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

LOFAR: Talks

1 TBC

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

2 Simulating cosmic rays with CRPropa

Speaker: Amber Duijndam (Radboud University)

3 TBC

Speaker: Tjibbe Gottmer (Radboud University)

12:30 Lunch

Coding / software discussion & hands-on

Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.

4 LOFAR Data pipeline discussion & hands-on

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

15:00 Coffee / Tea / Biscuits?

5 LOFAR Data pipeline discussion & hands-on

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

Tuesday 19 May

SKA: Talks

6 Welcome

Speaker: Anna Nelles

7 Strategy and timeline for SKA activities

Speaker: Tim Huege (KIT & VUB)

8 Double bumps

Speaker: Vital De Henau (VUB)

10:30 Coffee

9 TBC

Speaker: Arthur Corstanje (Radboud University)

10 Interference patterns in airshower radio emissions

Speaker: Fabian Kenbeek (Radboud University)

12:00 Lunch

Coding / software discussion & hands-on

Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.

11 LOFAR 1 Summary Paper Discussion

Speaker: Katie Mulrey (Radboud University)

12 Coding / software discussion & hands-on

14:30 Coffee

13 Coding / software discussion & hands-on

Wednesday 20 May

SKA: Talks

14 Radio detection of PeV Gamma Ray with SKA-Low

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

15 Air Shower Profile Reconstruction with SKA/LOFAR

Speaker: Keito Watanabe (KIT)

16 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?

17 Feasibility Analysis of Detecting Inclined Air Showers Using SKA-Low

Speaker: chao zhang (Nanjing University)

12:00 Lunch

Coding / software discussion & hands-on

Discussion and hands-on: how to develop software together, documentation, creating examples, github/gitlab etc.

18 Coding / software discussion & hands-on

14:30 Coffee

19 Coding / software discussion & hands-on