Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft Köln 2005 Sept. 26-30
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LOFAR Splinter Meeting H :  LOFAR
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organized by:
Rainer Beck (MPIfR), Marcus Brüggen (IU Bremen) and Heino Falcke (ASTRON)
Location: 
1. Physikalisches Institut, Zülpicher Strasse 77, seminar room

Preliminary Programme (version of Aug. 26)
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Wednesday Sept. 28

 [ 12:00  M. Brüggen: LOFAR (Hot Topic talk within the general program) ]

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13:30  Anton Zensus: Welcome address

13:35  H. Falcke: The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) - Status and Prospects

14:00  R.J.Dettmar: Spiral galaxies seen with LOFAR

14:15  W. Reich: Galactic tomography based on observations with LOFAR 
       and Effelsberg

14:30  A.G. de Bruyn: RM structure in the polarized synchrotron emission 
       from our Galaxy and the Perseus cluster of Galaxies


14:45  Coffee break


15:00  G. Mann: Monitoring of the Solar Activity by LOFAR

15:15  B. Ciardi: Mapping the Reionization Era through the 21cm Emission Line

15:30  C. Vogt: Measuring MHD turbulence using polarized synchrotron 
       emission and its Faraday rotation

15:45  R. Stotzka: GRID Computing at Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe suitable 
       for LOFAR

16:00  Reception in the foyer (sponsored by MPIfR)



Thursday Sept. 29


10:30  H. Röttgering: 150 MHz observations with the Westerbork and GMRT 
       radio telescopes of Abell 2256 and the Bootes field: Ultra-steep
       spectrum radio sources as probes of cluster and galaxy evolution

10:45  M. Hoeft: Radio relics in a cosmological cluster merger simulation

11:00  A. Haungs: Coincident cosmic ray measurements with LOPES and 
       KASCADE-Grande

11:15  A. Horneffer: Detection of radio pulses from cosmic ray air showers 
       with LOPES

11:30  T. Huege: Geosynchrotron radio emission from extensive air showers

11:45  M.A. Brentjens: LOFAR calibration: confrontation with real WSRT data

12:00  V. Malofeev: The Multi-Beam Meter Wavelengths Array at Pushchino

12:15  R. Beck: The Square Kilometer Array (SKA) - Status and prospects

12:30  M. Kramer: The European plans toward the SKA

12:45  R. Beck: Concluding remarks

12:50  End



Posters:

L. Bähren: A first glance at LOFAR: Experience with the Initial Test Station

M. Brüggen & M. Hoeft: Simulations of magnetic fields in the cosmos

T. Ensslin: Software Infrastructure for Distributed Data Processing

A. Lobanov: Imaging capabilities of future radio telescopes

S. Logvinenko: Digital signal processing system of Multi-Beam Meter 
               Wavelengths Array

S. Nehls et al.: Calibration of LOPES30

A. Nigl et al.: An Outreach Project for LOFAR and Cosmic Ray Detection

V. Samodourov: Experience of simultaneous observations with two 
               independent multi-beams of the Large Phased Array