EPTA 2019 Sardinia

Benvenuti


Programme


The meeting will start on Wednesday after lunch (in the morning the room will be available for discussion from 9:30 AM till the sessions begin) and last for 3 full days. On Thursday afternoon we will visit the Sardinia Radio Telescope and have a session on site.



Wednesday May 15 (Red room)

Welcome
09:30 - 12:30 Venue open for free discussions
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 - 14:00 Welcome coffee
14:00 - 14:10 Greetings and introduction (A. Possenti)

Telescope update session (Chair: M. Burgay)
14:10 - 14:50 Telescope updates
14:50 - 15:10 LEAP update (K. Liu)

Timing session I (Chair: C. Tiburzi)
15:10 - 15:30 LINIMOSS: integrating the Solar-system ephemeris in pulsar timing analyses (N. Caballero)
15:30 - 15:50 Impact of planetary ephemerides on PTA results using INPOP17a (A. Chalumeau)
15:50 - 16:10 Outlier rejection scheme for EPTA frequency-resolved timing (J. Wang)
16:10 - 16:30 PSR J2222-0137: A nearby binary system with prospects for probing alternative theories of gravity (L. Haase)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

Timing session II (Chair: A. Bak Nielsen)
17:00 - 17:20 Updates on PumaII timing (G. Shaifullah, INVITED)
17:20 - 17:40 MSP profiles (J. McKee)
17:40 - 18:00 uGMRT timing of the eccentric binary millisecond pulsar NGC 1851A (A. Ridolfi)

GW Data Analysis (Chair: A. Bak Nielsen)
18:00 - 18:30 Updates in the realm of GW DA (S. Chen)
Thursday May 16 (Red room)

ISM Session (Chair: A. Corongiu)
09:00 - 09:20 Scintillation studies with GLOW, and possibilities for LEAP (R. Main)
09:20 - 09:40 IISM studies with low-frequency pulsar observations (A. Bak Nielsen)
09:40 - 10:00 On the usefulness of existing Solar-wind models for pulsar timing corrections (C. Tiburzi, INVITED)

InterPTA (Chair: A. Corongiu)
10:00 - 10:30 A Mix of Updates from NANOGrav (T. Pennucci, INVITED)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

Presentation Roadmap (Chair: M. Kramer)
11:00 - 12:30 EPTA organization: presentation of new roadmap and discussion
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:30 Bus to SRT
15:30 - 16:30 Welcome and tour
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

Discussions (Chair: D. Perrodin)
17:00 - 19:00 small team discussions (Timing/DA + junior/senior)
19:30 - 22:30 Social dinner, Su Nuraxi, Sant’Andrea Frius
22:30 - 23:30 Return to Cagliari
Friday May 17 (Red and Green rooms)

Project report from institutions (Chair: S. Chen) (Red room)
09:00 - 10:00 Reports: Theureau, Bak-Nielsen, Possenti, Sesana, Kramer, Bassa
10:00 - 10:30 Summary of small group discussions (Chair: D. Perrodin)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 EPTA projects according to new EPTA organization (roadmap). Chair: M. Kramer
12:30 - 15:00 Lunch break

IPTA policies Discussion (Chair: A. Possenti) (Green room)
15:00 - 16:30 IPTA policies
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Final discussions