Program

The Magnetism KSP Workshop will start after lunchtime on the 25th of March and will run until the afternoon of the 26th of March. Please find the detailed Workshop program below. The Workshop schedule includes status reports, brief science presentations and leaves time for discussions of urgent and important issues.

Prior to the official start of the Magnetism KSP Workshop, there will be Working Group meetings on the morning of March 25th (for topics see program below). Working Group meetings will start at 9.30am in the Ryle Seminar Room (Room 930) and in the Meeting Room (Room 911) and last for about three hours until 12am. The main Workshop will then start after lunch. Note that the Milky Way Working Group meeting is open to everyone interested.

Program of the 6th MKSP Workshop

Wednesday, March 25

09.30-10.30	Meeting of the Working Groups:
	Milky Way (Room 930) and Nearby Galaxies (Room 911)
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-12.00	Meetings of the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies Working Groups (contd.)
12.00-13.00	Lunch
13.00-15.30	Status reports (Chair: W. Reich)
	- R. Beck: MKSP overview (5min)
	- M. Brentjens: LOFAR status and rollout update (10min)
	- G. de Bruyn: Polarization calibration strategies (10min)
	- G. de Bruyn: LOFAR calibration and commissioning timeline (10min)
	- J. Anderson: MKSP relevant LOFAR hardware capabilities (10min)
	- J. Anderson: Long baselines, RM Synthesis and data volumes (10min)
	- J. Anderson: MKSP Project Plan, Use Cases and Commisioning Plan (5min)
	- G. Heald: RM Synthesis and frequency coverage analysis (15min)
	- S. Duscha: RM Synthesis using wavelet transforms (10min)
	- A. Scaife: Source finding (10min)
	- M. Haverkorn: Milky Way working group (10min)
	- R. Beck: Nearby galaxies working group (10min)
	- T. Arshakian: Radio galaxies working group (10min)
	- A. Noutsos: Pulsar working group (10min)
	- Jet and transients working groups (5min)
15.30-16.00	Tea break
16.00-18.00	Synergies with other Key Science Projects (Chair: J. Anderson)
	- H. Roettgering: The Survey Key Project and the connection to the MKSP (20min)
	- G. de Bruyn: The EoR Key Project and the connection to the MKSP (10min)
	- P. Alexander: SKA and PrepSKA (20min)
16.00-18.00	Discussion Part I (Chair: J. Anderson) (Chair: J. Anderson)
	- Commissioning, data analysis & storage
19.00-19.30	Pre-dinner drinks (Selwyn College)
19.30-...	Workshop dinner (Selwyn College)

Thursday, March 26

09.00-10.30	Science talks (Chair: G. de Bruyn)
	- R. A. Laing: Magneto-ionic media around radio galaxies (15min)
	- W. Reich: Simulations and modelling of pol. Galactic emission at LOFAR freqs (15min)
	- M. Haverkorn: Observation of Galactic magnetic fields with LOFAR (15min)
	- A. Fletcher: Low frequency observations of M51 with the GMRT (15min)
	- T. Ensslin: Information theory for Faraday Synthesis (15min)
	- J. Geisbuesch: Bayesian analysis of radio polarisation data (15min)
10.30-11.00	Coffee break
11.00-13.30	Discussion Part II (Chair: R. Beck)
	- Project Plan
	- Use Cases Plan
	- Calibration Plan
	- Commissioning Plan
	- Task list: software, modelling, visualisation, ...
	- Data storage
	- Time allocation for the MKSP and data rights
	- MSKP webpage
	- Next workshop
	- ...
13.30-14.30	Lunch
14.30-...	Visit to the Observatory & other tourist activities

Note that material related to the MKSP Workshop can be found here.