DAY 4
Thursday, May 25th
Session: Transients
Chair: W. Brisken
09:30 – 09:55 Kirsten – Many needles in the haystack – on the contribution of VLBI to cracking the FRB puzzle (invited)
09:55 – 10:10 Bhandari – The local radio environment of fast radio bursts and their progenitor implications
10:10 – 10:25 Atri – A VLBI search for pulsars without pulsations
10:25 – 10:40 Williams – Dynamic response to transients with e-MERLIN
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:35 Salafia – The role of VLBI observations in the context of multimessenger science (invited)
11:35 – 11:50 Gourdji – Constraining jets from gravitational wave mergers with VLBI: challenges and opportunities
11:50 – 12:05 Giarratana – Studying the dynamics and the structure of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the VLBI
12:05 – 12:20 Bietenholz – SN 2014C: Shell structure and deceleration reveal details of ejecta colliding with a dense circumstellar medium
12:20 – 12:50 Poster session (P21-P39)
12:50 – 14:05 Lunch
Session: Synergies
Chair: A. de Witt
14:05 – 14:30 Zhang – Introduction to FAST VLBI System (invited)
14:30 – 14:45 Marthi – Enabling VLBI for the upgraded GMRT
14:45 – 15:10 Loinard – VLBI astrometry in the epoch of Gaia (invited)
15:10 – 15:25 Garrington – Long Baseline Bistatic Radar
15:25 – 15:40 Md Said – A study of solar wind propagation using the Planetary Radio Interferometry and Doppler Experiment (PRIDE) technique
15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break
Session: Transients
Chair: M. Pérez-Torres
16:10 – 16:35 Motta – Multi-wavelength studies of X-ray binaries: the role of VLBI in understanding accretion and feedback around stellar-mass compact objects (invited)
16:35 – 16:50 Giroletti – Filming the evolution of symbiotic novae with VLBI
16:50 – 17:05 Guirado – Evidence of a radiation belt around a radio-emitting brown dwarf
17:05 – 17:20 Muxlow – 40 Years of Studying the Evolving Compact Radio Sources in M82
17:20 – 17:35 Leon Ortiz – VLBI architecture of a compact binary with exoplanet
17:35 – 18:05 Discussion