Provisional Programme

The programme is given below; a PDF of it is available here.

These times can be flexible as required, though we expect speakers to keep to their talks within the allotted length of time!

Tuesday 28th June

Morning:

Session runs from 09:30 to 12:30

09:30 Workshop starts. Welcome (Fallows and Bisi).

09:45 LOFAR Commissioning Update (ASTRON)

10:15 Discussion

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Status of the Solar LOFAR KSP (Gottfried Mann)

11:45 Discussion

12:30 Session closes

Afternoon:

Session runs from 14:00 to 17:00

14:00 Combined observations with LOFAR and GURT/UTR-2 (Roger Karlsson)

14:30 A Progress Report on the Irish LOFAR Station (Peter Gallagher)

15:00 Low Frequency Observations of the 2011 June 7 Event from the Rosse Solar-Terrestrial Observatory (Eoin Carley)

15:15 Coffee Break

15:45 EISCAT 3D and the KAIRA LOFAR Station (Richard Fallows, on behalf of EISCAT 3D)

16:15 Discussion on use of upcoming stations and how they may help the commissioning effort and solar and space weather science.

17:00 Session closes

Informal drinks/get-together in Aberystwyth town and informal discussions.

Wednesday 29th June

Morning:

Session runs from 09:30 to 12:30

09:30 Recent Observations of the Sun Passing Tau A (Christian Vocks)

10:00 Status of the Solar Imaging Pipeline (Frank Breitling)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Discussion

12:30 Session closes

Afternoon:

Session runs from 14:00 to 17:00.

14:00 Status of Interplanetary Scintillation Measurements and the Dynamic Spectrum Pipeline (Richard Fallows)

14:20 Using Observations of IPS for 3-D Tomographic Reconstructions (Mario Bisi)

14:30 Discussion

15:00 Coffee Break

15:30 Imaging and dynamic spectrum pipeline tutorial/demonstrations; Establishing progress and what is still to be done. Possible break-out groups if people are interested.

17:00 Session closes

Evening:

Informal drinks/get-together in Aberystwyth town and informal discussions.

Thursday 30th June

Morning:

Session runs from 09:30 to 12:30

09:30 General discussion on progress so far, next steps, who can work on what etc...

10:45 Coffee Break

11:15 Discussion session resumes. Targeting first-light papers, action points etc.

12:30 Workshop closes

Participants depart