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Arranged by LOIS Space Centre, Växjö and PHISP, IRF, Uppsala
In collaboration with Växjö University and Videum Science Park
Sponsored by CDP, Uppsala University, IBM Sweden and the Swedish National Space Board
PROGRAMME

MONDAY, JUNE 16
Venue: Växjö Concert Hall

09:00-12:00 Registration and welcome
09:00 Registration
Sarah Hansson, IRF, Lund, SE
11:45 Welcome
Bo Thidé, IRF, Uppsala, and LOIS, Växjö, SE
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 New diagnostic methods in radio and optics - Fundamental aspects
Chair: Bo Thidé
13:00 Twisted photons: An introduction to the Photon Angular Momentum
Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, ES (Invited tutorial lecture)
13:45 Rotation and angular momentum of classical and quantized Maxwell fields
Gerard Nienhuis, University of Leiden, NL (Invited tutorial lecture)
14:30 Angular Diffraction and Angular Uncertainty
Sonja Franke-Arnold, University of Glasgow, UK (Invited)
15:00-15:15 Coffee/Tea
15:15-17:00 New diagnostic methods in radio and optics - Fundamental aspects
Chair: Bo Thidé
15:15 Discovering orbital angular momentum of astronomical radiation
Marco Beijersbergen, cosine Research BV, Leiden, NL (Invited tutorial lecture)
16:00 Conserved quantities in classical electrodynamics and their use in radio studies of space
Jan Bergman, IRF, Uppsala, SE (Invited)
16:30 The photon wavefunction, a covariant formulation: From Majorana to the second quantization
Fabrizio Tamburini, University of Padova, IT (Invited)
17:00-21:00 Registration and socialising
17:00 Registration (continued)
Sarah Hansson, IRF, Lund, SE
19:30 Get together
Swedish National Space Board
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
Venue: Växjö Concert Hall

08:30-10:15 New diagnostic methods in radio and optics - Analysis and applications
Chair: Willem Baan
08:30 Polarimetry and angular momentum detection with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Tobia Carozzi, University of Glasgow, UK (Invited)
09:00 Analytic formulas for the mechanical properties of radio waves emitted by an antenna array
Holger Then, Carl-von-Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, DE (Invited)
09:30 What is the total angular momentum of a twisted photon?
Gabriel Molina-Terriza, Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, ES
10:00 Visualisation of electromagnetic observables in radio
Siavoush Mohammadi, IRF, Uppsala, SE
10:15-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-12:00 Challenges and possibilities in Radio Astronomy
Chair: Tobia Carozzi
10:30 Radio astronomy with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope
Subramaniam Ananthakrishnan, University of Pune, IN (Invited)
11:00 Orbital angular momentum in radio astronomy
Willem Baan, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, NL (Invited)
11:30 Internet interferometry at Onsala; centimetre wave VLBI and LOFAR
John Conway, Onsala Space Observatory, SE
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 Challenges and possibilities in Astrophysics and Space Physics
Chair: Jan Bergman
13:00 Space physics and radio astronomy in Poland: present and future
Marek Banaszkiewicz, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, PL (Invited)
13:30 Cosmic antiparticles and outreach at KTH
Mark Pearce, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, SE (Invited)
14:00 Status of the Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment
Daniel Hogan, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
14:30 Search for exotic particles with the AMANDA neutrino telescope
Arvid Pohl, University of Kalmar, SE
14:45 Radio frequency pumping of ionospheric plasma with orbital angular momentum
Thomas Leyser, IRF, Uppsala, SE
15:00-15:15 Coffee/Tea
15:15-17:15 Challenges and possibilities in Astrophysics and Space Physics
Chair: Subramaniam Ananthakrishnan
15:15 Solar physics and space weather with LOFAR
Gottfried Mann, Astrophysikalisches Institut, Potsdam, DE (Invited)
15:45 Earth's electromagnetic environment - a challenge for space research and technological applications
Hanna Rothkaehl, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, PL (Invited)
16:15 Type II radio bursts and shock formation in the corona and near-Sun interplanetary space
Gottfried Mann, Astrophysikalisches Institut, Potsdam, DE
16:45 ARTEMIS experience in studying solar events at radio frequencies
Xenophon Moussas, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, GR
19:00- General Scientific Presentation and Dinner
19:00 The Antikythera Mechanism, the oldest astronomical instrument and computer
Xenophon Moussas, National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, GR
19:30 Workshop Dinner
IBM Sweden
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18
Venue: Växjö Concert Hall

08:30-10:15 Diagnostic of space turbulence by using EM beam topology. Calibration methods
Chair: Bruce Elmegreen
08:30 Full-scale simulation studies of ionospheric turbulence
Bengt Eliasson, Umeå University, SE, and University of Bochum, DE (Invited)
09:00 Ionospheric Calibration for LOFAR
Maaijke Mevius, Kapteyn Institute, Groningen, NL
09:30 Use of LOIS radio systems for observations of natural and pumped turbulence
Brett Isham, Interamerican University, Bayamón PR, US
09:45-10:15 System control and data management
Chair: Bengt Eliasson
09:45 Scheduling for sensor networks
Welf Löwe, Växjö University, Uppsala, SE (Invited)
10:15-10:30 Coffee/Tea
10:30-12:00 System control and data management
Chair: Bengt Eliasson
10:30 Overview of System S for radio astronomy
Bruce Elmegreen, IBM Research, USA (Invited)
11:00 Real-time analysis of radio field vector data
Lars Daldorff, IRF, Uppsala, SE
11:30 Ways to break the Petaflop barrier in high performance computing
Carl Tengwall, IBM Systems & Technology Group, Stockholm, SE
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-15:00 New facilities, workshops and symposia. Discussion and summary.
13:00 LOIS - Status and outlook
Bo Thidé, IRF, Uppsala, and LOIS, Växjö, SE


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