Soft Copies of the LFRU Talks

 

 

Monday, 8th December 2008

 

0915

A few words of welcome

 

Low-Frequency Surveys and Cosmology

0920 - 0940

A.G. de Bruyn (invited)

The first deep WSRT 150 MHz full polarization observations

 

0940 - 1000

Russ Taylor (invited)

Deep polarization fields

 

1000 - 1020

Ravi Subrahmanyan (invited)

Surveys of low surface-brightness radio sources (ATLBS survey)

 

1020 - 1040

Ue-Li Pen (invited)

21 cm Reionization Search at GMRT 

 

1040 - 1100

Lister Staveley-Smith (contributed)

Galaxy HI Surveys and Evolution with ASKAP

 

 

1100 - 1130 Tea

 

1130 - 1150

Dave Green (contributed)

Deep "Wide-field" GMRT imaging at 610 MHz

 

1150 - 1210

Sandeep Sirothia (contributed)

325-MHz observations of the ELAIS-N1 field using the GMRT

 

1210 - 1230

Jeffrey Peterson (invited)

The Cylinder Radio Telescope

 

1230 - 1250

Tigran Arshakian (contributed)

Exploring the weak magnetic fields with LOFAR

 

1300 - 1430 Lunch and viewing of posters

 

Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen and  OH

1430 - 1500

Nissim Kanekar (invited review)

Absorbing Galaxies

 

1500 - 1520

Neeraj Gupta (invited)

21cm absorbers at intermediate redshifts

 

1520 - 1540

Philip Lah (invited)

HI content of galaxies at intermediate redshifts

 

1540 - 1600

Willem Baan (invited)

OH  MM and ULIRGs at high-z: what can they tell us ? Diagnosing the ISM

 

 

1600 - 1630 Tea

 

1630 - 1700

Marc Verheijen (invited review)

HI observations of galaxies and clusters

 

1700 - 1720

Rabbi Angiras (contributed)

Origin of lopsidedness in Spiral Galaxies

 

1720 - 1740

Prasun Dutta (contributed)

Probing Turbulence in the ISM of Galaxies

HI power spectrum of the spiral galaxy NGC 628

 

 

Tuesday, 9th December 2008

 

Extragalactic Neutral Hydrogen and  OH

0930 - 1000

Erwin de Blok (invited review)

Observing nearby galaxies in HI with THINGS

 

1000 - 1020

Jayaram Chengalur (invited)

Gas and star formation in dwarf galaxies

 

1020 - 1040

Ekta (contributed)

An HI study of SBS 0335-052E and W

 

1040 - 1100

Arunima Banerjee (contributed)

Dark matter halo properties of galaxies deduced from HI vertical scale heights

 

 

1100 - 1130 Tea

 

Extragalactic Radio Sources

1130 - 1200

Martin Hardcastle (invited review)

Radio galaxy physics at low frequencies: lobes, jets and environments

 

1200 - 1220

Lakshmi Saripalli (invited)

Radio galaxies as probes of the large-scale external medium

 

1220 - 1235

Marek Jamrozy (contributed)

A multifrequency study of double-double radio galaxies

 

1235 - 1250

Nithyanandan Thyagarajan (contributed)

Searching for variables in the FIRST survey

 

1250 - 1305

Alain Omont (contributed)

Radio emission and properties of Spitzer-selected z~2 submillimeter galaxies

 

 

1305 - 1430 Lunch and viewing of posters

 

Extragalactic Radio Sources

1430 - 1500

Jeroen Stil (invited review)

Probing magnetic fields in distant spiral galaxies by integrated polarization

 

1500 - 1520

Dharam Vir Lal (contributed)

Low-frequency results for radio sources and the role of GMRT

 

1520 - 1540

K.S. Dwarakanath (contributed)

On the nature of steep-spectrum sources in the VLA 74 MHz survey

1540 - 1600

Mousumi Das (contributed)

Radio emission from AGN in giant LSB galaxies

 

 

1600 - 1630 Tea

 

Clusters of Galaxies

1630 - 1700

Rossella Cassano (invited review)

Large-scale diffuse radio emission from clusters of galaxies

 

1700 - 1720

Tiziana Venturi (contributed)

The GMRT radio halo survey

 

1720 - 1740

Ruta Kale (contributed)

On the nature of diffuse radio emission in Abell 754

 

1740 - 1800

Roberto Pizzo (contributed)

Polarization in and around the Abell cluster 2255

 

 

Wednesday, 10th December 2008

 

Clusters of Galaxies

0930 - 0950

Somak Raychaudhury (invited)

AGN feedback in groups and clusters of galaxies

 

0950 - 1010

Ewan O'Sullivan (contributed)

A joint GMRT/X-ray Study of Galaxy Groups: interactions between AGN and the hot IGM

 

1010 - 1025

Jan M. Vrtilek (contributed)

GMRT observations in the study of AGN feedback in galaxy groups

 

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

 

 

1100 - 1130 Tea

 

Our Galaxy

1130 - 1150

Russ Taylor (invited)

The magneto-ionic  medium

 

1150 - 1210

Subhashis Roy (contributed)

Low-frequency observations towards the Galactic centre

 

1210 - 1230

Nirupam Roy (contributed)

Turbulence in the ISM

 

1230 - 1250

Sabyasachi Pal (contributed)

Multi-wavelength observations of Cygnus X-3 during Giant flare in 2006 May  

 

1300 - 1400 Lunch and viewing of posters

 

Pulsars, Transients and high-energy sources

1400 - 1420

Josep Paredes (invited)

Radio properties of VHE gamma-ray sources

 

1420 - 1435

Atish Kamble (contributed)

Five years of dual-frequency monitoring of GRB030329 afterglow with the GMRT

 

1435 - 1500

Avinash Deshpande (invited review)

Probing mechanism of radio emission from pulsar

 

1500 - 1515

Jayanta Roy (contributed)

 Glitch activity of young pulsar J1833-1034

 

1515 - 1530

Vishal Gajjar (contributed)

Pulsar nulling survey with GMRT - results on J1738-2330

 

1530 - 1545

S. Petrova (contributed)

Mechanisms of the physical connection between the radio and high-energy  emissions of pulsars

 

1545 - 1605

Bhaswati Bhattacharyya (contributed)

Wide-profile drifting pulsars: an elegant way to probe pulsar magnetosphere

 

 

1605 - 1630 Tea

 

1630 - 1650

Jason Hessels (invited)

Pulsars and other fast transients with LOFAR

 

1710 - 1725

Reji Thomas (contributed)

Understanding pulsar emission profiles from geometry and rotation effects

 

1725 - 1740

R.T. Gangadhara (contributed)

Modeling of polarization of radio pulsars

 

1830 - 2030

Cultural Evening

 

 

Thursday, 11th December 2008

  

Sun and Planetary Studies 

0930 - 0950

P.K. Manoharan (contributed)

Radio scintillation imaging of solar wind structures from Sun to Earth

 

0950 - 1010

Prasad Subramanian (contributed)

Constraints on solar coronal turbulence from source sizes of noise storms at 327 MHz

 

1010 - 1030

Anil Bhardwaj (contributed)

Simultaneous interferometer and multi-frequency survey of Jupiter's synchrotron radiation

 

Instrumentation and Techniques-I

1030 - 1100

Sanjay Bhatnagar (invited review)

Calibration and imaging issues at low radio frequencies

 

 

1100 - 1130 Tea

 

1130 - 1150

Divya Oberoi (invited)

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA): design and status

 

1150 - 1210

A.G. de Bruyn (invited)

LOFAR at the start of its roll-out: an update

 

1210 - 1230

Vishambar Pandey (contributed)

LOFAR calibration with BBS

 

1230 - 1250

Peeyush Prasad (contributed)

Dynamic range improvement of GMRT low frequency observations

 

 

1300 - 1400 Lunch and viewing of posters

 

GTAC Session

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

 

 

1600 - 1630 Tea

 

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

 

 

Friday, 12th December 2008

 

0700

Departure for GMRT, Khodad from NCRA, Pune

 

0900

Arrival at GMRT, Khodad

 

 

0900 - 1000 Breakfast

 

Instrumentation & Techniques:-II: GMRT

1040 - 1110

Rajaram Nityananda

GMRT and status of upgrades

 

1110 - 1130

 

N. Udaya Shankar (contributed)

A 50 MHz system for GMRT

 

1050 - 1110

Jayanta Roy (contributed)

GSB: a real-time software backend for the GMRT

 

 

1130 - 1430 Tea + Guided tour of GMRT + Lunch

 

Instrumentation & Techniques:-II: GMRT

1430 - 1450

Harric Vin, Subhrojyoti Chaudhuri (contributed)

Model-driven development of control system software for radio telescopes

 

1450 - 1510

M.V. Panduranga Rao (contributed)

A minimum variance method for problems in radio antenna placement

 

1510 - 1530

Vivek Mohile and Chaitral Purkar (contributed)

Architecture of a generic telescope control and monitoring system

 

1530 - 1550

Mukund Deshpande and Vivekanand Moosani (contributed)

Data analysis products from VO-India 

 

 

1550 - 1620 Tea

 

 

1730 Departure from GMRT, Khodad to NCRA, Pune

 

1930 Arrival at NCRA, Pune