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Thanks so much for attending!
A big Thank You! to all participants of the LOFAR Family Meeting 2022 in Cologne, Germany. We enjoyed our first in-person family meeting in a long time, with a full week of fantastic talks, posters, and discussion. Have a safe trip home and we hope to see all of you again (plus everyone who could unfortunately not attend this time) in Olsztyn next year.
General Info
The LOFAR Family Meeting will take place from June 13th to 17th 2022.
Venue: Leonardo Royal Hotel am Stadtwald, Cologne, Germany
Registration and Abstract submission:
LOC: Volker Heesen (Chair, Hamburg), Aritra Basu (TLS), Irene Bonati (ILT), Marcus Brüggen (Hamburg), Francesco de Gasperin (INAF), Marco Iacobelli (ASTRON), Irene Kehler (Bielefeld), Jörn Künsemöller (Bielefeld), Dominik Schwarz (Bielefeld), Marjan Tibbe (ASTRON)
SOC: Benedetta Ciardi (Chair, MPA), Antoaneta Antonova (BAS), Philipp Best (ROE), Rossella Cassano (INAF), Jesus A. Cazares (Virac), Peter Gallagher (DIAS), Jean Mathias Griessmeier (Orleans), Jason Hessels (ASTRON), Cathy Horellou (Chalmers), Hanna Rotkaehl (CBK)
Invited speakers: Annalisa Bonafede, Katarzyna Beser, Andrea Botteon, Joseph Callingham, Eoin Carley, Francesco de Gasperin, Martin Hardcastle, Florent Mertens, George Miley, Katharine Mulrey, Antonia Rowlinson, Philippe Zarka
Important to note:
- The in-person participation is capped at approximately 200 people. We expect that in-person participants comply with the official regulations against COVID-19. In addition, we will offer every participant a daily self-test for COVID-19, which use is encouraged before joining the meeting for the day.
- The conference fee is 300€, which includes lunches and coffee breaks; the optional conference dinner is an extra 50€ per person. Reasonable requests for refunds are accepted, but no refunds are possible from 23rd May. Some support for early-career researchers is available.
- We will try to stream talks for those attending remotely, but presentations can only be given in-person.
In case of any questions or queries, please get in touch with the Local Organising Committee (LOC) via e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Venue
The conference venue is the Hotel Leonardo Cologne Am Stadtwald. It can be easily reached by public transport either from Cologne main station (5.0 km from the hotel) or from the airport Cologne/Bonn (19.0 km from the hotel). The closest bus stop is "Kitschburger Str." (0.2 km), the closest tram stop "Dürener Str./Gürtel" (0.3 km).
- Address: Dürener Straße 287, Cologne, D-50935, Germany
- Phone: +49 221 467 60
- Link to Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/AjtFLes1foyuW2fh8
Local travel connections:
- Cologne Airport - Cologne Central Station (Köln Hbf): Take S19 (travel time 15 min)
- There are several routes from Cologne Central Station (Köln Hbf) to the hotel, one being U-Bahn Line 18 to Neumarkt and then line 7 to Dürener Str. Gürtel
- Price for single ticket from the airport or the central station to the hotel is 3,00 Euros.
Travel to the venue/navigation link:
https://www.cologne-tourism.com/plan-inform/arrival-mobility/
Where to buy tickets and other useful information:
https://www.cologne-tourism.com/plan-inform/arrival-mobility/public-transport/
How to buy tickets:
https://www.kvb.koeln/tickets/ticketkauf/index.html
The most affordable way of buying tickets for public transport is to use the “9 Euro Ticket”. This will give you free public transport within Cologne and Germany for the whole of June. It should be available to buy from any Deutsche Bahn or KVB (Cologne public transport) ticket machine. See here for more details:
https://www.bahn.com/en/offers/regional/9-euro-ticket-en
Please note that this ticket covers only local trains (S-bahn, tram, U-Bahn/subway) but not IC, ICE and EC long distance trains.
Things to do in Cologne: Find some inspiration in this PDF.
Program
Monday, June 13
10:00 Registration opens
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (optional, not included)
13:30 - 13:50 Welcome address by the ILT Director, ASTRON Director & the LOC Chair
Chair: Volker Heesen
13:50 - 16:00 Surveys and Methods
13:50 - 14:20 Francesco de Gasperin, "The LOFAR Sky Surveys"
14:20 - 14:40 Reinout van Weeren, “LoDeSS - The LOFAR Decametre Sky Survey”
14:40 - 15:00 Caroline Heneka, “Learning from large-scale maps at radio wavelengths & LoTSS joint cosmological constraints”
15:00 - 15:20 Lara Alegre, “A machine learning classifier for LOFAR radio galaxy cross-matching techniques”
15:20 - 15:40 Marco Bondi, “Sub-arcsec imaging with LOFAR of radio sources in the Euclid Deep Field North”
15:40 - 16:00 Jakob Roth, “Bayesian radio interferometric imaging with direction dependent calibration”
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee & Tea
16:30 - 18:00 LOFAR users session
16:30 - 16:35 Roberto Pizzo & Jean-Mathias Griessmeier, Welcome
16:35 - 16:50 Jean-Mathias Griessmeier, “The LOFAR Users Committee: status & updates”
16:50 - 17:05 Roberto Pizzo, “The LOFAR Observatory and Science Data Centre Operations status”
17:05 - 17:20 John Swinbank, “Science Data Centre Development Programme status”
17:20 - 18:00 Discussion
19:00 - 20:30 Welcome reception
Tuesday, June 14
Chair: Cathy Horellou
09:00 - 10:10 Magnetised Universe
09:00 - 09:30 Annalisa Bonafede, “Magnetic fields and non-thermal emission in galaxy clusters and beyond”
09:30 - 09:50 Gabriella di Gennaro, “Exploring the evolution of magnetic fields in merging galaxy clusters”
09:50 - 10:10 Ana Erceg, “Faraday tomography of LoTSS-DR2 data: Faraday moments in the high-latitude outer Galaxy and revealing Loop III in polarisation”
10:10 - 10:30 Poster flash talks
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:00 Magnetised Universe (cont.)
11:00 - 11:20 (cancelled) Chiara Stuardi, “Probing intergalactic magnetic fields using LOFAR”
11:20 - 11:40 Sara Piras, “Polarization in the ELAIS-N1 LOFAR deep field: Probing the sub-mJy regime of polarized extragalactic sources”
11:40 - 12:00 Brian Hare, “Meter-scale structure and 3D polarization of Lightning Recoil Leaders”
12:00 - 12:30 Galaxy Clusters
12:00 - 12:30 Andrea Botteon, “Understanding non-thermal phenomena in galaxy clusters with LOFAR”
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chair: Gianfranco Brunetti
14:00 - 15:40 Galaxy Clusters (cont.)
14:00 - 14:20 Marcus Brüggen, “eROSITA meets LOFAR: First results and perspectives”
14:20 - 14:40 Alessandro Ignesti, “The LOFAR-MeerKAT-VLA View on the Nonthermal Side of a Jellyfish Galaxy”
14:40 - 15:00 Eric Osinga, “Studying particle (re-)acceleration mechanisms in the famous cluster Abell 2256: From 16 MHz radio emission to gamma rays”
15:00 - 15:20 Virginia Cuciti, “Radio Megahalos in galaxy clusters”
15:20 - 15:40 Nadia Biava, “Exploring the unexpected large-scale diffuse emission in cool-core galaxy clusters with LOFAR”
15:40 - 16:00 Poster flash talks
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee & Tea
16:30 - 18:00 Presentation session (LOFAR2.0)
16:30 - 16:50 Wim van Cappellen, "LOFAR2.0 Development Programme"
16:50 - 17:10 Barbara Matyjasiak, “LOFAR for Space Weather (LOFAR4SW): New capabilities for Space Weather science with Europe's Largest Radio Telescope”
17:10 - 17:30 Maaijke Mevius, "Ionosphere and dynamic scheduling"
17:30 - 18:00 Jason Hessels, "LOFAR2.0 Large Programmes"
Extra Room: 18:00 - 20:30 ILT Board meeting (hybrid) Part I (with dinner afterwards for those physically present)
Wednesday, June 15
Extra Room: 08:30 - 11:00 ILT Board Meeting (hybrid) Part II
Chair: Rossella Cassano
09:00 - 10:10 Cosmic Rays and Interstellar Medium
09:00 - 09:30 Katharine Mulrey, “Detecting cosmic rays with LOFAR”
09:30 - 09:50 Michael Stein, “Insights for cosmic-ray transport from radio halos in edge-on galaxies”
09:50 - 10:10 Henrik Edler, “The LOFAR Virgo Cluster Survey”
10:10 - 10:30 Poster flash talks
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee & Tea
11:00 - 12:40 Nearby Galaxies and Milky Way
11:00 - 11:20 Volker Heesen, “A LoTSS-DR2 survey of nearby galaxies”
11:20 - 11:40 Ancla Müller, “Role of magnetic fields in ram pressure stripped galaxies”
11:40 - 12:00 Lovorka Gajovic, “Radio constraints on dark matter annihilation in dwarf galaxies”
12:00 - 12:20 Dominik Bomans, “Low mass, compact starbursts and dwarf AGN in LoTSS and LoLSS”
12:20 - 12:40 Marcin Hajduk, “LOFAR observations of Galactic planetary nebulae and HII regions”
12:40 - 14:10 Lunch
Chair: Andrzej Krankowski
14:10 - 15:10 High-z Galaxies
14:10 - 14:30 Sarah Leslie, “The 150MHz SFR calibration”
14:30 - 14:50 Vijay Mahatma, “LOFAR-VLBI studies of famous radio galaxies”
14:50 - 15:10 Marco Simonte, “Giant radio galaxies in the LOTSS Bootes deep field”
15:10 - 16:00 Stars and Planets
15:10 - 15:40 Philippe Zarka, “Planets with LOFAR”
15:40 - 16:00 Cyril Tasse, “Multi-objects dynamic spectropolarimetry of stellar and planetary targets”
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee & Tea
16:30 - 18:00 Stars and Planets (cont.)
16:30 - 17:00 Joseph Callingham, “Radio stars and exoplanets”
17:00 - 17:20 Wing Hei Yiu, “A transition in the radio-emitting engine between early and late M dwarfs?”
17:20 - 17:40 Deepika Venkattu, “Supernovae with LOFAR-VLBI”
17:40 - 18:00 Maria Arias, “LoTSS discovery of a diffuse ring around Calvera – a supernova remnant in the Galactic halo?”
18:10 - 18:15 Conference picture (meet on hotel terrace)
18:15 - 18:45 Boat race
18:45 - 19:45 Poster session (wine & cheese)
Thursday, June 16
Chair: Torsten Ensslin
09:00 - 10:30 Transients and Pulsars
09:00 - 09:30 Antonia Rowlinson, “Transients with LOFAR”
09:30 - 09:50 Emma van der Wateren, “The properties of the pulsars discovered by the LOFAR Tied-Array All-Sky Survey”
09:50 - 10:10 Caterina Tiburzi, “Application of low-frequency pulsar data in the search for gravitational waves”
10:10 - 10:30 Ziggy Pleunis, “Fast radio bursts with the LOFAR telescope”
10:30 - 11:00 Coffeee & Tea
11:00 - 12:00 Transients and Pulsars (cont.)
11:00 - 11:20 Dany Vohl, “Searching for FRB persistent radio source counterparts in dwarf galaxies using LOFAR”
11:20 - 11:40 Kaustubh Rajwade, “Searching for ultra-long period neutron stars with LOFAR”
11:40 - 12:00 David McKenna, “The eRRATic Low Frequency Sky”
12:00 - 12:30 Sun and Space Weather
12:00 - 12:30 Katarzyna Beser, “Application of LOFAR calibration phases in space weather studies”
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
Chair: Peter Gallagher
14:00 - 15:30 Sun and Space Weather (cont.)
14:00 - 14:30 Eoin Carley, “The Sun with LOFAR”
14:30 - 14:50 Christian Vocks, “Separating fundamental and harmonic sources in LOFAR solar type III radio burst images”
14:50 - 15:10 Mykola Gordovskyy, “Sizes and shapes of sources in solar metric radio bursts observed by LOFAR”
15:10 - 15:30 Malte Bröse, “First joint STIX and LOFAR Observations of a Flare Event on 6 June 2020”
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee & Tea
16:00 - 18:00 Visions for LOFAR
16:00 - 16:30 George Miley, “GLORAY - The LOFAR global citizenship radio array”
16:30 - 16:50 Katharine Mulrey on behalf of Stijn Buitink, “Cosmic Ray observations with LOFAR2.0 and SKA”
16:50 - 17:10 Etienne Bonnassieux, “Current & Future Prospects with LOFAR-VLBI”
17:10 - 17:30 Cedric Viou, “NenuFAR radio telescope: Technical Highlights in 2022”
17:30 - 17:50 Harish Vedantham, "Low and sharp: science with LOFAR in the SKA era"
17:50 - 18:00 Discussion on future prospects
20:00 Conference Dinner at Café Museum Ludwig (Heinrich-Böll-Platz, 50667 Köln)
Friday, June 17
Chair: Ancla Müller
09:00 - 10:30 Epoch of Reionization and Cosmology
09:00 - 09:30 Florent Mertens, “Improved upper limits on the 21-cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen from LOFAR”
09:30 - 09:50 Bharat Kumar Gehlot, “Unveiling the Cosmic Dawn and Reionization with LOFAR-AARTFAAC”
09:50 - 10:10 Lana Ceraj, “Characterizing the Galactic polarized emission in the cosmological 21 cm experiments”
10:10 - 10:30 Jinglan Zheng, “LOFAR cosmology group main results”
10:30 - 10:40 Andrzej Krankowski, tba
10:40 - 11:20 Coffeee & Tea
11:20 - 12:30 Active Galactic Nuclei
11:20 - 11:50 Jonathon Pierce, “Radio AGN and galaxy evolution with the LoTSS sky surveys”
11:50 - 12:10 Urszula Pajdosz-Šmierciak, “Former jet reorientation or giant radio blazars?”
12:10 - 12:30 Anniek Gloudemans, “Discovery of radio-loud quasars into the Epoch of Reionization using LoTSS-DR2”
cancelled - 12:10 - 12:30 Isabella Prandoni, “New constraints on the faint radio source population from the LoTSS deep fields”
12:30 - 12:40 Farewell Address
12:40 - 14:00 Lunch (optional, not included)
Poster flash talks
Tuesday 10:10 -10:30
Haoyang Ye, “Elais-N1 field: progress in ILT sub-arcsecond deep field imaging strategy”
Mateusz Olech, “Deploying LOFAR-VLBI pipeline in Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center”
Szymon Nakoneczny, “Cosmology based on LOFAR LoTSS DR2 and CMB cross-correlations”
Lesek Blaszkiewicz, “The influence of the ionosphere on the pulsars signals observed with the LOFAR PL612 station”
Paweł Flisek, "Mid-latitude ionosphere irregularities detection based on LOFAR and GNSS simultaneous observations"
Jean-Matthias Griessmeier, “The first NenuFAR pulsar catalog”
Mark Brionne, “The NenuFAR pulsar blind survey: observations, expectations, and data processing”
Bartosz Smierciak, “Interstellar scattering studies with pulsar observations at 150 MHz using single LOFAR station”
Feng Gao, "A new implementation of RM synthesis inside image deconvolution cycles"
Nika Jurlin, "Nuclear regions of radio galaxies using LOFAR international baselines: A high-resolution study of their recurrent activity"
Tuesday 15:40 - 16:00
Kevin Schmidt (cancelled), “Deep Learning-based Imaging in Radio Interferometry”
Giulia Lusetti, "Reenergization of AGN head-tailed galaxies in the galaxy cluster Zwcl0634"
Bonny Barkus, “Source dynamics and evolution of low-luminosity FRII radio galaxies”
James Petley, “Connecting the spectra of quasars with strong outflows to their increased radio-detection fraction”
Thomas Pasini, “AGN feedback in the survey era: insights into large samples of clusters and groups through LOFAR, MeerKAT and eROSITA”
Bohan Yue, “The radio-loudness of SDSS quasars in LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: tracing the ubiquitous jet distribution and powering efficiency”
Mariusz Pozoga, “Quantitative description of ionospheric scintillation at PL610 station”
Takumi Ohmura, “Radio emission from a head-tail galaxy in 3D magnetohydrodynamic simulation”
Yuta Tashima, “Pseudo-observation of spiral galaxies focusing on depolarization based on MHD simulation”
Pratik Dabhade, “Probing X-shaped radio galaxies using LoFAR”
Sagar Sethi, “Low-frequency view of 2-Mpc sized giant radio galaxies”
Wednesday 10:10 - 10:30
Lukas Böhme, “Cross-matching LOFAR Sources”
Denis Wittor, “The Mach number discrepancy of Radio Relics”
Kellie de Vos, “Clusters' far-reaching influence on narrow-angle tail radio galaxies”
Christian Groeneveld, “Galaxy clusters in the Decameter Sky”
Luca Bruno, “The multi-component radio halo in Abell 2142”
Kosuke Nishiwaki, “The Occurrence of Radio Halos in the Merger History of Galaxy Clusters and the Origin of Seed Electrons for Re-acceleration”
Pranav Kukreti, “Investigating the link between radio jet evolution and gas in radio galaxies”
Bartosz Dabrowski, “Interferometric imaging of the type IIIb radio bursts observed with LOFAR on 22 August 2017”
Yihong Wu, “Simulations of type II solar radio bursts to interpret LOFAR observations”
Cristina Manzano, “Jülich LOFAR Long Term Archive”
Participants
See here for a list of Participants.
Accommodation
Hotel Leonardo Cologne Am Stadtwald
https://www.leonardo-hotels.com/cologne/leonardo-royal-hotel-koln-am-stadtwald
The conference hotel has blocked 80 rooms for us at a rate of 99€ per night for single occupancy and 119€ per night for double occupancy. These rates include breakfast. In order to book a room use the reference "LOFAR Family Meeting" when contacting the hotel. Contact the hotel via:
- e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
- Phone: +49 211-7771 977
Alternatively, please find a few suggestions for nearby hotels below.
Park Inn by Radisson Cologne City West (4 stars)
- Address: Innere Kanalstrasse 15, Cologne, D-50823, Germany
- Phone: +49 221 5701 0
- e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ca. 120€ per room
AMERON Köln Hotel Regent (4 stars)
https://ameroncollection.com/de/koeln-hotel-regent/
- Address: Melatengürtel 15, Cologne, D-50933, Germany
- Phone: +49 221 54990
- e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
ca. 120€ per room
Die Wohngemeinschaft (Hostel)
https://reservations.hotel-spider.com/02a59c9ff07aaaae
- Address: Richard-Wagner Str. 39, Cologne, D-50674, Germany
ca. 65€ per room
Sponsors
This conference is sponsored by Stichting International LOFAR Telescope and following organisations:
