LOFAR at the International Astronomical Union Meeting

The International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly meeting is happening soon in Beijing, China (a bit like the Olympics of Astronomy in a way - for example it happens every 3 years, the offical language is French, and it brings the worlds best together to showcase their skills - we don't compete for medals though!).

Anyway, LOFAR is going to be well represented at this IAU GA meeting, and below I list some of the talks on LOFAR science I have noticed on the program. LOFAR talks will appear in several different sessions demonstrating the diversity of science which is already coming out of LOFAR:

SpS4: "New Era for studying Interstellar and Intergalactic Magnetic Fields"

IAUS291: "Neutron Stars and Pulsars"

JD1: "The Highest Energy Gamma-Ray Universe Observed with Cerenkov Telecope Array Projects"

and also some of the technical challenges we are learning to face thanks to the data volumes of LOFAR:

SpS5: "Data Intensive Astronomy".

Here's the full LOFAR programme I've found so far:

Mon 20th August

11.20am Anna Sciafe - LOFAR and SKA for Magnetism Science

11.35am Vlad Kondratiev (for Ben Stappers) - New results from LOFAR 

Tue 21st August

11am - Heino Falcke - LOFAR in the era of Cerenkov Telescope Arrays

Wed 22nd August 

4pm Heino Falcke - Accretion and outflow in the local universe - first results from LOFAR

Thur 23rd August 

11.55am Annalisa Bonafede - Radio relics and magnetic field amplification in the ICM

3pm Thijs Coenen - LOFAR commissioning pulsar surveys

3.15pm Heino Falcke - FRATs: Searching for fast radio transients in real time with LOFAR

Fri 24th August

11.00am Joeri van Leeuwen

12.00pm Vlad Kondratiev - Pulsar Emission at the Bottom-End of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Wed 29th August

11am - Panagiotis Lampropoulos - Analysis of LOFAR EoR data on a GPU Cluster

2pm Michael Wise - Exascale Data Management with LOFAR (I)