Programme
Links to publicly available talks are now given below!
Day 1
09:00 - 09:55 : Coffee + Registration
Session #1 (Chair: Jason Hessels)
09:55 - 10:00 : Conference Welcome
10:00 - 10:30 : Vikram Ravi - What we know about FRBs
10:30 - 11:00 : Ziggy Pleunis - Fast radio bursts with CHIME/FRB
11:00 - 11:30 : Keith Bannister - ASKAP Fast radio bursts
11:30 - 11:48 : Alex Josephy - Late Breaking Results CHIME
11:48 - 12:00 : Mohit Bhardwaj - Late Breaking Results CHIME
12:00 - 12:30 : Discussion - Latest ASKAP and CHIME + late breaking results (Conveners: Liam Connor, Ryan Shannon)
12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 : Tony Piro and Bing Zhang - The case for isolated or interacting neutron stars
15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee
Session #3 (Chair: Cees Bassa)
15:30 - 15:45 : Laura Spitler - Updates from Burst Monitoring of FRB 121102
15:45 - 16:00 : Kelly Gourdji - An analysis of Arecibo bursts from FRB 121102 at 1.4 GHz and implications for future FRB searches
16:00 - 16:15 : Leon Houben - Constraints on the low frequency spectrum of FRB 121102
16:15 - 16:30 : Ben Stappers - Are all fast radio bursts repeating sources?
16:30 - 16:40: Leon Oostrum - Late breaking results Apertif
16:40 - 17:30 : Discussion - Observational case for one vs multiple source classes (Conveners: Ben Stappers, Jason Hessels)
Day 2
Session #1 (Chair: Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan)
09:00 - 09:30 : Manisha Caleb - Polarization properties of fast radio bursts
09:30 - 10:00 : Discussion - Constraining models through FRB observations (Conveners: Manisha Caleb, Casey Law)
10:00 - 10:30 : Coffee
10:30 - 10:45 : Jaroslaw Dyks - Coherent effects in radio pulsar polarization
Session #2 (Chair: Samayra Straal)
10:45 - 11:15 : Ben Margalit - A magnetar model for FRBs
11:15 - 11:30 : Andrei Beloborodov - Magnetars as sources of FRBs
11:30 - 12:30 : Discussion - What about non-neutron star models? (Conveners: Bryan Gaensler, Benito Marcote)
12:30 - 13:30 : Lunch
Session #3 (Chair: Emily Petroff)
13:30 - 14:00 : Maxim Lyutikov (remote) - Constraining the source properties
14:00 - 14:15 : Stefan Hackstein - Fast radio burst dispersion measure and rotation measure as a probe for the inter-galactic magnetic field
14:15 - 14:45 : Discussion - What are the most promising avenues for using FRBs as astrophysical probes? (Conveners: Vikram Ravi, Laura Spitler)
Session #4 (Chair: Emily Petroff)
14:45 - 14:53 : Telescope update - GBT
14:53 - 15:01 : Telescope update - EVN
15:01 - 15:30 : Coffee
15:30 - 15:38 : Telescope update - Apertif
15:38 - 15:46 : Telescope update - UTMOST
15:46 - 15:54 : Telescope update - MeerKAT
15:54 - 16:02 : Telescope update - Realfast
16:02 - 16:10 : Telescope update - DSA
16:10 - 17:00 : Discussion - FRB naming convention and protocols (what to do when there are 1000s of FRBs) (Conveners: Keith Bannister, Pragya Chawla)
18:30 Conference dinner at Haesje Claes (in the city center, 30 minutes from Science Park by public transportation)
Day 3
Session #1 (Chair: Shivani Bhandari)
09:00 - 09:30 : Pragya Chawla - Frequency and telescope dependent FRB rates
09:30 - 09:45 : JP Macquart - Properties of the bright FRB population
09:45 - 10:00 : Liam Connor - The relationship between the FRB population and their detection statistics
10:00 - 10:30 : Coffee
Session #2 (Chair: Charlie Walker)
10:30 - 10:45 : Shami Chatterjee - Modeling the fast radio burst population
10:45 - 11:00 : David Gardenier - Modeling the FRB population
11:00 - 11:15 : Yuu Niino - Fast radio bursts' recipes for the distributions of dispersion measures, flux densities, and fluences
11:15 - 11:45 : Jim Cordes - Detectability and time-frequency structure of bursts: intrinsic vs. propagation
11:45 - 12:30 : Discussion - Studies of the FRB popualation (Conveners: JP Macquart, Jim Cordes)
12:30 - 12:40 : Conference photo
12:40 - 13:45 : Lunch
Session #3 (Chair: Sirapapa Sanpa-arsa)
13:45 - 14:00 : Casey Law - Testing models of magnetar birth with radio transients from milliseconds to gigaseconds
14:00 - 14:15 : Benito Marcote - The fading of a possible long gamma-ray burst in a fast radio burst-like environment
14:15 - 15:00 : Discussion - Relating FRBs to other types of transients (Conveners: Evan Keane, Tarraneh Eftekhari)
15:00 - 15:30 : Coffee
Session #4 (Chair: Vikram Ravi)
15:30 - 15:45 : Harry Qiu - A Galactic plane survey for dispersed single pulses with ASKAP
15:45 - 16:15 : Tarraneh Eftekhari - Identifying the host galaxies of fast radio bursts
16:15 - 17:15 : Discussion - Future searches and host galaxy identification (Conveners: Elaine Sadler, Vicky Kaspi)
17:15 - 17:30 : Conference wrap up
Registered Participants
Devansh Agarwal
Kshitij Aggarwal
Keith Bannister
Cees Bassa
Mechiel Bezuidenhout
Shivani Bhandari
Mohit Bhardwaj
Manisha Caleb
Shami Chatterjee
Pragya Chawla
Ismaël Cognard
Liam Connor
James Cordes
Cherie Day
Laura Driessen
Jaroslaw Dyks
Tarraneh Eftekhari
Chris Flynn
Bryan Gaensler
David Gardenier
Ersin Göğüş
Christian GOUIFFES
Kelly Gourdji
Stefan Hackstein
Jason Hessels
Henning Hilmarsson
Leon Houben
Fabian Jankowski
Alexander Josephy
Balabhaskar Kalapatapu
Aris Karastergiou
Victoria Kaspi
Evan Keane
Casey Law
Manuel Linares
Maxim Lyutikov
Jean-Pierre Macquart
Benito Marcote
Ben Margalit
Rebecca Mcfadden
Daniele Michilli
Yuu Niino
Kenzie Nimmo
Leon Oostrum
Zsolt Paragi
Emily Petroff
Chris Phillips
Anthony Piro
Ziggy Pleunis
Andrea Possenti
Hao Qiu
Kaustubh Rajwade
Vikram Ravi
Elaine Sadler
Sotiris Sanidas
Siraprapa Sanpa-arsa
David Saroff
Ryan Shannon
Laura Spitler
Ben Stappers
Samayra Straal
Diego F. Torres
Joeri van Leeuwen
Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
Dany Vohl
Charlie Walker
Jie-Shuang Wang
Amanda Weltman
Di Xiao
Bing Zhang
Participants remaining for Thursday 21 February
Keith Bannister
Mechiel Bezuidenhout
Shivani Bhandari
Mohit Bhardwaj
Manisha Caleb
Cherie Day
Laura Driessen
Christian GOUIFFES
Leon Houben
Fabian Jankowski
Balabhaskar Kalapatapu
Casey Law
Manuel Linares
Benito Marcote
Ben Margalit
Daniele Michilli
Zsolt Paragi
Hao Qiu
Vikram Ravi
Elaine Sadler
Ryan Shannon
Laura Spitler
Ben Stappers
Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
Charlie Walker
Jie-Shuang Wang
Amanda Weltman
Participants remaining for Friday 22 February
Mechiel Bezuidenhout
Manisha Caleb
Cherie Day
Laura Driessen
Balabhaskar Kalapatapu
Manuel Linares
Benito Marcote
Ben Margalit
Daniele Michilli
Zsolt Paragi
Ryan Shannon
Laura Spitler
Ben Stappers
Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan
Charlie Walker
Amanda Weltman