The 41st Young European Radio Astronomers Conference
University of Manchester/Jodrell Bank Observatory, 18-20 July 2011
Conference schedule
Monday 18 July
Tuesday 19 July
Wednesday 20 July
Monday 18 July - Lovell Room, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester | |
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09:00 - 09:15   Introductory remarks | |
09:15 - 11:00   Stellar | |
Rachael Ainsworth (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Ireland) | AMI-LA radio continuum observations of low mass young stars |
Claudia Agliozzo (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy) | Radio Nebulae around Luminous Blue Variable Stars |
Diane Brookes (University of Birmingham , UK) | Radio Emission from Massive Stars |
Eamon O'Gorman (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) | CO in the Circumstellar Envelope of Betelgeuse with CARMA |
Alejandro Báez Rubio (Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), Spain) | Kinematics of the ionized stellar wind of the massive star MWC349A |
Luke Peck (University College London, UK) | e-MERLIN and the COBRaS legacy Project |
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee | |
11:30 - 13:00   Extragalactic | |
Daniel Lenz (Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Germany) | HI-mass comparison of nearby galaxies (EBHIS and THINGS) |
Susanne Heidenreich (University of Southampton, UK) | Radio maps for the REXCESS cluster sample |
Gabriele Guglielmino (IRA/ASTRON, Italy) | WSRT and LOFAR observations of the Lockman Hole |
Vinodiran Arumugam (University of Edinburgh, UK) | Deep Radio Observations of the Subaru/XMM-Newton Deep Field |
Yaroslav Nayden (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Russia) | Determination of the inhomogeneity of the microwave background maps angular power spectrum |
Haukur Sigurdarson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) | The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in the Bullet Cluster |
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:00   Active Galactic Nuclei I | |
Evgeniya Kravchenko (Pushchino Observatory, Russia) | Luminosity and density evolution of extragalactic radio sources |
Elizaveta Rastorgueva (Metsähovi Radio Observatory, Aalto University, Finland) | Circular polarization of AGN on VLBI scale. New application of gain transfer method |
Rebekka Schmidt (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany) | F-Gamma program: Probing the AGN physics via broad-band radio variability studies |
15:00 - 15:45   Coffee/Poster Session | |
15:45 - 17:15   Star Formation | |
Nichol Cunningham (University of Manchester, UK) | The Molecular Environments of Methanol Maser Sources |
Jabulani Maswanganye (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) | Variability of methanol maser in the massive star formation regions |
Lientjie de Villiers (University of Hertfordshire, UK) | A JCMT HARP survey of molecular outflows associated with 6.7 GHz methanol masers |
Adam Avison (University of Manchester, UK) | Compact HII regions toward Methanol Maser traced sources of Massive Star Formation |
Luke Hindson (University of Hertfordshire, UK) | Radio Observations of the massive star forming region G305 |
Victor M. Rivilla (Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), Spain) | The overall systematic trends in the kinematics of massive star forming regions. Observations of HC3N* in hot cores |
Tuesday 19 July - Jodrell Bank Observatory | |
08:30   Coach pick-up from Lambert Hall | |
10:00 - 11:30   Invited Speakers | |
Professor Ian Morison (University of Manchester, UK) | The story of Jodrell Bank |
Dr. Tom Muxlow (University of Manchester, UK) | e-MERLIN: an update |
Dr. Anita M. S. Richards (University of Manchester, UK) | Science with ALMA |
Dr. Althea Wilkinson (University of Manchester, UK) | Cosmic Microwave Background radiation and the Planck Satellite at Jodrell Bank |
11:30 - 13:00   Tour of Jodrell Bank | |
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch | |
14:00 - 15:30   Instrumentation/Methods | |
Dmitry Duev (Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe, The Netherlands) | VLBI observations of spacecraft with EVN radio telescopes |
Parisa Noorishad (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands) | Application and limitations of redundancy calibration in phased arrays |
André Offringa (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands) | Dealing with LOFAR interference |
Sunelle Otto (Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory, South Africa) | Probing the field of radio astronomy with the SKA and the Hartebeesthoek Radio observatory: an engineer's perspective |
15:30 - 16:00   Coffee | |
16:00 - 17:30   Invited Speakers | |
Professor Michael Garrett (ASTRON, The Netherlands) | LOFAR: Opening up a new window on the Universe |
Professor Rafaella Morganti (ASTRON/Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, The Netherlands) | Gas and radio galaxies: a story of love and hate |
Professor Andrea Lommen (Franklin and Marshall College, USA) | Measuring Einstein's last great legacy: wrinkles in space-time |
Dr. Ben Stappers (University of Manchester, UK) | SKA and its Pathfinders |
18:00 - 20:30   BBQ dinner under the Lovell telescope | |
20:30   Coach pick-up, drop-off at Lambert Hall | |
Wednesday 20 July - Lovell Room, Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester | |
09:00 - 10:30   Active Galactic Nuclei II | |
Gabriele Bruni (IRA-INAF, Italy) | Radio spectra and morphology of Radio-Loud Broad Absorption Line Quasars |
Maciej Ceglowski (Torun Center of Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) | Radio characteristics of Broad Absorption Lines (BAL) quasars |
Jeremy Harwood (University of Hertfordshire, UK) | Determining broad-band spectra of radio galaxies with the EVLA |
Dmitrii Solovyov (Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia) | Searching the giant radiogalaxies in NVSS survey |
Tamela Maciel (University of Cambridge, UK) | Investigating the FR dichotomy through jet evolutionary tracks and environmental interactions |
Marek Szablewski (Torun Centre for Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) | Are core-dominated triple sources concealed double-doubles? |
10:30 - 11:00   Coffee | |
11:00 - 12:30   The Sun/Interstellar Chemistry/Dust/Disks/Planetary Nebulae | |
Artem Koval (Institute of Radio Astronomy, Ukraine) | Solar corona observations at decameter wavelengths |
Anatolij Glyantsev (Pushchino Observatory/Pushchino State University, Russia) | The interplanetary scintillation of the power scintillation sources in the decreasing phase near the minimum of solar activity cycle 23 |
Jorge Abreu Vicente (IRAM, Spain) | [CII] in M33 major axis (HERM33ES) |
Viviana Guzman (LERMA-ENS, France) | H2CO in the Horsehead nebula |
Francesco Trotta (Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy) | Using millimetre observations to constrain variations of dust properties in circumstellar disks |
Lizette Guzman-Ramirez (University of Manchester, UK) | Planetary Nebuale Distances using the Radio Expansion Parallax Technique |
12:30 - 13:30   Lunch | |
13:30 - 14:45   Pulsars | |
Antoine Lassus (LPC2E, France) | High precision pulsar timing at Nançay |
Delphine Perrodin (Franklin and Marshall College, USA) | Spectral Analysis of Timing Noise in NANOGrav Pulsars |
Neil Young (University of Manchester, UK) | Nulling and intermittent pulsars |
Cherry Ng (Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Germany) | The High Time Resolution Universe Legacy Survey |
Dan Thornton (University of Manchester, UK) | Binary Pulsar Searching with GPUs |
14:45 - 15:15   Coffee | |
15:15 - 16:15   Plasma Theory/Pulsars/Compact objects | |
Heather Ratcliffe (University of Glasgow, UK) | Plasma radio emission from inhomogeneous collisional plasma |
Elena Nikitina (Pushchino Observatory, Russia) | On the structure of pulsar magnetosphere |
Daria Teplykh (Pushchino Observatory, Russia) | New Data of Radio Emission from Three AXPs |
Franz Kirsten (Argelander-Institut für Astronomie, Germany) | VLBI mapping of M15 - A proper motion analysis |