LOFAR/SKA Meeting 2026

Name: LOFAR/SKA Meeting 2026
Start: 2026-05-18T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-05-20T17:00:00+02:00
Location: No location set

18 May 2026, 09:00 → 20 May 2026, 17:00 Europe/Berlin

Description

The LOFAR/SKA meeting 2026 will take place from Monday 18 through Wednesday 20 May at ECAP.

Registration

LOFAR-SKA Cosmic Ray Meeting

Participants

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Monday 18 May
- 11:00 → 12:30
  LOFAR: Talks
  - 11:00
    
    TBC 30m
    
    Speaker: Karen Terveer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)
  - 11:30
    
    Simulating cosmic rays with CRPropa 30m
    
    Speaker: Amber Duijndam (Radboud University)
  - 12:00
    
    TBC 30m
    
    Speaker: Tjibbe Gottmer (Radboud University)
- 12:30 → 13:30
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:30 → 17:00
  Coding / software discussion & hands-on
  
  Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.
  - 13:30
    
    LOFAR Data pipeline discussion & hands-on 1h 30m
    
    Speakers: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University), Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP)
  - 15:00
    
    Coffee / Tea / Biscuits? 30m
  - 15:30
    
    LOFAR Data pipeline discussion & hands-on 1h 30m
    
    Speakers: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University), Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP)
Tuesday 19 May
- 09:00 → 12:00
  SKA: Talks
  - 09:00
    
    Welcome 30m
    
    Speaker: Anna Nelles
  - 09:30
    
    Strategy and timeline for SKA activities 30m
    
    Speaker: Tim Huege (KIT & VUB)
  - 10:00
    
    Double bumps 30m
    
    Speaker: Vital De Henau (VUB)
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee 30m
  - 11:00
    
    TBC 30m
    
    Speaker: Arthur Corstanje (Radboud University)
  - 11:30
    
    Interference patterns in airshower radio emissions 30m
    
    Speaker: Fabian Kenbeek (Radboud University)
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:00 → 16:30
  Coding / software discussion & hands-on
  
  Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.
  - 13:00
    
    LOFAR 1 Summary Paper Discussion 30m
    
    Speaker: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University)
  - 13:30
    
    Coding / software discussion & hands-on 1h
  - 14:30
    
    Coffee 30m
  - 15:00
    
    Coding / software discussion & hands-on 1h 30m
Wednesday 20 May
- 09:00 → 12:00
  SKA: Talks
  - 09:00
    
    Radio detection of PeV Gamma Ray with SKA-Low 30m
    
    Speaker: Philipp Laub (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  - 09:30
    
    Air Shower Profile Reconstruction with SKA/LOFAR 30m
    
    Speaker: Keito Watanabe (KIT)
  - 10:00
    
    Radio Interferometric Reconstruction of the Air Shower Parameters with the SKA-Low array 30m
    
    Speaker: Subhadip Saha (IAP, KIT & IIT Kanpur (Physics))
  - 10:30
    
    Coffee / Tea / Biscuits? 30m
  - 11:00
    
    Feasibility Analysis of Detecting Inclined Air Showers Using SKA-Low 30m
    
    Speaker: chao zhang (Nanjing University)
- 12:00 → 13:00
  
  Lunch 1h
- 13:00 → 17:00
  Coding / software discussion & hands-on
  
  Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.
  - 13:00
    
    Coding / software discussion & hands-on 1h 30m
  - 14:30
    
    Coffee 30m
  - 15:00
    
    Coding / software discussion & hands-on 1h 30m