Programme

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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