Program and Presentations

MONDAY, 14 APRIL 2008
09:15 - 09:20  Karl Menten Welcome address
09:20 - 09:30  Rainer Beck The SKA project - a very brief review
09:30 - 11:00  Filipe Abdalla Cosmology & Dark Energy
11:30 - 13:00  Andrea Ferrara Epoch of Re-Ionization Part 1
Epoch of Re-Ionization Part 2
14:15 - 15:45  Andrea Merloni First structures and black holes
16:00 - 17:30  Workshop 1 Cosmology, structure formation and SKA
• Contributed Talks:
17:30 - 17:45 Diego Capozzi  Shakhbazian Groups in the SDSS Sample
17:45 - 18:00  Margarita Khabibullina    Properties of WMAP cross-sections in the field of the RATAN-600 survey
18:00 - 18:15 Valeriu Tudose Observing transient phenomena with e-VLBI
TUESDAY, 15 APRIL 2008
08:30 - 09:50  Lucio Mayer Galaxy formation and evolution in the CDM model
09:50 - 11:10  Martin Zwaan Galaxy evolution in the neutral gas
11:25 - 12:45 Robert Laing  Synergy with ALMA
14:00 - 15:30 Workshop 2 Galaxy evolution, ALMA and SKA
• Contributed Talks:
15:45 - 16:00  Roy Smits Pulsar science with the SKA
16:00 - 16:15 Martin Krause SKA and the cosmological evolution of cluster magnetic fields
16:15 - 16:30 Martin Bernet  Magnetic fields in normal galaxies at high redshifts
16:30 - 16:45  Joern Geisbuesch Inferring polarisation properties of radio sources from SKA observations
16:45 - 17:00  Sunghye Baek Simulated 21-cm signal from the epoch of  reionization including full Ly-alpha transfer
17:00 - 17:15 Elizaveta Rastorgueva Multi-frequency kinematic study of the blazar 0716+716 during the active state in 2004
17:15 - 17:30 Manolis Rovilos Lockman Hole multiwavelength survey
WEDNESDAY, 16 APRIL 2008
09:00 - 10:15  Marcus Brueggen Magnetism
10:30 - 11:45 Ben Stappers Pulsars
11:45 - 13:00  Workshop 3 Magnetism, pulsars and SKA
14:00 - 19:30 Excursion to Effelsberg and Bad Münstereifel
THURSDAY, 17 APRIL 2008
09:00 - 10:30  Steve Rawlings Simulations for the SKA
10:45 - 12:15  Ralph Wijers Transients and LOFAR
13:30 - 15:00  Philippe Zarka  Exoplanets
15:15 - 16:45  Hubert Klahr Protoplanets
16:45 - 18:15  Workshop 4 Transients, exoplanets, protoplanets and SKA
19:30 Conference dinner
FRIDAY, 18 APRIL 2008
09:00 - 10:30  Marc Verheijen APERTIF
10:45 - 12:15  Hans-Rainer Kloeckner SKA Pathfinders: ATA, ASKAP, MeerKAT, LWA
13:30 - 15:00  Workshop 5 Synergy with LOFAR, APERTIF and SKA pathfinders
15:15 - 16:00  S. van Velzen/D. Heinzeller Conference Summary
16:15 - 17:30 Opportunity to attend the colloquium talk by Michael Kramer:
               "Fundamental Physics with pulsars:  from now towards the Square Kilometre Array"
               which will be held at the Physical Institute, Nussallee 12 (10min walk from MPIfR)
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