PROGRAM
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27 May 2018
17:00 23:00 Registration
28 May 2018
9:00 9:20 20 Opening Remarks SOC and LOC
Session 1: Faraday Tomography (chair: Keitaro Takahashi)
9:20 10:00 40 The Power of Faraday Tomography: Basics and Applications to Cosmic Magnetism Study (Shinsuke Ideguchi)
10:00 10:20 20 Modelling Faraday Active Spectra for POSSUM Early Science (Cormac Purcell)
10:20 10:40 20 new Generation Radio Telescopes: Challenges in Instrumental Calibration (Wasim Raja)
10:40 11:20 40 Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 11:40 20 Performance test of QU-fit in cosmic magnetism study (Yoshimitsu Miyashita)
11:40 12:00 20 RESOLVE -- Latest Developments (Philipp Arras)
12:00 12:20 20 Optimum Frequency for Studying the IGMF with Faraday Tomography (Takuya Akahori)
12:20 12:40 20 Discussion on Session 1
12:40 13:40 60 Lunch
Session 2: Cosmology, Large-scale Structure, and Galaxy clusters (chair: Motokazu Takizawa)
13:40 14:20 40 Cosmic Magnetic Fields: A Theorist View of the Nature and Origin (Dongsu Ryu)
14:20 14:40 20 Magnetizing the Cosmic Web during Reionization (Mathieu Langer)
14:40 15:00 20 Thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in the IGM due to the primordial magnetic fields (Teppei Minoda)
15:00 15:20 20 Poster Presentations (poster presenters)
15:20 16:00 40 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 16:20 20 Chiral dynamos and the origin of cosmic magnetic fields (Jennifer Schober)
16:20 16:40 20 Tracing primordial magnetic fields with 21 cm line observations (Kerstin Kunze)
16:40 17:00 20 Towards Exascale simulations of the ICM dynamo with Wombat (Julius Donnert)
17:00 17:20 20 Magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies: a simulation study (Soonyoung Roh)
17:20 17:40 20 Simulations of the polarized sky of the SKA: how to constrain intracluster magnetic fields (Francesca Loi)
17:40 18:00 20 Wavelet RM synthesis versus fitting parametric models for reconstruction magnetic field structure (Dmitry Sokoloff)
18:00 --- Dinner + Discussion at night somewhere
29 May 2018
Session 2: Cosmology, Large-scale Structure, and Galaxy clusters (continue) (chair: Hiroyuki Nakanishi)
9:00 9:40 40 Magnetic fields in Galaxy Clusters and in the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe (Valentina Vacca)
9:40 10:00 20 Synergy between X-ray and low-frequency radio telescopes on particle accelerations in galaxy clusters (Hiroki Akamatsu)
10:00 10:20 20 X-ray and radio observations of the radio relic galaxy clusters 1RXS J0603.3+4214 and RXC J1053.7+5453 (Motokazu Takizawa)
10:20 10:40 20 The Toothbrush Radio Relic: Filaments and Polarisation (Matthias Hoeft)
10:40 11:20 40 Coffee/Tea Break
Session 3: High Energy Magnetism Messengers from Space (chair: Hiroki Akamatsu)
11:20 12:00 40 Fast Radio Burst tomography of the circum- and inter-galactic medium (Vikram Ravi)
12:00 12:20 20 Limits on cosmic magnetic fields from recent cosmic-ray results (Justin Bray)
12:20 12:40 20 Discussion on Session 2 and 3
12:40 13:40 60 Lunch
Session 4: Galaxies and AGN (chair: Jamie Farnes)
13:40 14:20 40 Untangling cosmic magnetic fields: Applications of broadband radio spectro-polarimetry (Shane O'Sullivan)
14:20 14:40 20 The structure of magnetised thermal plasma in the lobes of Fornax A and Centaurus A (Craig Anderson)
14:40 15:00 20 Broadband Investigation of NVSS High Rotation Measure Extragalactic Radio Sources (Yik Ki Ma)
15:00 15:20 20 Broad-band spectropolarimetric observation of high-RM AGN (Alice Pasetto)
15:20 16:00 40 Coffee/Tea Break
16:00 16:20 20 3D Magnetohydorodynamic Simulations of AGN Torus (Yuki Kudo)
16:20 16:40 20 Faraday depolarization effects of the spiral galaxies (Mami Machida)
16:40 17:00 20 Magnetic fields in the halo of spiral galaxies seen edge-on -- as deduced from CHANG-ES (Marita Krause)
17:00 17:20 20 Magnetic field vector maps of nearby spiral galaxies (Hiroyuki Nakanishi)
17:20 17:40 20 Revealing the nature of anomalous arms in NGC 4258 using Faraday Tomography (Sarrvesh Seethapuram Sridhar)
30 May 2018
Session 4: Galaxies and AGN (continue) (chair: Mami Machida)
9:00 9:20 20 On a spin signature in black hole shadow of M87 (Tomohisa Kawashima)
9:20 9:40 20 Numerical Study of Supercritical Accretion onto Black Holes and Neutron Stars (Hiroyuki Takahashi)
9:40 10:00 20 Discussion on Session 4
Session 5: Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way (chair: Mami Machida)
10:00 10:40 40 The Power of Low-Frequencies: Faraday Tomography with LOFAR (Cameron Van Eck)
10:40 11:20 40 Coffee/Tea Break
11:20 11:40 20 Faraday tomography of the Milky Way ISM with GMIMS (Alex Hill)
11:40 12:00 20 Magnetic field of Milky Way by near-infrared polarimetry of Cepheids (Tetsuya Zenko)
12:00 12:20 20 Searching for helical magnetic fields in the Milky Way (Jennifer West)
12:20 12:40 20 The Local Bubble: a magnetic veil to our Galaxy (Marta Alves)
12:40 13:40 60 Lunch
Session 5: Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way (Continue) (chair: Marijke Haverkorn)
13:40 14:00 20 The Power of Zeeman: Mapping Magnetic fields in our Galaxy through masers (Jimi Green)
14:00 14:20 20 Structure of electron density and magnetic fied in the Milkyway Galaxy (Osamu Kameya)
14:20 14:40 20 Uniform fields in Hii regions revealed by GMIMS (Alec Thomson)
14:40 15:00 20 Analytic growth rate of gravitational instability in self-gravitating planar polytropes (Jean-Baptiste Durrive)
15:00 15:40 40 Coffee/Tea Break
15:40 16:00 20 H-alpha Polarization Measurements of Tycho's Eastern Limb with the Subaru FOCAS (Satoru Katsuda)
16:00 16:20 20 On Measuring the Turbulent Magnetic Energy Spectrum in Supernova Remnant by Correlation Analysis of Radio Synchrotron Intensity (Jiro Shimoda)
16:20 16:40 20 Propagation and Structure of Astrophysical Jets by Two-temperature Magnetohydrodynamics (Takumi Omura)
16:40 17:00 20 Faraday Tomography of the SS433 Jet Terminal Region (Haruka Sakemi)
17:00 17:20 20 Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of a Plunging Black Hole into a Molecular Cloud (Mariko Nomura)
17:20 17:40 20 Discussion on Session 5
17:40 --- Dinner + Discussion at night somewhere
31 May 2018
9:00 9:40 40 POSSUM: First Results from Wide Field Polarisation Surveys (Bryan Gaensler)
9:40 10:20 40 The Murchison Widefield Array: Overview and Recent Results (Tessa Vernstrom)
10:20 11:00 40 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 11:40 40 LOFAR MSSS (George Heald)
11:40 12:00 40 The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Science Data Processor Integration Prototype (Jamie Farnes)
12:00 12:40 40 Summary and Discussion (Takuya and Jamie)
12:40 14:00 80 Lunch
POSSUM Users meeting - Early POSSUM data (Survey Group 4: George Heald & Naomi McClure-Griffiths)
14:00 14:30 30 Overview of ASKAP polarisation observations taken so far
14:30 15:00 30 Discussion of data requirements and science outcomes for Early Science
15:00 15:30 30 Discussion of early science papers: process, topics, authors
15:30 16:00 30 Coffee/Tea break
POSSUM Users meeting - Source-finding in polarisation surveys (Survey Group 2: Jamie Farnes)
16:00 16:30 30 Source-finding tools and simulations
16:30 17:00 30 Source-finding data challenge and next steps
POSSUM Users meeting - Commissioning tasks for POSSUM (Survey Group 4: Wasim Raja)
17:00 17:20 20 Introduction to POSSUM Memo 66
17:20 18:00 40 Discussion on tests to be performed during commissioning
18:00 --- Dinner + Discussion at night somewhere
1 June 2018
POSSUM Meeting - POSSUM pipelines, quality control and RM determination (Survey Groups 5 & 8: Cormac Purcell & Jennifer West)
9:00 9:30 30 Overview of the POSSUM data-processing pipeline
9:30 10:00 30 Data validation metrics for polarisation
10:00 10:30 30 Coffee/Tea break
10:30 11:30 30 Parallel sessions
1: Incorporating ideas from this conference on QU-fitting and RM determination (Cormac Purcell)
2: Tutorial on analysing ASKAP data (Craig Anderson & Wasim Raja?)
Survey strategy (Survey Group 3: Craig Anderson)
11:30 12:00 30 Plans for survey tiers leading up to full survey
12:00 12:30 30 Refreshing the science case and plans for full POSSUM
12:30 12:40 10 Summary and synthesis (Bryan Gaensler)
12:40 14:00 80 Lunch
14:00 18:00 240 Tomography Tutorial
2 June 2018
9:00 12:40 220 AIPS & CASA Tutorial
