---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Steve Croft <[email protected]> Date: Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:55 AM Subject: Today's RAL seminar - Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON): Latest pulsar results from LOFAR To: [email protected] Cc: Joeri van Leeuwen <[email protected]>, Eric Essman <[email protected]>
Please join us for today's RAL seminar at 3:10pm, Room B1, HFA *** Note that B5 is no longer available to us, and seminars will be taking place in B1 from now on. *** Joeri van Leeuwen (ASTRON) Latest pulsar results from LOFAR The Dutch/European Low Frequency Array LOFAR provides exceptional collecting area and bandwidth. In the commissioning phase, LOFAR collected much high-quality data. I will describe some of the initial results, on low-frequency behavior in M87; deep LOFAR epoch of reionization observations toward the north celestial pole; recombination lines; and our ionosphere. I will then present in some more detail the results from our two complementary pilot pulsar surveys, and several other pulsar commissioning projects -- mostly on neutron-star magnetospheres. Finally I will sketch some of the dedicated and open-time projects that have started in the current cycle, and describe the current state of the continuously improving observing capabilities. Joeri got his PhD at the University of Utrecht. After a postdoc at the University of British Columbia, he came to Berkeley where he worked on digital instrumentation and pulsar studies, including work with the Allen Telescope Array. He is now at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) working on LOFAR, APERTIF, and other projects. *** We will take Joeri for lunch, leaving from outside B building promptly at 12pm. We will also be going for a quick beer at Jupiter later, leaving from outside B building at 5pm. *** If you would like to set up a meeting with Joeri today or tomorrow morning, please contact him directly at [email protected] The RAL seminar schedule is at http://tinyurl.com/ral2013 -- ..............................**........... Dr. Steve Croft University of California, Berkeley Dept. of Astronomy 601 Campbell Hall #3411 Berkeley, CA 94720-3411, USA +1 510 643 2329 (work) +1 510 642 5275 (admin) +1 510 642 3411 (fax) +1 925 321 0871 (cell) [email protected] ..............................**...........
