Below is a program from the science week. The slides from the talks are currently being hosted in a github repository. If you’d like to grab them all in one go you can visit https://github.com/ipta/ipta-2012-science-week and either clone the repository or download a zip.
Monday 25 June 2012
Topic 1: PTA Status Updates
Topic 2: From Telescope to Detection
- Calibration – Willem van Straten – pdf
- Dealing With Dispersion Measure - David Nice – pdf,pptx
- Correcting DM Variations using EPTA multi-frequency data – Gemma Jannsen – pdf,pptx
- Low Frequency Noise – Bill Coles – pdf
- Pulsar intrinsic noise in precision timing – Jim Cordes – pdf,ppt
- Using cyclic spectroscopy to improve pulsar timing – Dan Stinebring – pdf,pptx
- Cyclic spectroscopy simulatinos and analysis of J1713+0747 data – Nipuni Palliyaguru – pdf
- Towards real-time cyclic spectroscopy – Glenn Jones – pdf,ppt
Tuesday 26 June 2012
Topic 2: From Telescope to Detection cont.
- Measurement of dispersion measure variations and solar wind effect by millisecond pulsars – Xiaopeng You – pdf,ppt
- Timing noise analysis of NANOGrav pulsars – Delphine Perrodin – pdf,ppt
- Interpolation and prediction of pulsar timing residuals – Xinping Deng – pdf
- Covariances between ISM and Timing Parameters in Millisecond Pulsars – Timothy Dolch – pdf,pptx
- Breaking News: Removing bias in times of arrival – Stefan Oslowski – pdf
Topic 3: Data Challenges and Algorithms
- The First International Pulsar Timing Array Data Challenge – Frederick Jenet
- Data Analysis Challenge for the Ground-Based GW Detectors and Implications for PTAs – Linqing Wen – pdf
- A new method to bound the gravitational wave background: applications to the IPTA data challenge and the Parkes pulsar timing array – Ryan Shannon – pdf,ppt
- Updates on Bayesian PTA data analysis – Rutger van Haasteren – pdf,odp
- Stochastic background searches using the optimal statistic – Xavier Siemens – pdf,key
- an Overview of Single-Source Gravitational Wave Detection Algorithms for Pulsar Timing Arrays – Justin Ellis – pdf
- Search for the gravitational wave memory effect with the Parkes pulsar timing array – Jingbo Wang – pdf,ppt
- Pulsar timing array data analysis for periodic and near-periodic gravitational wave sources – Xihao Deng – pdf
Wednesday 27 June 2012
Topic 4: Implications of bounds, detections, and when will we detect GWs?
- NANOGrav timing and GW limits – Paul Demorest – pdf
- Constraints on the cosmic string tension by future PTA experiments – Sotirio Sanidas - pdf
- When will we detect gravitational waves – Mike Keith
- Probing supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing array – Alberto Sesana – pdf
- The light and gravity of binary supermassive black holes – Sarah Burke Spolaor
- Resolving multiple supermassive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays – Stanislav Babak – pdf
- Measuring the evolutions of super-massive black hole binaries with pulsar timing arrays – Chiara Mingarelli – pdf
- Breaking News: The gravitational wave signal from binary supermassive black holes does not form an isotropic background – Vikram Ravi – pdf,pptx
Thursday 28 June 2012
Topic 5: Other applications of IPTA data sets and new MSPs
- Developing a pulsar time scale – George Hobbs – pdf,pptx
- Gravity tests and NS masses – Ingrid Stairs
- MSPs discovered in recent surveys – Duncan Lorimer
- Radio Pulsar navigation – Jiang Dong – pdf
- Recent results from the Green Bank north celestial cap survey – Ryan Lynch - pdf,odp
- The pulsar search collaboratory: discovering pulsars through outreach – Joe Swiggum
- Breaking News: A millisecond pulsar in a triple system – Ingrid Stairs and Scott Ransom
Topic 6: Observing Strategy and Optimisation
- Pointing the PTA toward likely GW hotspots – Andrea Lommen – pdf,pptx
- Observing strategies for gravitational wave detection with pulsar timing arrays – L. Sam Finn – pdf
- The optimal schedule for pulsar timing array observations – KJ Lee – pdf
- Gravitational wave hotspots – Joseph Simon – pdf,pptx
Topic 7: Future Telescopes and Instrumentation
- FAST – Di Li – pdf
- LEAP – Cess Bassa – pdf
- The Effelsberg UBB and LOFAR: status and prospects – Joris Verbiest – pdf
- SKA Pathfinders – Matthew Bailes
- SKA and future telescopes – Scott Ransom – pdf
Topic 8: Wrap-up