[ASA] SKA: Modern Radio Universe 2013

[John O'Byrne]

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22 - 26 April 2013, Bonn, Germany


PLEASE PRE-REGISTER ON: 

  https://indico.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=21


80 years ago, in spring 1933, Karl Jansky published his discovery of
cosmic radio emission.  This paved the way not only for a new
discipline, radio astronomy, but also for an exploration of the
universe that now encompasses almost the entire electromagnetic
window.

Nowadays, radio astronomy is about to enter into yet another "golden
era" with a number of new or upgraded radio facilities coming online
and major new initiatives, like the SKA, are starting up. This
conference will try to highlight the original and exciting science
currently being produced by radio astronomical facilities, such as the
Effelsberg telescope, the GBT, LOFAR, ALMA, the Karl Jansky VLA,
eMERLIN, EVN, VLBA, as well as the pathfinder experiments of the
Square Kilometre Array (SKA), and others.

The advanced science delivered by the radio astronomical community will
improve our current knowledge of the universe, highlight new trends,
and address key questions in modern astrophysics that may lead us to
even more ambitious science goals to be targeted by future radio
facilities like the SKA.

Science areas that will be discussed are among others: Cosmology,
galaxy evolution, AGN and compact objects, star formation,
interstellar medium, The Milky Way and Galactic science, radio
transients, fundamental and astroparticle physics, extreme physics and
associated theory. In particular:

* From the dark ages to cosmic large scale structure (EoR, dark energy, HI web)

* Galaxies and galaxy evolution (HI, radio continuum, magnetic fields)

* Stars and star formation (masers, radio stars, planetary radio emission, disks) 

* Interstellar and Intergalactic Medium (physical processes in the ISM and IGM)  

* Compact Objects (AGN, X-ray binaries, neutron stars, radio transients)

* Tests of fundamental physics (pulsars, fundamental constants)


The last Modern Radio Universe took place 2007 in Manchester
commemorating 50 years of the Lovell telescope and looking forward
towards the SKA. This issue of the conference commemorates the
groundbreaking work of Karl Jansky 80 years ago and comes 40 years
after the Effelsberg 100m telescope started operations.

The conference will consist of invited talks (approx. 20 min) and 15
min contributed talks (potentially a few 30 min review talks) plus
posters. In short, combining past and future of radio astronomy, the
main focus of the science presentations, will be to make an inventory
of outstanding science results that are presently being obtained by
the newly upgraded or constructed facilities.


SOC:

M. Kramer (chair; MPIfR), H. Falcke (chair; Radboud Uni Nijmegen), 
F. Bertoldi (AIfA), F. Combes (Paris), T. de Graauw (ALMA), P. Diamond (SKA),
A. Eckart (Uni Cologne), B. Fanaroff (SA SKA), R. Fender (Uni Southampton), 
L. Feretti (INAF), T. Fieseler (Juelich), D. Frail (NRAO), M. Garrett (ASTRON),
R. Laing (ESO), K. Menten (MPIfR), L. V. Montenegro (IAA), 
M. Reid (CfA Harvard-Smithsonian), A. Zensus (MPIfR)


LOC:

H.-R. Kloeckner (chair), G. Breuer, S. Bruschi, H. Falcke, M. Huynh, 
M. Kramer, J. Lazio, M. Zwaan


Sponsors: 

MPIfR, MPG, SKA Organisation, European SKA Consortium, SKA project office,
RadioNet 3


Supported by: 

German Long Wavelength Consortium, Argelander-Institute for Astronomy University of Bonn,
Astronomical Institute University of Bochum, I. Physikalisches Institut University of Cologne,
Radboud University Nijmegen


Social activities:

Boat trip on the Rhine, reception, soccer match, conference dinner, free visit to
the museum, trip to Effelsberg. 


Conference fee:

The conference fee of 250 Euro will include coffee, lunch and 
social activities. An additional fee of 50 Euro for the conference dinner is needed to
cover the cost.


Venue: 

Rheinisches Landes Museum Bonn
Colmant Strasse 14-16
53115 Bonn

The museum is located right next to the Bonn train station and is in
short walking distance to the Bonn downtown area. The museum displays
the history of the Rhineland area (prehistoric, Roman, medieval) and
holds the original remains of the Neanderthal man.

http://www.rlmb.lvr.de/



Accommodation:

A contingent of about 150 rooms has been made available in various
hotels via a "Tourismus & Congress" company. Included in the room
bookings is a public transport ticket directly usable from the
Bonn/Cologne airport.


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Important dates:

Registration open:                      September 25th, 2013
Registration deadline:                       April 1st, 2013
Abstracts deadline:                      February 15th, 2013
Conference dates:                   April 22nd - 26th , 2013


Conference website: 

       https://indico.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/indico/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=21

Conference email:  

       mru2013 at lists.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de

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Dr Minh Huynh    Tel: +61 8 6488 4594  Fax: +61 8 6488 7755        
International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research                           
University of Western Australia                                                                 
M468, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley WA 6009, Australia                            

Deputy International SKA Project Scientist        

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