di Radioastronomia	Italy
15:40	16:00	Coffee
16:00	16:30	Chair: Lindsay Magnus Magnetic science from SKA pathfinders	Anna Scaife	University of Southampton	United Kingdom
		Contributed papers :
16:30	16:45	Growth of Magnetic Field in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe	Jungyeon Cho	Chungnam National University	Korea, Republic of
16:45	17:00	Magnetic fields in intergalactic filaments	Gabriele Giovannini	Bologna University and IRA/INAF	Italy
17:00	17:15	Galaxy clusters with LOFAR and the SKA	Marcus Bruggen	University of Hamburg	Germany
17:15	17:30	Radio halos in galaxy clusters: update and outlook for future radio surveys	Rossella Cassano	INAF-Istituto di Radioastronomia	Italy
		Day 3 Wednesday, 19 February 2014
		Session 5: Structure formation and the first galaxies (or from gas to Galaxies)
9:00	9:30	Chair: John Conway AGN, Star Formation, and the Nano-Jy Sky	Paolo Padovani	ESO	Germany
9:30	10:00	AGN and feedback	Raffaella Morganti	ASTRON/Kapteyn Institute (Groningen)	Netherlands
10:00	10:30	Extreme starburst galaxies in the early universe	Kotaro Kohno	The University of Tokyo	Japan
10:30	11:00	Coffee
11:00	11:30	Chair: Zhang Chengmin The FR1- FR2 enigma	Katherine Blundell	Oxford University	United Kingdom
11:30	12:00	Deep Radio Continuum Surveys with the SKA and its precursors	Matt Jarvis	University of Oxford / University of the Western Cape	United Kingdom
		Contributed papers:
12:00	12:15	Chair: Baerbel Koribalski The value of wide radio surveys: Legacy and Serendipity	Ray Norris	CSIRO	Australia
12:15	12:30	Radio emission mechanisms in the faint radio sky.	Margherita Bonzini	ESO	Germany
12:30	12:45	Star formation at the edge of the Universe	Salom\'{e} Matos	Royal Observatory of Edinburgh	United Kingdom
12:45	13:00	High Energy Physics of Blazars with SKA and Other Facilities Along the Spectrum	Ivan Agudo	JIVE	Netherlands
13:00	13:15	Wide field continuum surveys – extragalactic radio sources and the SKA	Carole Jackson	ICRAR - Curtin University	Australia
13:15	13:30	AERAP - Information session	Declan Kirrane	AERAP	Belgium
13:30	14:30	Lunch
14:30	17:30	School for High-school teachers and pupils
18:30	20:00	Public talk by Jocelyn Bell (Introduced by Zhang Chengmin -SOC co-chair)
		Day 4 Thursday, 20 February 2014
		Session 6: Galaxy Evolution
9:00	9:30	Chair: Pierre Cox A Fascinating View on Galaxy Rotations in the HI Window	Danail Obreschkow	UWA/ICRAR	Australia
9:30	10:00	Molecules at high red shift	Ian Heywood	CSIRO Astronomy \& Space Science / Rhodes University	Australia
10:00	10:30	Starburst Galaxies: Signatures and significance of extreme transformation	Thomas Jarrett	University of Cape Town	South Africa
10:30	11:00	Coffee
		Contributed papers:
11:00	11:15	Chair: Renee Kraan-Korteweg The COSMOS VLA Radio Survey : past. present and future	Paolo Ciliegi	INAF - Bologna Observatory	Italy
11:15	11:30	Galaxy Evolution in the Virgo Cluster	Bernd Vollmer	University of Strasbourg	France
11:30	11:45	New Frontiers: Cold Gas in Early-Type galaxies with ALMA and the SKA	Danielle Lucero	University of Cape Town	South Africa
11:45	12:00	The ALMA and Jansky VLA view of massive galaxy formation at z=4.7	Jeff Wagg	SKA Organisation	United Kingdom
12:00	12:15	A candidate triple super-massive black hole system at intermediate redshift	Roger Deane	University of Cape Town	South Africa
12:15	12:30	Constraining Radio Source Counts below the Survey Detection Threshold	Jonathan Zwart	University of the Western Cape	South Africa
12:30	13:30	Lunch
		Session 7: The Galaxy and the ISM : (Galactic structure and dynamics)
13:30	14:00	Chair: Phil Diamond The Galactic Magnetic Field	Marijke Haverkorn	Radboud University Nijmegen	Netherlands
14:00	14:30	Interstellar chemistry and physics in the era of Herschel and ALMA	John Black	Chalmers University of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences	Sweden
14:30	15:00	Star formation and circumstellar disks	Andrea Isella	Caltech	United States
15:00	15:30	Coffee
15:30	16:10	Chair: Hideyuki Kobayashi Maser astrometry and Galactic structure	Karl Menten	MPIfR	Germany
		Contributed papers:
16:10	16:30	OH maser astrometry with the SKA	Hiroshi Imai	Kagoshima University	Japan
16:30	16:45	Radio and X-ray observations of TeV gamma-ray emitting supernova remnants	Wen Wu Tian	NAOC	China
16:45	17:10	Late stages of stellar evolution	Albert Zijlstra	University of Manchester	United Kingdom
17:10	17:30	Japanese activity for SKA: a status report of SKA-Japan consortium	Toshihiro Handa	Kagoshima University	Japan
19:30	22:00	Conference Dinner
		Day 5 Friday, 21 February 2014
		Session 8: Pulsars, Transients and Extreme Physics
9:00	9:40	Chair: Justin Jonas Pulsar science with the SKA and its precursors - an overview	Michael Kramer	Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie	Germany
9:40	10:20	Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars	Scott Ransom	National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)	United States
10:20	11:00	Tests of theories of gravity with radio pulsars	Norbert Wex	Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy	Germany
11:00	11:30	Coffee
		Contributed papers:
11:30	11:45	Chair: Michael Kramer LOTAAS: The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey for Pulsars and Fast Transients	Jason Hessels	ASTRON / University of Amsterdam	Netherlands
11:45	12:00	Magnetized nuclear matter and its influence on the behaviour of magnetars	Jacobus Diener	National Institute for Theoretical Physics	South Africa
12:00	12:15	Maximum pulsar mass and structure of neutron-star core	Pawel Haensel	Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, Poland	Poland
12:15	13:00	Black hole properties from radio astronomical observations	Heino Falcke	Radboud University Nijmegen/ASTRON/MPIfR Bonn	Netherlands
13:00	14:10	Lunch
14:10	14:45	Transient Radio Sources	Patrick Woudt	University of Cape Town	South Africa
		Contributed papers:
14:45	15:00	Chair: Bernie Fanaroff The Apertif Radio Transient System	Joeri van Leeuwen	ASTRON / U. Amsterdam	Netherlands
15:00	15:15	Accessing Gamma Ray Bursts physics through SKA	Giancarlo Ghirlanda	INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	Italy
15:15	15:30	Probing Supermassive Black Hole Growth with SKA Pathfinders	Steve Croft	UC Berkeley	United States
15:30	15:45	Resonance effects around Black holes	Jeandrew Brink	National Institute for Theoretical Physics	South Africa
15:45	16:20	Summary of the conference: R. Blandford
16:20	16:20	End of meeting.

Wednesday afternoon school:

The school for teachers and learners will be conducted in a way suggested by Dr Mary Kay Hemenway, President of the IAU ‘Education’ Division (who will also attend the meeting) in which our research students and postdocs will be encouraged to present their talks also to senior high-school learners in a special session, in such a way that will make the science or the aims of their work comprehensible. A test of the success of these learner presentations will be conducted by a small team led by Jocelyn Bell, who will discuss the papers with the high-school students and assess their degree of comprehension. Both our outreach group and that of SAAO are very keen to help with the high-school exercise, as are the members of the IAU ‘Astronomy for Development’ group.