Conferences and meetings related to the project OPALES

Conferences and Workshops

• Conference "45th Rencontres de Moriond": 13/03/2010 - 20/03/2010, La Thuile, Italy (Chiara Ferrari's invited talk)
• Workshop " Wide Field X-ray Telescope": 25/11/2009 - 26/11/2009 (Chiara Ferrari's invited proceeding)
• Conference "The second Galileo - Xu Guangqi meeting": 12/07/2010 - 18/07/2010 (Chiara Ferrari's invited talk)
• Workshop "Probing the Radio Continuum Universe with SKA Pathfinders": 21/02/2011 - 25/02/2011, Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
• Conference "Semaine de l’Astrophysique Française 2011": 20/06/2011 - 23/06/2011, Paris, France(Chiara Ferrari's proceeding - poster presented)
• Workshop "Fourth International EMU Workshop": 12/09/2011 - 13/09/2011, Bologna, Italy (Chiara Ferrari's talk)
• Talk "Diffuse radio emission in galaxy clusters: a low frequency view", 27/09/2011 & 29/09/2011, lunch talks by Giulia Macario at:
  • NRAO Charlottesville, Virginia
  • NRL Washington D.C.
• LOFAR Workshop "First Science with LOFAR": 14/09/2011 - 15/09/2011, Dalfsen, The Netherlands
• Workshop "Atelier: Astrophysique avec CTA": 05/12/2011 - 06/12/2011, Grenoble, France (Chiara Ferrari's Invited talk)
• 219th American Astronomical Society meeting - Special Session: "First Science with LOFAR": 08/01/2012 - 12/01/2012, Austin, Texas, U.S. (Chiara Ferrari's Invited talk)
• Conference "IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP 2012": 25/03/2012 - 30/03/2012, Kyoto, Japan (Arwa Dabbech's poster)
• Workshop "International EMU meeting": 28/05/2012 - 29/05/2012, Sydney, Australia (Giulia Macario's talk)
• Conference "Exploring the Radio Continuum Universe with SKA Pathfinders": 30/05/2012 - 01/06/2012, Sydney, Australia (Chiara Ferrari's invited talk)
• Conference "Semaine de l’Astrophysique Française 2012": 05/06/2012 - 08/06/2012, Nice, France (LOFAR/SKA atelier organized by Chiara Ferrari; Chiara Ferrari's Talk 1; Chiara Ferrari's Talk 2)
• Invited seminar"Grands relevés radio avec LOFAR: premiers résultats sur les amas de galaxies": 23/10/2012, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon (Chiara Ferrari)
• Invited seminar "Grands relevés radio avec LOFAR: premiers résultats sur les amas de galaxies": 29/01/2013, Observatoire de Genève (Chiara Ferrari)
• Invited seminar "Galaxy clusters: a radio continuum view": 01/04/2013, NRAO Socorro Colloquium Schedule (Chiara Ferrari)
• Conference "Semaine de l’Astrophysique Française 2012": 04/06/2013 - 07/06/2013, Montpellier, France (Giulia Macario's talk)
• Conference "Multi-Scale Structure Formation and Dynamics in Cosmic Plasmas": 15/04/2013 - 19/04/2013, Berne, Switzerland (Invited review talk by C. Ferrari)
• IRA Colloquia: 15/05/2013, Bologna Italy (Invited seminar by G. Macario)
• Invited seminar "LOFAR Surveys and First Results on Galaxy Clusters": 28/06/2013, LAM, Marseille, France (Chiara Ferrari)
• LOFAR Workshop "Second Collaboration Science Workshop": 18/03/2013 - 22/03/2013, Dalfsen, The Netherlands (Chiara Ferrari's talk)
• Workshop " SKA Continuum Science Assessment": 09/09/2013 - 11/09/2013, SKA Office, Jodrell Bank, UK (Chiara Ferrari's invited talk)
• Workshop "Journées radio SKA-LOFAR": 11/02/2013 - 13/02/2014, Paris, France (Chiara Ferrari's invited talk)
• Workshop "La science avec NenuFAR": 13/02/2014 - 14/02/2014, Paris, France (Chiara Ferrari's talk)
• LOFAR Workshop " LOFAR Science 2014": 07/04/2014 - 11/04/2014, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Chiara Ferrari's talks (2))
• Workshop " SPARCS/EMU/MIGHTEE": 04/06/2014 - 06/06/2014, Catania, Italy (Chiara Ferrari's talk)
• Conference "Advancing Astrophysics with the Square Kilometre Array": 09/06/2014 - 13/06/2014, Giardini Naxos, Italy (Chiara Ferrari's talk)

Meetings

• First meeting of all the participants to the project: 12/10/2009, 14:00, PHC meeting room, Observatoire de Nice (Report of the first meeting of the project OPALES: Report1.pdf)
• Meeting "Data Processing and Radioastronomy": 07/06/2010, 14:00, PHC meeting room, Observatoire de Nice (Report of the meeting: Report2.pdf - Talk of introduction: Talk2.pdf)
• Meeting "Data Processing and Radioastronomy - Part 2": 10/09/2010, 10:00, PHC meeting room, Observatoire de Nice (Report of the meeting: Report3.pdf - Talk of David Mary: Talk3.pdf)
• Meeting "Low-Frequency Radioastronomy": 08/06/2011, 10:00, Boullier meeting room, Observatoire de Nice (Talk and Discussion with Dr. H. Intema, NRAO, U.S.)
• Meeting "Reconstruction of radio-interferometric images using sparse representations": 06/07/2011, 10:00, Fizeau meeting room, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis - Presentation of the work done by Aroua Dabbech (Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie) during her stage at O.C.A. financed by the ANR project OPALES
• Meeting "Deconvolution and sparse representations #1": 06/02/2012 - 07/02/2012, ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands (discussion of the development of our sparse representation technique for LOFAR data; participants: C. Ferrari, E. Slezak, A. Dabbech, O. Smirnov, E. Orrù, M. Brentjens)
• Meeting "Low Frequency observations of radio halos": 12/2012, IRA, Bologna, Italy (discussion about 150 MHz observations of galaxy clusters; participants: G. Macario, H. Intema, T. Venturi, G. Brunetti, D. Dallacasa
• Meeting "Deconvolution and sparse representations #2": 30/07/2012 - 02/08/2012, Observatoire de Nice (discussion of the development of our sparse representation technique for LOFAR data; participants: C. Ferrari, A. Dabbech)
• Meeting "Low Frequency observations of radio halos": 02/2013, IRA, Bologna, Italy (discussion about 150 MHz observations of galaxy clusters; participants: G. Macario, T. Venturi, G. Brunetti, D. Dallacasa)
• Meeting for MPRHS project: 05/2013, RA, Bologna, Italy (G. Macario, T. Venturi, G. Brunetti, D. Dallacasa, M. Johnston-Hollitt)
• Meeting for MPRHS project: 06/2013, RA, Bologna, Italy (G. Macario, T. Venturi, G. Brunetti, D. Dallacasa, M. Johnston-Hollitt)
• LOFAR Busy Weeks (commissioning of the instrument) attended by participants to the OPALES project:
  • September 2009 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • January 2010 (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • September 2010 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • January 2011 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • September 2011 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • March 2012 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • June 2012 (Münich, Germany)
  • January 2013 (Leiden, The Netherlands)
  • April 2013 (Manchester, U.K.)
• Regular videoconferences attended by all the LOFAR commissioners organized every second week: since beginning 2011
• LOFAR MSSS (Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey) Busy Weeks attended by participants to the OPALES project:
  • February 2012 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • March 2012 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • April 2012 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • November 2012 (ASTRON, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)
  • Since January 2013: regular participation of C. Ferrari and G. Macario to the MSSS project remotely (worknig in Nice in direct collaboration with Dutch and other international institutes)