Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will give the keynote address on Saturday morning. Our objective for this conference is to have a mixture of presentations, demonstrations of equipment and poster displays to share observations and projects.
Saturday
September 6th
Session 1
Chair: Andrew Thomas
Welcome and housekeeping
Andrew Thomas
09:00
UK Meteor Beacon
Brian Coleman
09:30
Forward Scattering radar observations of meteors
Mary Fearnside
10:00
Radar and the Birth of Radio Astronomy
Stephen Mullaly
10:30
Tea & Coffee
Horizon Room
Session 2
Chair: Peter East
11:00
Tick, tick, tick pulsating star, how we wonder what you are!
Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell
12:15
How to Catch a Pulsar
Peter East
12:45
Group Photo
Outside visitor centre
13:00
Lunch
Horizon Room
Session 3
Chair: Paul Hearn and Andrew Thomas
14:00
Cosmic Radiation/Space Weather monitoring and instrumentation
Professor Ian McCrea
15:00
Site visits, Demonstrations and workshops
15:30
Tea & Coffee
Horizon room
17:00
The Square Kilometre Array: Big Data and Transformational Science
Dr Chris Pearson
17:45
Timing Pulsar B0329+54 with the historic Dwingeloo Telescope
Dr Tammo Jan Dijkema
18:30
Conference dinner
Site restaurant
Sunday
September 7th
Session 4
Chair: Wolfgang Hermann
09:00
Radar astronomy
Thomas Telkamp
09:30
3D and 4D mapping of the Milky Way
Dr Andrew Thornett
10:00
Novel H-line Radio Telescopes
Dr Asayama Shinichiro
10:30
Tea & Coffee
Horizon room
Session 5
Chair: Stephen Mullaly
11:00
MURMUR: A Predictive Tool for Pulsar Detectability
Mario Amando Natali
11:30
Pulsar Observations using the 9m-Dish in Kiel-Rönne
Herman Fenger-Vegeler
12:00
Water maser observations at 22 GHz
Dr Wolfgang Hermann
12:30
The search for Extraterrestrial life using Radio Astronomy
Barbara Cabrales
13:00
Closing Remarks
Paul Hearn
13:45
Lunch
Horizon Room
14:30
Demonstrations will continue for as long as people want to talk.
