Aspen 2017 Winter Conference on Rast Radio Bursts

Program

Sunday February 12, 2017

Session 1: Overview of FRBs --- Chair: Duncan Lorimer
08:30 Opening remarks
08:45 Matthew Bailes --- The FRB phenomenon
09:15 Discussion
09:30 Emily Petroff --- The FRB population
10:00 Discussion
10:15 Coffee
Session 2: The Repeating FRB 121102 --- Chair: Joeri van Leeuwen
10:45 Jason Hessels --- Arecibo observations of FRB 121102
10:55 Shami Chatterjee --- Localizing the Fast Radio Burst 121102
11:05 Zsolt Paragi --- EVN observations of FRB 121102
11:15 Shriharsh Tendulkar - Multi-wavelength follow up of FRB 121102
11:25 Panel discussion
12:00 Lunch
16:30 Coffee
Session 2: Breaking News --- Chair: Sarah Burke-Spolaor
16:45 Manisha Caleb --- The first interferometric detections of FRBs
17:00 Pragya Chawla --- A search for FRBs with the GBNCC Pulsar Survey
17:15 Ryan Shannon --- Fast radio bursts: localizations and the turbulence and magnetization of the cosmic web
17:30 Leon Houben --- A VOEvent standard for FRBs
17:45 Peter Williams --- An update on the radio source WISE J071634.59-190039.2
18:00 Poster session and reception to be sponsored by RCSA
Geoffrey Bower --- Slow Radio Transient Searches in VLA FRB Searches
Jeff Cooke --- Deeper, Wider, Faster: a novel program to resolve the nature of fast radio bursts with a single detection
Liang Dai --- Lensing of Fast Radio Bursts as a Probe of Compact Dark Matter
David Gardenier --- The population of fast radio transients and intermittent pulsars, and the Apertif ALERT survey
Marcello Giroletti --- FRB 150418: clues to its nature from European VLBI Network and e-MERLIN observations
Deepthi Gorthi --- Long duration observations of the Crab for giant pulses
Mark Kuiack --- Low frequency radio transient search with AARTFAAC
Michael T Lam --- Characterizing Galactic Scintillations of Fast Radio Bursts using Radio Pulsars
Yogesh Maan --- ARTS: A new backend to search FRBs and Pulsars with APERTIF
Daniele Michilli --- LOTAAS: the LOFAR Tied-Array All-sky Survey
Klim Mikhailov --- The LOFAR Search for single pulses from M31 -- local FRBs?
Yuu Niino --- Separating an FRB Optical Counterpart from Contaminating Supernovae
Leon Oostrum --- Multi-wavelength follow-up within ALERT
J. Xavier Prochaska --- Fast Radio Bursts with K1DM3 at WMKO
Albert Stebbins --- Diagnosing Sparks from FRBs
Sander ter Veen --- FRATS: Real-time FRB searches and off-line localisation with LOFAR
Charles Walker --- Development of LOFT-e (Localisation of Fast Transients with eMERLIN)
Hai Yu --- Use the DM of FRBs to measure Hubble Parameter
Yvette Cendes --- RFI Flagging Implications for Short-Duration Transients

Monday February 13, 2017

Session 3: Chair --- Edo Berger
08:30 Maxim Lyutikov --- Emission Mechanism Theory
09:00 Discussion
09:15 Tony Piro --- Progenitor Models
09:45 Discussion
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Vicky Kaspi --- FRB searches with CHIME
10:45 Liam Connor --- logN-logS with the CHIME Pathfinder
11:00 Alexander Philippov --- Kinetic simulations of FRBs from binary neutron stars before the merger
11:15 Anatoly Spitkovsky --- FRBs from pulsar magnetospheres
11:30 Samayra Straal --- The DM contribution of PWNe if FRBs arise from bursts of young pulsars
11:45 Shotaro Yamasaki --- Probing the Origin of Fast Radio Bursts by Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers
12:00 Susumu Inoue --- FRBs as Cosmological Probes: Small-Scale Power Spectrum and Cosmic Reionization
12:15 Lunch
16:30 Break up into four sub-groups based on following topics:
What families of progenitor models are excluded?
What is the FRB emission mechanism
Are there multiple populations of FRBs
(How) does the DM distribution relate to the FRB distance scale?
17:30 Coffee
17:45 Panel discussion
Here, a representative from each of the discussions will be on the panel plus a moderator their job is to summarize the essential elements from the discussions. We'll then have a large-group follow-up discussion on these points. As a goal for ourselves, let's record action items from each discussion.

Tuesday February 14, 2017

Session 4: Chair --- Bing Zhang
08:30 Jim Cordes --- Propagation Effects in the IGM / Hosts
09:00 Discussion
09:15 J-P Macquart --- FRBs as Astrophysical Tools
09:45 Discussion
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Bryan Gaensler --- Distinguishing FRB cosmological models
10:45 Ue-Li Pen -- Learning from FRB scattering/scintillation/RM
11:00 Siyao Xu -- Turbulence in ISM/IGM using FRBs
11:15 Fayin Wang --- Measuring distance and H0 with FRBs
11:30 Yuanpei Yang --- Host Galaxy, DM and Cosmological Parameters
11:45 Akshaya Rane -- Cosmological FRB simulations
12:00 Divya Palaniswamy --- Energy Function and Redshift Distribution of Cosmological Fast Radio Bursts
12:15 Klaus Dolag --- Predicting RM and DM for FRBs from cosmological, MHD simulations
12:30 Lunch
16:30 Small Group Breakouts #2:
What are DM/RM/tsc telling us about IGM and/or local FRB environments?
What biases are there in the FRB sample?
Will FRBs be good cosmological probes?
What other astrophysics can we do with FRBs?
17:30 Coffee
17:45 Panel discussion -> Action Items

Wednesday February 15, 2017

Session 5: Chair --- Matthew Bailes
08:30 Bing Zhang --- Predictions for FRB counterparts
09:00 Discussion
09:15 Shivani Bhandari --- Current follow-up efforts
09:45 Discussion
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Discussion led by Edo Berger --- Future follow-up strategies
Noon break
Afternoon free
17:30 Public lecture in Wheeling Opera House --- Fast Radio Bursts: Nature's Latest Mystery --- Duncan Lorimer

Thursday February 16, 2017

Session 6: Chair --- Emily Petroff
08:30 Laura Spitler --- Practical radio observing issues: single dishes
09:00 Casey Law --- Practical radio observing issues: interferometry
09:30 Discussion of both talks led by the speakers
10:00 Xavier Prochaska --- Extragalactic Gas and FRBs
10:15 Coffee
10:45 Keith Bannister --- FRB searches with ASKAP
11:00 Chris Flynn --- FRB searches with UTMOST
11:15 Adam Deller --- Pinpointing the host galaxies of FRBs with UTMOST-2D
11:30 Joeri van Leeuwen --- ALERT -- The Apertif-LOFAR Exploration of the Radio Transient Sky
11:45 Ben Stappers (via Skype) --- TRAPUM & MeerTRAP -- Transients with MeerKAT
12:00 Joe Lazio -- FRBs and SETI
12:15 Lunch and discussions
16:30 Small Group Breakouts #3
Optimal strategies for finding FRBs
How to identify hosts in the absence of any other EM counterparts
What happens if there are no counterparts
Multi-messenger follow-up
17:30 Coffee
17:45 Panel discussion -> Action Items

Friday February 17, 2017

Session 7: Chair --- Duncan Lorimer
08:30 Di Li --- Designing a Commensal Survey of FRB with the FAST Telescope
08:45 Dan Werthimer --- Instrumentation for FRB searches
09:00 Justin Vandenbroucke -- Searching for neutrinos from FRBs with IceCube
09:15 Kaustubh Rajwade --- Event rate predictions for future surveys
09:30 Scott Ransom --- Current and Future Work on Fast Transient Search Algorithms
09:45 Discussion
10:00 Coffee
10:15 Xuefeng Wu --- FRBs as Probes of Fundamental Physics
10:45 Discussion
11:00 Sarah Burke-Spolaor --- Future surveys, strategies and capabilities
11:30 Discussion and concluding remarks