LOFAR surveys meeting

17th - 19th June 2009, Edinburgh, UK

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Links to presentations from Wednesday 17th June can be found via the titles below.

Time	Speaker	Title
Wednesday 17th June		[OPEN to all interested people]

09:00 - 09:30		Registration

09:30 - 10:50		LOFAR project, roll-out status & recent results Chair: George Miley
5 mins	Philip Best	Welcome & meeting overview
20 + questions	Mike Garrett	LOFAR project status, recent results & roll-out
30 + questions	Michael Wise	Status of software comissioning
10 + questions	James Anderson	Long baseline status

10:50 - 11:20		Morning coffee

11:20 - 13:00		LOFAR Key Science Projects Chair: Timothy Garn
20 + questions	Huub Rottgering	Surveys KSP: science goals & project plan
15 + questions	James Anderson	Magnetism KSP: science & synergies with surveys
10 + questions	Eduard Kontar	Solar KSP science
15 + questions	Philip Best	Other KSPs: Transients, EoR & Cosmic Rays

13:00 - 14:00		Lunch

14:00 - 15:40		Scientific prospects Chair: Raffaella Morganti
20 + questions	Gianfranco Brunetti	Cluster studies
15 + questions	Marijke Haverkorn	The Milky Way
15 + questions	Krzysztof Chyzy	Nearby galaxies
15 + questions	Judith Croston	AGN energetics & feedback
15 + questions	Timothy Garn	Star-forming galaxies at high redshift

15:40 - 16:10		Afternoon coffee

16:10 - 17:45		Scientific prospects, commissioning & data access Chair: Philip Best
15 + questions	Isabella Prandoni	Sub-mJy surveys & source populations
15 + questions	David Bacon	Cosmic magnification
10 + questions	Michael Wise	Commissioning progress, plans & the MSSS
15 + questions	Matt Jarvis	Additional commissioning plans of the Surveys team
30 mins		General discussion: MSSS & other commissioning plans

Thursday 18th June	[am: OPEN to Surveys and invited participants; pm CLOSED to Surveys KSP]

09:30 - 09:45	Plenary preparatory session Chair: Philip Best

09:45 - 11:00	Parallel discussions: commissioning survey science Planning for Surveys commissioning: what, who, how & when? Potential for early science with commissioning surveys Star-forming galaxies at moderate and high-z; highest-z radio galaxies; moderate-z AGN; cosmology; lensing (Lecture Theatre) Nearby Galaxies (Management Building) Clusters (Crawford Room) Low-z AGN (C21) Galactic (Villas)

11:00 - 11:30	Morning coffee

11:30 - 13:00	Plenary discussion: MSSS & other commissioning plans Chair: Matt Jarvis Reports from science teams Commissioning overlaps between science teams Commissioning overlaps between Surveys & other KSPs Commissioning priorities

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch

14:00 - 15:30	Parallel discussions within KSP science teams (1) Modifications & prioritisation of Survey strategy Data storage requirements: images or UV data? Science-team-specific topics Highest-z radio galaxies (Lecture Theatre) Galactic (Management Building) Clusters (Crawford Room) Cosmology (C21)

15:30 - 16:00	Afternoon coffee

16:00 - 17:30	Parallel discussions within KSP science teams (2) Moderate-z AGN (Lecture Theatre) Nearby galaxies (Management Building) Lensing (C21)

From 19:30	Workshop dinner Blonde (75 St. Leonards Street, Edinburgh)

Friday 19th June	[CLOSED to Surveys KSP]

09:30 - 11:00	Parallel discussions within KSP science teams (3) Star-forming galaxies at moderate & high z (Lecture Theatre) Low-z AGN (Management Building)

11:00 - 11:30	Morning coffee

11:30 - 13:00	Plenary science team discussions Chair: Huub Rottgering Reports from science teams Overlaps with other surveys Multi-wavelength coverage

13:00 - 14:00	Lunch

14:00 - 15:30	Plenary science team discussions, continued Chair: Peter Barthel

15:30 - 16:30	Technical Working Group meeting Chair: Neal Jackson

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