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Here Is an Opportunity to Advertise Your Poster Within 1 Minute Logging, Laxze Hitotsuba, Front: 2nd Floor Welcome Party (27th May) Reception, 1st Floor May 28 (Mon) - June 2 (Sat), 2018, Cottage Himuka, Miyazaki, Japan http://ska-jp.org/ws/SKAJP_MAGWS2018/ #SKA_JAPAN_MAG2018 PROGRAM Talks Invited talks are 30 min + 10 min for questions. Contributed talks are 15 min + 5 min. Please check the connection to the projector before your talk. Posters Posters should be a maximum of A0 size format, in portrait orientation. There is an opportunity to advertise your poster within 1 minute. Please check the connection to the projector before your talk. Twitter If you post on Twitter about the conference, please use the hashtag #SKA_JAPAN_MAG2018 Time Table Time 28 Mon 29 Tue 30 Wed 31 Thu 1 Fri 2 Sat 09:00-09:20 Opening T. Kawashima V. Vacca B. Gaensler 09:20-09:40 H. Takahashi S. Ideguchi 09:40-10:00 H. Akamatsu Discussion 4 T. Vernstrom 10:00-10:20 C. Purcell M. Takizawa C. Van Eck 10:20-10:40 W. Raja M Hoeft Coffee/Tea AIPS 10:40-11:00 Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea (40 min) POSSUM CASA 11:00-11:20 (40 min) (40 min) (40 min) Tutorial G. Heald 11:20-11:40 Y. Miyashita A. Hills V. Ravi 11:40-12:00 P. Arras T. Zenko J. Farnes 12:00-12:20 T. Akahori J. Bray J. West Summary & 12:20-12:40 Discussion 1 Discussion 2+3 M. Alves Discussion 12:40-13:40 Lunch (60 min) 13:40-14:00 J. Green D. Ryu S. O’Sullivan 14:00-14:20 O. Kameya 14:20-14:40 M. Langer C. Anderson A. Thomson 14:40-15:00 T. Minoda Y. K. Ma J.-B. Durrive 15:00-15:20 Poster A. Pasetto Coffee/Tea 15:20-15:40 Coffee/Tea Coffee/Tea (40 min) Tomo 15:40-16:00 (40 min) (40 min) S. Katsuda POSSUM graphy 16:00-16:20 J. Schober Y. Kudo J. Shimoda Tutorial 16:20-16:40 K. Kunze M. Machida H. Sakemi 16:40-17:00 J. Donnert M. Krause T. Omura 17:00-17:20 S. Roh H. Nakanishi M. Nomura 17:20-17:40 F. Loi S. S. Sridhar Discussion 5 17:40-18:00 D. Sokoroff M. Kierdorf 18:30~ Dinner Banquet Dinner Dinner Dinner Session ID: 1=Tomography 2=LSS/GC 3=Messenger 4=Galaxies/AGN 5=Milky Way 6=Project Monday 28th May Start End Talk Title Speaker 09:00 09:20 Opening Remarks SOC & LOC Session 1: Faraday Tomography 1 (Chair: Keitaro Takahashi) The Power of Faraday Tomography: Basics and 09:20 10:00 Shinsuke Ideguchi Applications to Cosmic Magnetism study Modelling Faraday Active Spectra for POSSUM 10:00 10:20 Cormac Purcell Early Science new Generation Radio Telescopes: Challenges in 10:20 10:40 Wasim Raja Instrumental Calibration 10:40 11:20 Coffee/Tea Performance test of QU-fit in cosmic magnetism 11:20 11:40 Yoshimitsu Miyashita study 11:40 12:00 RESOLVE -- Latest Developments Philipp Arras Optimum Frequency for Studying the IGMF 12:00 12:20 Takuya Akahori with Faraday Tomography 12:20 12:40 Discussion on Session 1 12:40 13:40 Lunch Session 2: Cosmology, Large-scale Structure, and Galaxy clusters (Chair: Motokazu Takizawa) Cosmic Magnetic Fields: A Theorist View of the 13:40 14:20 Dongsu Ryu Nature and Origin Magnetizing the Cosmic Web during 14:20 14:40 Mathieu Langer Reionization thermal Sunyaev-Zel’dovich effect in the IGM 14:40 15:00 Teppei Minoda due to the primordial magnetic fields Marijke Haverkorn Chikaedo Ogbodo 15:00 15:20 Keinji Nakamura Kohei Kurahara Poster Presentations Cathy Horellou 15:20 16:00 Coffee/Tea EPFL Chiral dynamos and the origin of cosmic 16:00 16:20 Jennifer Schober magnetic fields Tracing primordial magnetic fields with 21 cm 16:20 16:40 Kerstin Kunze line observations Towards Exascale simulations of the ICM 16:40 17:00 Julius Donnert dynamo with Wombat Magnetic fields in clusters of galaxies: a 17:00 17:20 Soonyoung Roh simulation study Simulations of the polarized sky of the SKA: how 17:20 17:40 Francesca Loi to constrain intracluster magnetic fields Wavelet RM synthesis versus fitting parametric 17:40 18:00 models for reconstruction magnetic field Dmitry Sokoloff structure 18:30 --- Dinner Memo Tuesday 29th May Start End Talk Title Speaker Session 2: Continue (Chair: Hiroyuki Nakanishi) Magnetic fields in Galaxy Clusters and in the 09:00 09:40 Valentina Vacca Large-Scale Structure of the Universe Synergy between X-ray and low-frequency radio 09:40 10:00 telescopes on particle accelerations in galaxy Hiroki Akamatsu clusters X-ray and radio observations of the radio relic 10:00 10:20 galaxy clusters 1RXS J0603.3+4214 and RXC Motokazu Takizawa J1053.7+5453 The Toothbrush Radio Relic: Filaments and 10:20 10:40 Matthias Hoeft Polarization 10:40 11:20 Coffee/Tea Session 3: High Energy Magnetism Messengers from Space (Chair: Hiroki Akamatsu) Fast Radio Burst tomography of the circum- and 11:40 12:00 Vikram Ravi inter-galactic medium Limits on cosmic magnetic fields from cosmic- 12:00 12:20 Justin Bray ray results 12:20 12:40 Discussion on Sessions 2 and 3 12:40 13:40 Lunch Session 4: Galaxies and AGN (Chair: Jamie Farnes) Untangling cosmic magnetic fields: Applications 13:40 14:20 Shane O’Sullivan of broadband radio spectro-polarimetry The structure of magnetized thermal plasma in 14:20 14:40 Craig Anderson the lobes of Fornax A an Centaurus A Broadband Investigation of NVSS High Rotation 14:40 15:00 Yik Ki Ma Measure Extragalactic Radio Sources Broad-band spectropolarimetric observation of 15:00 15:20 Alice Pasetto high-RM AGN 15:20 16:00 Coffee/Tea 3D Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of AGN 16:00 16:20 Yuki Kudo Torus Faraday depolarization effects of the spiral 16:20 16:40 Mami Machida galaxies Magnetic fields in the halo of spiral galaxies seen 16:40 17:00 Marita Krause edge-on – as deduced from CHANG-ES Magnetic field vector maps of nearby spiral 17:00 17:20 Hiroyuki Nakanishi galaxies Revealing the nature of anomalous arms in 17:20 17:40 Sarrvesh Seethapuram Sridhar NGC4258 using Faraday Tomography Probing the Magnetized Disk-Halo Interaction in 17:40 18:00 Maja Kierdorf M51 via Wideband Polarimetry 18:30 --- Dinner Memo Wednesday 30th May Start End Talk Title Speaker Session 4: Continue (Chair: Mami Machida) 09:00 09:20 On a spin signature in black hole shadow of M87 Tomohisa Kawashima Numerical Study of Supercritical Accretion onto 09:20 09:40 Hiroyuki Takahashi Black Holes and Neutron Stars 09:40 10:00 Discussion on Session 4 Session 5: Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way (Chair: Mami Machida) The Power of Low-Frequencies: Faraday 10:00 10:40 Cameron Van Eck Tomography with LOFAR 10:40 11:20 Coffee/Tea Faraday tomography of the Milky Way ISM with 11:20 11:40 Alex Hills GMIMS Magnetic field of Milky Way by near-infrared 11:40 12:00 Tetsuya Zenko polarimetry of Cepheids Searching for helical magnetic fields in the Milky 12:00 12:20 Jennifer West Way 12:20 12:40 The Local Bubble: a magnetic veil to our Galaxy Marta Alves 12:40 13:40 Lunch Session 5: Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way (Chair: Marijke Haverkorn) The Power of Zeeman: Mapping Magnetic fields 13:40 14:00 Jimi Green in our Galaxy through masers Structure of electron density and magnetic field 14:00 14:20 Osamu Kameya in the Milky Way Galaxy Uniform fields in Hii Regions revealed by 14:20 14:40 Alec Thomson GMIMS Analytic growth rate of gravitational instability in 14:40 15:00 Jean-Baptiste Durrive self-gravitating planar polytropes 15:00 15:20 Coffee/Tea H-alpha Polarization Measurements of Tycho’s 15:20 16:00 Satoru Katsuda Eastern Limb with the Subaru FOCAS On Measuring the Turbulent Magnetic Energy 16:00 16:20 Spectrum in Supernova remnant by Correlation Jiro Shimoda Analysis of Radio Synchrotron Intensity Propagation and Structure of Astrophysical Jets 16:20 16:40 Takumi Omura by Two-temperature Magnetohydrodynamics Faraday Tomography of the SS544 Jet Terminal 16:40 17:00 Haruka Sakemi Region Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of a Plunging 17:00 17:20 Mariko Nomura Black Hole into a Molecular Cloud 17:20 17:40 Discussion on Session 5 17:40 18:00 Free time 18:30 --- Dinner Memo Thursday 31th May Start End Talk Title Speaker Session 6: Amazing Magnetism Projects (Chair: Takuya Akahori) POSSUM: First Results from Wide Field 09:00 09:40 Bryan Gaensler Polarization Surveys 09:40 10:20 MWA Tessa Vernstrom 10:20 11:00 Coffee/Tea 11:00 11:40 LOFAR MSSS George Heald The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Science Data 11:40 12:00 Jamie Farnes Processor Integration Prototype 12:00 12:40 Summary and Discussion 12:40 14:00 Lunch POSSUM Meeting 14:00 18:00 POSSUM 18:30 --- Dinner Friday 1st May Start End Talk Title Speaker POSSUM Meeting 09:00 12:40 POSSUM 12:40 14:00 Lunch Tutorial of Faraday Tomography 14:00 18:00 Tutorial 18:30 --- Dinner Saturday 2st May Start End Talk Title Speaker Tutorial of AIPS/CASA 09:00 12:40 Tutorial 12:40 Conference Close CODE OF CONDUCT Our conference aims to provide a wide range of opportunities for our scientific presentation, productive discussion, and enjoyable conversation among all of the participants. 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