Monday, May 10 | ||
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Registration | |
| 20:00 | Welcome dinner at hotel Lungomare | |
Tuesday, May 11 | ||
| Chair: Loretta Gregorini | ||
| 08:30 -09:00 | Extended time for registration | |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Parma | Welcome and Logistics |
| 09:10 - 09:30 | Laing | Aims of the Workshop |
Session 1: RM in Large-scale Structure, Clusters, Groups and Galaxies | ||
| Session 1a - Overview | ||
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Kronberg | Overview of magnetic probes of the extragalactic Universe |
| Session 1b - Large-scale structure: observations | ||
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Giovannini | Evidence of magnetic fields in cosmological galaxy filaments |
| *** 10:30 - 11:00 | ** Coffee Break | |
| Session 1c - Clusters: observations | ||
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Brentjens | Wide Field WSRT polarimetry around the Perseus cluster at 350 MHz |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Murgia | Rotation measure synthesis of radio halos in clusters of galaxies |
| *** 12:00 - 14:00 | ** Lunch at Hotel Lungomare | |
| Chair: Gregory Taylor | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Bonafede | The Coma cluster magnetic field from Faraday RM |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | Vacca | The intra-cluster magnetic field power spectrum in relaxed galaxy clusters from rotation measure studies |
| Session 1d - Clusters: theory | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Dolag | Simulating Magnetic Fields in Clusters of Galaxies |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Krause | Synthetic polarisation observations of simulated jets interacting with magnetised intracluster gas |
| *** 16:00 - 16:30 | ** Tea | |
| Session 1e - Interpretation | ||
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Ensslin | Galactic and intergalactic magnetic field inference |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Junklewitz | Imprints of magnetic power and helicity spectra on radio polarimetry statistics |
| Session 1f - RM in Clusters and Large-scale structure: discussion 1 | ||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | All | Discussion |
Wednesday, May 12 | ||
| Chair: Matteo Murgia | ||
| Session 1g - RM in Galaxies and groups | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Laing | Faraday rotation in and around radio galaxies |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Macquart | Faraday Rotation Structure on Kiloparsec scales in the giant lobes of Centaurus A |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Guidetti | Anisotropic fluctuations of Faraday rotation across radio galaxies |
| *** 10:30 - 11:00 | ** Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | J.Broderick | Polarimetric properties of MRC B1221-423: a compact radio source in a merging galaxy |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Mantovani | CSSs polarimetry at sub-arcsecond resolution |
| Session 1h - RM in Clusters and Large-scale structure: discussion 2 | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | All | Discussion |
| *** 12:30 - 14:00 | ** Lunch at Hotel Lungomare | |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Free time for poster viewing etc. | |
| *** 15:30 - 16:00 | ** Tea | |
Session 2: Techniques | ||
| Chair: Franco Mantovani | ||
| Session 2a - Instrumental | ||
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Anderson | Polarization Measurements with LOFAR: Preparing for the Cosmic Magnetism Key Science Project |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Cotton | Wide Field Instrumental Polarization and its Correction |
| Session 2b - RM synthesis | ||
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Rudnick | Hidden rotation measures |
| Session 2c - Discussion: techniques | ||
| 17:30 - 18:00 | All | Discussion |
| *** 20:00 | ** Workshop dinner at Locanda `I Girasoli' | |
Thursday, May 13 | ||
| Chair: Tornsten Ensslin | ||
Session 3: Magnetic fields in pc-scale jets | ||
| Session 3a - RM Observations on pc scales | ||
| 09:00 - 09:30 | Gabuzda | Intriguing Asymmetries in Transverse RM Gradients - Evidence for Helical Fields Generated by a Cosmic Battery |
| 09:30 - 10:00 | Taylor | High Fidelity Rotation Measures Across Parsec-Scale Jets |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Gomez | Faraday rotation and polarization gradients in the jet of 3C120 |
| *** 10:30 - 11:00 | ** Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Hovatta | Faraday rotation in the MOJAVE blazars |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Tremblay | Polarization Properties of Active Galaxies on Parsec Scales |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Kovalev | Extreme Faraday rotation in AGN jets |
| *** 12:30 - 14:00 | ** Lunch at Hotel Lungomare | |
| Chair: Robert Laing | ||
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Mahmud | Connecting Magnetic Towers with Faraday Rotation Gradients in the Jets of Active Galactic Nuclei |
| 14:30 - 15:00 | O'Sullivan | The Parsec-Scale Faraday Rotation Measure Distribution of Quasars at z > 3 |
| Session 3b - RM on pc scales: interpretation | ||
| 15:00 - 15:30 | A.Broderick | Measuring the Geometry of AGN Core Magnetic Fields |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Clausen-Brown | Observational Signatures of Helical Magnetic Fields in Parsec Scale AGN Jets |
| *** 16:00 - 16:30 | ** Tea | |
| Session 3c - pc-scale RM's: discussion | ||
| 16:30 - 18:00 | All | Discussion |