Programme




Day 1 Monday, 17 February 2014


9:009:15Welcome:  Bernie Fanaroff SKA AfricaSouth Africa
9:159:45Setting the scene:Roger Blandford StanfordUSA


Session 1: The new instruments



9:4510:25Chair: Bernie Fanaroff
The SKA: science, design and status'
Philip DiamondSKA OrganisationUnited Kingdom
10:2510:50Coffee



10:5011:30Chair: Tony Beasley
Alma, its science and synergies with the SKA     
Pierre CoxALMAChile
11:3012:00The Project of FASTRendong NanNational Astronomical Observatories, CASChina
12:0012:30MeerKAT - a progress updateJustin JonasRhodes UniversitySouth Africa
12:3013:20Lunch




Contributed papers:


13:2013:40Chair: Roy Booth
The Very Large Array after the upgrade    
Gustaaf van MoorselNational Radio Astronomy ObservatoryUnited States
13:4014:00The Murchison Widefield Array: Low Frequency Precursor for the SKASteven TingayICRAR - Curtin UniversityAustralia
14:0014:20An overview of ALMA Science VerificationCatherine VlahakisJoint ALMA ObservatoryChile
14:2014:35High resolution science from VLBI in the era of ALMA and the SKA     Anton Zenzus
MPIfR
Germany


Session 2: Cosmology, Cosmic Dawn and Reionisation


14:3515:10
Cosmology with the SKA     
Mario SantosUWC/SKA SA/CENTRA-ISTSouth Africa
15:1015:30Coffee


15:3016:05Chair: Roy Maartens
Reionization and the Cosmic Dawn     
Leon KoopmansKapteyn Astronomical InstituteNetherlands


Contributed papers:


16:0516:20Radio halos in galaxy clusters: A new cosmic probe for SKA and its pathfinders?     Kaustuv BasuUniversity of BonnGermany
16:2016:35Evolution of faint radio sources in the VIDEO-XMM3 field. Kim McAlpineUniversity of the Western CapeSouth Africa
16:3516:50Three dimensional 'Intensity Mapping' of the Universe during the EoR     Marta SilvaCENTRA- IST - University of LisbonPortugal
16:5017:05Studying the epoch of reionization with large-N radio arraysGianni BernardiSKA Africa, Rhodes University \& CfASouth Africa


Day 2 Tuesday, 18 February 2014




Session 3: HI in the Early Universe


9:009:40Chair: Kavilan Moodley
21 cm Cosmology     
Tzu-Ching ChangASIAATaiwan, Province of China
9:4010:10Insights in Galaxy Structure and Evolution from HI Imaging Surveys     Marc VerheijenKapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of GroningenNetherlands
10:1010:40The Wallaby HI survey      Baerbel KoribalskiCSIRO ATNFAustralia
10:4011:10Coffee


11:1011:40Chair: Katherine Blundell
The MeerKAT HI survey (Laduma)      
Sarah BlythUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa


Contributed papers:


11:4011:55Towards complete understanding of 21-cm signal from high redshifts     Anastasia FialkovEcole Normale SuperieureFrance
11:5512:10From Feast to Famine: Understanding Active Transformation in Galaxy Groups     Michelle CluverUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa
12:1012:25CHILES: The COSMOS HI Large Extragalactic Survey     Kelley HessUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa
12:2512:40Insights in galaxy formation from combined ALFALFA 21cm and SDSS survey data     Manolis PapastergisKapteyn Institute/Univ. of Groningen Netherlands
12:4014:00Lunch




Session 4: The role of magnetism


14:0014:35Chair: Luigina Feretti
Rotation Measure Synthesis     
George HealdASTRONNetherlands
14:3515:10Magnetic fields in the large-scale structure of the universeDongsu RyuChungnam National UniversityKorea, Republic of
15:1015:40Clusters: structure and magnetism     Tiziana VenturiInaf, Istituto di RadioastronomiaItaly
15:4016:00Coffee


16:0016:30Chair: Lindsay Magnus
Magnetic science from SKA pathfinders     
Anna ScaifeUniversity of SouthamptonUnited Kingdom


Contributed papers :


16:3016:45Growth of Magnetic Field in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe     Jungyeon ChoChungnam National UniversityKorea, Republic of
16:4517:00Magnetic fields in intergalactic filaments     Gabriele GiovanniniBologna University and IRA/INAFItaly
17:0017:15Galaxy clusters with LOFAR and the SKA     Marcus BruggenUniversity of HamburgGermany
17:1517:30Radio halos in galaxy clusters: update and outlook for future radio surveys     Rossella CassanoINAF-Istituto di RadioastronomiaItaly


Day 3 Wednesday, 19 February 2014




Session 5: Structure formation and the first galaxies (or from gas to Galaxies)


9:009:30Chair: John Conway
AGN, Star Formation, and the Nano-Jy Sky     
Paolo PadovaniESOGermany
9:3010:00AGN and feedback     Raffaella MorgantiASTRON/Kapteyn Institute (Groningen)Netherlands
10:0010:30Extreme starburst galaxies in the early universe     Kotaro KohnoThe University of TokyoJapan
10:3011:00Coffee


11:0011:30Chair: Zhang Chengmin
The FR1- FR2 enigma
Katherine BlundellOxford UniversityUnited Kingdom
11:3012:00Deep Radio Continuum Surveys with the SKA and its precursors     Matt JarvisUniversity of Oxford / University of the Western CapeUnited Kingdom


Contributed papers:


12:0012:15Chair: Baerbel Koribalski
The value of wide radio surveys: Legacy and Serendipity  https://sites.google.com/a/ska.ac.za/ska-2014/SKA2014_Norris.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1
Ray NorrisCSIRO Australia
12:1512:30Radio emission mechanisms in the faint radio sky.Margherita BonziniESOGermany
12:3012:45 Star formation at the edge of the UniverseSalom\'{e} MatosRoyal Observatory of EdinburghUnited Kingdom
12:4513:00High Energy Physics of Blazars with SKA and Other Facilities Along the Spectrum     Ivan AgudoJIVENetherlands
13:0013:15Wide field continuum surveys – extragalactic radio sources and the SKACarole JacksonICRAR - Curtin UniversityAustralia
13:1513:30AERAP - Information session    https://sites.google.com/a/ska.ac.za/ska-2014/SKA2014_Kirrane.pdf?attredirects=0&d=1Declan KirraneAERAPBelgium
13:3014:30Lunch


14:3017:30School for High-school teachers and pupils


18:3020:00Public talk by Jocelyn Bell (Introduced by Zhang Chengmin -SOC  co-chair)




Day 4 Thursday, 20 February 2014




Session 6: Galaxy Evolution


9:009:30Chair: Pierre Cox
A Fascinating View on Galaxy Rotations in the HI Window
Danail ObreschkowUWA/ICRARAustralia
9:3010:00Molecules at high red shift     Ian HeywoodCSIRO Astronomy \& Space Science / Rhodes UniversityAustralia
10:0010:30Starburst Galaxies: Signatures and significance of extreme transformationThomas JarrettUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa
10:3011:00Coffee




Contributed papers:


11:0011:15Chair: Renee Kraan-Korteweg
The COSMOS VLA Radio Survey : past. present and future
Paolo CiliegiINAF - Bologna ObservatoryItaly
11:1511:30Galaxy Evolution in the Virgo Cluster     Bernd Vollmer
University of Strasbourg
France
11:3011:45New Frontiers: Cold Gas in Early-Type galaxies with ALMA and the SKA    Danielle LuceroUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa
11:4512:00The ALMA and Jansky VLA view of massive galaxy formation at z=4.7     Jeff WaggSKA OrganisationUnited Kingdom
12:0012:15A candidate triple super-massive black hole system at intermediate redshiftRoger DeaneUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa
12:1512:30Constraining Radio Source Counts below the Survey Detection Threshold     Jonathan ZwartUniversity of the Western CapeSouth Africa
12:3013:30Lunch




Session 7: The Galaxy and the ISM : (Galactic structure and dynamics)


13:3014:00Chair: Phil Diamond
The Galactic Magnetic Field     
Marijke HaverkornRadboud University NijmegenNetherlands
14:0014:30Interstellar chemistry and physics in the era of Herschel and ALMA     John BlackChalmers University of Technology, Dept. of Earth and Space SciencesSweden
14:3015:00Star formation and circumstellar disks     Andrea IsellaCaltechUnited States
15:0015:30Coffee


15:3016:10Chair: Hideyuki Kobayashi
Maser astrometry and Galactic structure     
Karl MentenMPIfRGermany


Contributed papers:


16:1016:30OH maser astrometry with the SKA     Hiroshi ImaiKagoshima UniversityJapan
16:3016:45Radio and X-ray observations of TeV gamma-ray emitting supernova remnants     Wen Wu TianNAOCChina
16:4517:10Late stages of stellar evolution     Albert ZijlstraUniversity of ManchesterUnited Kingdom
17:1017:30Japanese activity for SKA: a status report of SKA-Japan consortium     Toshihiro HandaKagoshima UniversityJapan
19:3022:00Conference Dinner




Day 5 Friday, 21 February 2014




Session 8: Pulsars, Transients and Extreme Physics


9:009:40Chair: Justin Jonas
Pulsar science with the SKA and its precursors - an overview    
Michael KramerMax-Planck-Institut fuer RadioastronomieGermany
9:4010:20Nuclear Physics at Two Kiloparsecs with Millisecond Pulsars    Scott RansomNational Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)United States
10:2011:00Tests of theories of gravity with radio pulsars     Norbert WexMax Planck Institute for Radio AstronomyGermany
11:0011:30Coffee




Contributed papers:


11:3011:45Chair: Michael Kramer
LOTAAS: The LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey for Pulsars and Fast Transients     
Jason HesselsASTRON / University of AmsterdamNetherlands
11:4512:00Magnetized nuclear matter and its influence on the behaviour of magnetars     Jacobus DienerNational Institute for Theoretical PhysicsSouth Africa
12:0012:15Maximum pulsar mass and structure of neutron-star core  Pawel HaenselNicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre, Warsaw, PolandPoland
12:1513:00Black hole properties from radio astronomical observationsHeino FalckeRadboud University Nijmegen/ASTRON/MPIfR Bonn Netherlands
13:0014:10Lunch


14:1014:45Transient Radio Sources     Patrick WoudtUniversity of Cape TownSouth Africa


Contributed papers:


14:4515:00Chair: Bernie Fanaroff
The Apertif Radio Transient System     
Joeri van LeeuwenASTRON / U. AmsterdamNetherlands
15:0015:15Accessing Gamma Ray Bursts physics through SKA     Giancarlo GhirlandaINAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di BreraItaly
15:1515:30Probing Supermassive Black Hole Growth with SKA Pathfinders     Steve CroftUC BerkeleyUnited States
15:3015:45Resonance effects around Black holes     Jeandrew BrinkNational Institute for Theoretical PhysicsSouth Africa
15:4516:20Summary of the conference: R. Blandford     


16:2016:20End 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.