Soft Copies of the LFRU Talks
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Monday, 8th December 2008
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0915 |
A few words of welcome
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Low-Frequency Surveys and Cosmology |
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0920 - 0940 |
A.G. de Bruyn (invited) The first deep WSRT 150 MHz full polarization observations
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0940 - 1000 |
Russ Taylor (invited)
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1000 - 1020 |
Ravi Subrahmanyan (invited) Surveys of low surface-brightness radio sources (ATLBS survey)
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1020 - 1040 |
Ue-Li Pen (invited) 21 cm Reionization Search at GMRT
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1040 - 1100 |
Lister Staveley-Smith (contributed) Galaxy HI Surveys and Evolution with ASKAP
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1100 - 1130 Tea
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1130 - 1150 |
Dave Green (contributed) Deep "Wide-field" GMRT imaging at 610 MHz
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1150 - 1210 |
Sandeep Sirothia (contributed) 325-MHz observations of the ELAIS-N1 field using the GMRT
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1210 - 1230 |
Jeffrey Peterson (invited)
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1230 - 1250 |
Tigran Arshakian (contributed) |
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1300 - 1430 Lunch and viewing of posters
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Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen and OH |
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1430 - 1500 |
Nissim Kanekar (invited review)
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1500 - 1520 |
Neeraj Gupta (invited) 21cm absorbers at intermediate redshifts
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1520 - 1540 |
Philip Lah (invited) HI content of galaxies at intermediate redshifts
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1540 - 1600 |
Willem Baan (invited) OH MM and ULIRGs at high-z: what can they tell us ? Diagnosing the ISM
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1600 - 1630 Tea
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1630 - 1700 |
Marc Verheijen (invited review) HI observations of galaxies and clusters
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1700 - 1720 |
Rabbi Angiras (contributed) Origin of lopsidedness in Spiral Galaxies
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1720 - 1740 |
Prasun Dutta (contributed) Probing Turbulence in the ISM of Galaxies HI power spectrum of the spiral galaxy NGC 628
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Tuesday, 9th December 2008
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| Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen and OH | |
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0930 - 1000 |
Erwin de Blok (invited review) Observing nearby galaxies in HI with THINGS
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1000 - 1020 |
Jayaram Chengalur (invited) Gas and star formation in dwarf galaxies
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1020 - 1040 |
Ekta (contributed) An HI study of SBS 0335-052E and W
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1040 - 1100 |
Arunima Banerjee (contributed) Dark matter halo properties of galaxies deduced from HI vertical scale heights
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1100 - 1130 Tea
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Extragalactic Radio Sources |
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1130 - 1200 |
Martin Hardcastle (invited review) Radio galaxy physics at low frequencies: lobes, jets and environments
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1200 - 1220 |
Lakshmi Saripalli (invited) Radio galaxies as probes of the large-scale external medium
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1220 - 1235 |
Marek Jamrozy (contributed) A multifrequency study of double-double radio galaxies
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1235 - 1250 |
Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (contributed) Searching for variables in the FIRST survey
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1250 - 1305 |
Alain Omont (contributed) Radio emission and properties of Spitzer-selected z~2 submillimeter galaxies
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1305 - 1430 Lunch and viewing of posters
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| Extragalactic Radio Sources | |
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1430 - 1500 |
Jeroen Stil (invited review) Probing magnetic fields in distant spiral galaxies by integrated polarization
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1500 - 1520 |
Dharam Vir Lal (contributed) Low-frequency results for radio sources and the role of GMRT
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1520 - 1540 |
K.S. Dwarakanath (contributed) On the nature of steep-spectrum sources in the VLA 74 MHz survey |
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1540 - 1600 |
Mousumi Das (contributed) Radio emission from AGN in giant LSB galaxies
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1600 - 1630 Tea
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| Clusters of Galaxies | |
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1630 - 1700 |
Rossella Cassano (invited review) Large-scale diffuse radio emission from clusters of galaxies
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1700 - 1720 |
Tiziana Venturi (contributed)
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1720 - 1740 |
Ruta Kale (contributed) On the nature of diffuse radio emission in Abell 754
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1740 - 1800 |
Roberto Pizzo (contributed) Polarization in and around the Abell cluster 2255
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Wednesday, 10th December 2008
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| Clusters of Galaxies | |
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0930 - 0950 |
Somak Raychaudhury (invited) AGN feedback in groups and clusters of galaxies
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0950 - 1010 |
Ewan O'Sullivan (contributed) A joint GMRT/X-ray Study of Galaxy Groups: interactions between AGN and the hot IGM
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1010 - 1025 |
Jan M. Vrtilek (contributed) GMRT observations in the study of AGN feedback in galaxy groups
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1025 - 1040 |
Joydeep Bagchi (contributed) Diffuse bubble-like radio-halo emission in MRC 0116+111: a fossil remnant of AGN feedback in a distant cluster of galaxies
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1100 - 1130 Tea
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Our Galaxy |
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1130 - 1150 |
Russ Taylor (invited)
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1150 - 1210 |
Subhashis Roy (contributed) Low-frequency observations towards the Galactic centre
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1210 - 1230 |
Nirupam Roy (contributed)
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1230 - 1250 |
Sabyasachi Pal (contributed) Multi-wavelength observations of Cygnus X-3 during Giant flare in 2006 May |
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1300 - 1400 Lunch and viewing of posters
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| Pulsars, Transients and high-energy sources | |
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1400 - 1420 |
Josep Paredes (invited) Radio properties of VHE gamma-ray sources
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1420 - 1435 |
Atish Kamble (contributed) Five years of dual-frequency monitoring of GRB030329 afterglow with the GMRT
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1435 - 1500 |
Avinash Deshpande (invited review) Probing mechanism of radio emission from pulsar
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1500 - 1515 |
Jayanta Roy (contributed) Glitch activity of young pulsar J1833-1034
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1515 - 1530 |
Vishal Gajjar (contributed) Pulsar nulling survey with GMRT - results on J1738-2330
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1530 - 1545 |
S. Petrova (contributed) Mechanisms of the physical connection between the radio and high-energy emissions of pulsars
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1545 - 1605 |
Bhaswati Bhattacharyya (contributed) Wide-profile drifting pulsars: an elegant way to probe pulsar magnetosphere
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1605 - 1630 Tea
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1630 - 1650 |
Jason Hessels (invited) Pulsars and other fast transients with LOFAR
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1710 - 1725 |
Reji Thomas (contributed) Understanding pulsar emission profiles from geometry and rotation effects
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1725 - 1740 |
R.T. Gangadhara (contributed) Modeling of polarization of radio pulsars
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1830 - 2030 |
Cultural Evening
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Thursday, 11th December 2008
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Sun and Planetary Studies |
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0930 - 0950 |
P.K. Manoharan (contributed) Radio scintillation imaging of solar wind structures from Sun to Earth
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0950 - 1010 |
Prasad Subramanian (contributed) Constraints on solar coronal turbulence from source sizes of noise storms at 327 MHz
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1010 - 1030 |
Anil Bhardwaj (contributed) Simultaneous interferometer and multi-frequency survey of Jupiter's synchrotron radiation
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Instrumentation and Techniques-I |
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1030 - 1100 |
Sanjay Bhatnagar (invited review) Calibration and imaging issues at low radio frequencies
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1100 - 1130 Tea
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1130 - 1150 |
Divya Oberoi (invited) The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA): design and status
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1150 - 1210 |
A.G. de Bruyn (invited) LOFAR at the start of its roll-out: an update
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1210 - 1230 |
Vishambar Pandey (contributed) LOFAR calibration with BBS
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1230 - 1250 |
Peeyush Prasad (contributed) Dynamic range improvement of GMRT low frequency observations
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1300 - 1400 Lunch and viewing of posters
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GTAC Session |
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1400 - 1600 |
In this session, there will be a few short presentations of twenty minutes each from a representative sample of users of GMRT describing their experiences, technical issues and possibly giving suggestions to GTAC/NCRA. The speakers are Willem Baan, Avinash Deshpande, Dave Green, Nissim Kanekar, R. Srianand and Tiziana Venturi
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1600 - 1630 Tea
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1630 - 1830 |
A discussion session for about two hours in which members of the radio astronomy community could express their views which are directly relevant to the functioning of GMRT and make suggestions for possible improvements. This session will be co-ordinated by Dipankar Bhattacharyya
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Friday, 12th December 2008
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0700 |
Departure for GMRT, Khodad from NCRA, Pune
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0900 |
Arrival at GMRT, Khodad
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0900 - 1000 Breakfast
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Instrumentation & Techniques:-II: GMRT |
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1040 - 1110 |
Rajaram Nityananda
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1110 - 1130
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N. Udaya Shankar (contributed)
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1050 - 1110 |
Jayanta Roy (contributed) GSB: a real-time software backend for the GMRT
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1130 - 1430 Tea + Guided tour of GMRT + Lunch
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Instrumentation & Techniques:-II: GMRT |
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1430 - 1450 |
Harric Vin, Subhrojyoti Chaudhuri (contributed) Model-driven development of control system software for radio telescopes
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1450 - 1510 |
M.V. Panduranga Rao (contributed) A minimum variance method for problems in radio antenna placement
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1510 - 1530 |
Vivek Mohile and Chaitral Purkar (contributed) Architecture of a generic telescope control and monitoring system
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1530 - 1550 |
Mukund Deshpande and Vivekanand Moosani (contributed) Data analysis products from VO-India
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1550 - 1620 Tea
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1730 Departure from GMRT, Khodad to NCRA, Pune
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1930 Arrival at NCRA, Pune |
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