International Pulsar Timing Array Meeting
Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Aug 1-2, 2008
Meeting Program
Friday, 1 August, Learning Center, NAIC
| 09:00-09:10 |
Opening Remarks |
Don Campbell, NAIC Director |
| 09:10-09:15 |
A few comments on the format of the meeting |
Lommen |
| Session 1: Status of the existing collaborations |
| Presentations on status, future direction, available resources (i.e. things that might be useful internationally) and areas of need in each of the 3 collaborations.
Each group should prepare 20 minutes of material and expect many questions. |
| 09:15-10:00 |
EPTA |
Thoreau |
| 10:00-10:45 |
NANOGrav |
Paul Demorest |
| 10:45-11:00 |
Coffee |
|
| 11:00-11:45 |
PPTA |
Manchester |
| 11:45-12:30 |
General Discussion |
Discussion Leader: Lommen |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
Cafeteria |
| Session 2: Techniques for increasing timing precision |
| 14:00-14:40 |
Dealing with Dispersion and Scattering |
Discussion Leader: Stinebring. Contrib: Ryan Shannon/Jim Cordes |
| 14:40-15:20 |
Dealing with Calibration including Polarization |
Discussion Leader: Verbiest |
| 15:20-15:40 |
Coffee |
|
| 15:40-16:20 |
Excising RFI |
Discussion Leader: Stairs |
| 16:20-17:00 |
Understanding clock corrections |
Discussion Leader: Demorest |
| 17:00-17:40 |
Future Instrumentation |
Discussion Leader: McLaughlin |
| 18:00-19:00 |
Happy Hour |
Poolside |
| 19:00- |
Dinner honoring Don Backer’s many contribution to the pulsar timing array on the occasion of his 26+ 1 birthday. |
El Observatorio |
Saturday, 2 August, Learning Center, NAIC
| Session 3: The greater gravitational wave community and how to make a detection |
| 09:00-09:20 |
What GWIC can do for you |
Stan Whitcomb |
| 09:20-09:30 |
The connection between LIGO and the PTA |
Sam Finn |
| 09:30-09:40 |
LIGO's search for the Stochastic Background |
Stefan Balmer |
| 09:40-10:00 |
Panel Discussion |
Whitcomb, Finn, Balmer |
| 10:00-10:25 |
Coffee |
|
| 10:25-11:15 |
PTA decetion techniques being explored |
Discussion leader: Jenet. Contribution: Rutger van Haasteren |
| 11:15-12:00 |
Using and optimizing the multi-observatory detector |
Discussion Leader: Janssen |
| 12:00-12:30 |
A pulsar telescope for the future |
Discussion Leader: Ransom |
| 12:30-14:00 |
Lunch |
Catered in, SOC will meet over this lunch to discuss possible adjustments of the last session |
| Session 4: Where do we go from here? |
| 14:00-14:45 |
Should observing schedules be changed with the international observing schedule in mind? |
Discussion Leader: Lorimer |
| 14:45-15:30 |
Sharing/Optimization of existing resources (person power, software, hardware) |
Discussion Leader: Lazio |
| 15:30-16:00 |
Coffee |
|
| 16:00-16:45 |
Science projects that we can start right now (designate PI, and some target dates) |
Discussion Leader: Nice |
| 16:45-17:15 |
International Communication (conference calls? future meetings? What is our name? Do we need some sort of chairperson? International Repository of TOAs) |
Discussion Leader: Lommen |
| 17:30-18:30 |
Happy Hour |
Poolside |