LOFAR/SKA Meeting 2026

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

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

Monday 18 May

11:00 → 12:30 LOFAR: Talks

11:00 TBC

Speaker: Karen Terveer (Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics)

11:30 Simulating cosmic rays with CRPropa

Speaker: Amber Duijndam (Radboud University)

12:00 TBC

Speaker: Tjibbe Gottmer (Radboud University)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch

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

Speakers: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University), Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP)

15:00 Coffee / Tea / Biscuits?

15:30 LOFAR Data pipeline discussion & hands-on

Speakers: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University), Sjoerd Bouma (ECAP)

Tuesday 19 May

09:00 → 12:00 SKA: Talks

09:00 Welcome

Speaker: Anna Nelles

09:30 Strategy and timeline for SKA activities

Speaker: Tim Huege (KIT & VUB)

10:00 Double bumps

Speaker: Vital De Henau (VUB)

10:30 Coffee

11:00 TBC

Speaker: Arthur Corstanje (Radboud University)

11:30 Interference patterns in airshower radio emissions

Speaker: Fabian Kenbeek (Radboud University)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

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

Speaker: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University)

13:30 Coding / software discussion & hands-on

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Coding / software discussion & hands-on

Wednesday 20 May

09:00 → 12:00 SKA: Talks

09:00 Radio detection of PeV Gamma Ray with SKA-Low

Speaker: Philipp Laub (Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics (ECAP), Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

09:30 Air Shower Profile Reconstruction with SKA/LOFAR

Speaker: Keito Watanabe (KIT)

10:00 Radio Interferometric Reconstruction of the Air Shower Parameters with the SKA-Low array

Speaker: Subhadip Saha (IAP, KIT & IIT Kanpur (Physics))

10:30 Coffee / Tea / Biscuits?

11:00 Feasibility Analysis of Detecting Inclined Air Showers Using SKA-Low

Speaker: chao zhang (Nanjing University)

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch

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

14:30 Coffee

15:00 Coding / software discussion & hands-on