Name: LOFAR Family Meeting 2025
Start: 2025-09-22T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-09-26T13:05:00+02:00
Location: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

LOFAR Family Meeting 2025

from Monday, 22 September 2025 (09:00) to Friday, 26 September 2025 (13:05)

Monday, 22 September 2025

09:00 Welcome
Welcome
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 Science talks
09:15 - 10:45
Contributions

09:15 Recent Advances in the LOFAR-EoR and NenuFAR Cosmic Dawn Projects - Florent Mertens (Paris Observatory (LUX))

09:45 Overdispersed radio source counts and excess radio dipole detection - Lukas Böhme (Bielefeld University)

10:00 WEAVE-LOFAR: Harnessing the Power of Low-Frequency Radio Observations Using Optical Spectroscopy - Marina Arnaudova (The University of Edinburgh)

10:30 Radio-Detected Lyα Emitters at $1.88 < z < 3.52$: AGN Fraction and Lyα Visibility - Sai Zhai (Leiden University)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Science talks
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 The role of galaxy properties and environmental factors on radio AGN prevalence - Lara Alegre (University of Hertfordshire)

11:30 Studies of compact AGNs at low frequencies with LOFAR - Aleksandra Krauze (Nicolaus Copernicus University)

11:45 Sub-arcsecond wide-field imaging with the LOFAR LBA - Henrik Edler (ASTRON)

12:15 A view of radio relics at sub-arcsecond resolution with LOFAR - Gabriella Di Gennaro (INAF-IRA)

12:30 Searching for revived fossil plasma sources in galaxy clusters - Luca Bruno (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12:45 New Scaling Relations of Galaxy Cluster Radio Halos - Marco Balboni (DIFA UNIBO - IASF Milan)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 Science talks
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Unveiling the Spectral Properties of Radio Halos in the Galaxy Clusters of the LOFAR sky survey - Koushika Sri Lakshmi srikanth (IRA-INAF Bologna)

14:45 Magnetic fields inside and beyond galaxy clusters with LOFAR - Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)

15:15 Galactic fields in the LoTSS - Maria Arias (Leiden Observatory)

15:30 Magnetic fields in planetary nebulae revealed by LOFAR - Marcin Hajduk (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)

15:45 ApPolLo- Apertif counterparts of polarised LOFAR sources - Anna Berger (Bielefeld University)
16:00 Poster flash talks
16:00 - 16:15
Contributions

16:00 Interpreting the 21-cm signal with accurate simulations : impact of Bayesian inference methods and modelling uncertainty - Romain Meriot (Imperial College)

16:01 Evolution of large-scale magnetism through radio observations - Gabriella Di Gennaro (INAF-IRA)

16:02 Tracking AGN Recurrent Activity: A Spectral Ageing Study of Giant DDRGs - Mousumi Mahato (Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia)

16:03 Probing the environments of FRI and FRII radio galaxies in LoTSS DR2 with galaxy clusters - Tong Pan (Leiden Observatory)

16:04 The evolution of extragalactic peaked-spectrum sources down to 54 megahertz - Sai Zhai (Leiden University)

16:05 Evolution of radio AGN up to z~6 with LOFAR - Lars Abbo (Leiden Observatory)

16:06 ViCTORIA project: exploring galaxy evolution and magnetic fields in the Virgo Cluster with LOFAR and MeerKAT - Alessandro Benati (INAF - IRA)

16:07 Tracing the growth and evolution of double-lobed radio quasars to z~4.2 with a large sample - Pratik Dabhade (Astrophysics Division, NCBJ, Warsaw, Poland)

16:08 The LBA view of bright radio galaxies and their science with long baselines - Jort Boxelaar (INAF - IRA)

16:09 Probing clusters outskirts: what can megahalos tell us? - Matteo Cianfaglione (INAF - IRA - University of Bologna)

16:10 Identification of H II Regions through Cross-Matching LOFAR LoTSS DR-3 and WISE Catalogs - Patrycja Szybowska

16:12 Towards the first LoTSS catalog of diffuse cluster radio sources with machine learning - Chiara Stuardi (IRA INAF)

16:13 Echoes from the Edge: Unusual Radio Emission in the Outskirts of Abell 168 - Duy Hoang (Thüringer Landessternwarte - TLS)

16:14 Resolving the host galaxies of emission-line, infrared, and radio AGN - Gaoxiang Jin (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)
16:15 Poster viewing + coffee / tea break
Poster viewing + coffee / tea break
16:15 - 17:00
17:00 Science talks
17:00 - 17:45
Contributions

17:00 Black hole jets on the scale of the Cosmic Web - Martijn Oei (Caltech)

17:30 From activation to afterglow: Duty cycles and restarted activity in peaked-spectrum radio sources - Anupama Mohanan (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Poland)
19:00 Welcome reception
Welcome reception
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
09:00 Science talks
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 The deepest radio image using the full European LOFAR - Jurjen de Jong

09:15 Tracing Turbulence and Shocks: LOFAR’s Exploration of Galaxy Cluster Radio Emission - Reinout van Weeren (Leiden University)

09:45 Revealing the intricacies of radio galaxies and filaments in the galaxy cluster Abell 2255 - Emanuele De Rubeis (Università di Bologna (UNIBO) & Istituto di Radioastronomia (INAF-IRA))

10:00 First LOFAR LBA View of the Sausage Cluster at 45 MHz - Giulia Lusetti (Open University)

10:15 The Perseus cluster with LOFAR LBA - Christian Groeneveld (INAF - IRA)

10:30 The radio and optical morphological properties of LOFAR sources in the Euclid Deep Field North - Manuela Magliocchetti
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Science talks
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Searching for LOFAR-selected optical/NIR-dark galaxies in the EDFN - Marika Giulietti (IRA-INAF)

11:30 From clusters and groups to the cosmic field: environmental drivers of AGN evolution in LoTSS DR2 - Thomas Pasini (Istituto di Radioastronomia IRA-INAF)

11:45 The Fraction of Radio-Loud AGN in the Euclid Deep Field North - Scott Visser (PhD Candidate at the Leiden Observatory, Leiden University)

12:00 The largest samples of radio-luminous AGN from wide-area LOFAR surveys - Martin Hardcastle (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

12:15 The LOFAR view of the EDFN - Marco Bondi (INAF-IRA)

12:45 The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - Timothy Shimwell (ASTRON)
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 14:00
14:00 Observatory Session: Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
Building the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
14:00 - 15:25
Contributions

14:00 Welcome - R. Pizzo

14:05 Development and Evolution of the LOFAR2.0 Science Programme - M. van Haarlem

14:25 Developing the LOFAR2.0 observing capabilities - W. van Cappellen

14:40 Developing the LOFAR2.0 data processing system - R. Pizzo & John Swinbank

14:55 LENSS - LOFAR Enhanced Network for Sharp Surveys - Leah Morabito (Durham University) Violette Impellizzeri

15:10 Scientific & Technical Committee - link to the users community - R. van Weeren
15:25 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
15:25 - 16:00
16:00 Observatory Session: Commissioning and Operating the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
Commissioning and Operating the LOFAR2.0 Observatory
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:00 Operating the LOFAR2.0 observatory - R. Pizzo

16:15 LOFAR2.0 commissioning & commissioning areas - M. Brentjens E. van der Wateren E. Orru T. Shimwell M. Iacobelli

16:45 LOFAR2.0 Processing Pipelines - T. Shimwell

17:15 Lightning talks - commissioning results - Commissioners
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
09:00 Science talks
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Probing AGN spectral indices with Apertif and LOFAR - Alexander Kutkin (ASTRON)

09:15 The LOFAR LBA Sky Survey: second release and plans for LOFAR2 - Francesco de Gasperin (IRA INAF)

09:30 Reprocessing the Full LOTAAS Survey with Improved Methods: Paving the Way for Commensal LOFAR 2.0 Transient Searches - Dirk Kuiper (University of Amsterdam)

09:45 Nearby galaxies with LOFAR - Rosita Paladino (INAF- Istituto di radioastronomia)

10:15 The low-frequency radio-star formation rate relation in nearby galaxies - Volker Heesen (Universität Hamburg)

10:30 Cosmic ray electron propagation and the radio-IR correlation in IC342 - Fatemeh Tabatabaei (School of Astronomy, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), PO Box 19395-5531, Tehran, Iran)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Science talks
11:15 - 13:00
Contributions

11:15 Fast radio bursts: the LOFAR bass notes - Akshatha Gopinath (University of Amsterdam)

11:45 Transients in the image plane with LOFAR2.0 - Antonia Rowlinson (University of Amsterdam & ASTRON)

12:15 Initial Results from Transient Searches in the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - Reshma Anna Thomas (ASTRON)

12:30 Detecting radio transients with LOFAR using LoTSS - Sylvain Ranguin

12:45 Magnetic fields in dense molecular cores: a new perspective from meter-wavelength radio data - Andrea Bracco (INAF - OAA, LPENS)
13:00 Conference picture
Conference picture
13:00 - 13:20

20:00 Conference dinner
Conference dinner
20:00 - 23:00
Thursday, 25 September 2025
09:00 Science talks
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Signature of the local structures in Low-Frequency Radio Observations - Vibor Jelic (Ruder Boskovic Institute)

09:30 Cosmic ray measurements with LOFAR, and the road to SKA - Anna Nelles

10:00 An overview of the cosmic-ray particle detector array at LOFAR - Katie Mulrey (Radboud)

10:15 Spectral features and scintillation studies of Cas A from low-frequency observations with NenuFAR - Lev Stanislavsky (Junior Researcher, Institute of Radio Astronomy, Kharkiv, Ukraine)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Science talks
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Detections of Carbon Radio Recombination Lines with the NenuFAR telescope - Lucie Cros (LPENS)

11:30 Blazars in the LOFAR Era - Hrishikesh Shetgaonkar (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)

11:45 From Radio to Optical: Streamlining Source Identification in LoTSS DR3 - Bonny Barkus (University of Hertfordshire)

12:00 LoTSS-HR: The high-resolution post-processing of the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey - Roland Timmerman (Durham University)

12:15 When Satellites Speak Loudly: Polarized Starlink Emission Below 100 MHz Seen by NenuFAR - Xiang Zhang (Observatoire de Paris)
12:45 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:45 - 14:30
14:30 Science talks
14:30 - 16:00
Contributions

14:30 Near-field satellite detection using LOFAR and GRAVES - Floris Martens (Leiden University / ASTRON)

14:45 Navigating the spectrum: regulatory realities and RFI challenges for LOFAR - Emma van der Wateren (ASTRON)

15:00 RISER – Using LOFAR to Track Space Weather Through the Heliosphere-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System - Mario Bisi (UKRI STFC RAL Space)

15:15 SIMPL Solutions for Complex Solar Challenges: A New LOFAR Solar Imaging Pipeline - Soham Dey (National Centre for Radio Astrophysics)

15:30 Solar and Space Weather Observations with LOFAR - Kamen Kozarev (Institute of Astronomy and National Astronomical Observatory, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
16:00 Poster flash talks
16:00 - 16:14
Contributions

16:00 Calibrating LOFAR data for solar physics using a sun model - Hyoyin Gan (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP))

16:01 Interplanetary scintillation for diagnostic of the Solar Wind. - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

16:02 Investigating Extreme Ionospheric Conditions with LOFAR: A Focus on the Mother's Day Superstorm - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

16:03 Comprehensive study of type II radio bursts and the properties of the associated shock waves - Karthik Bhandari (University of Turku)

16:04 Preliminary results of observing ionosphere activity using 3C sources - Jānis Šteinbergs

16:05 The solar radio bursts observations with LOFAR Baldy station and two CALLISTO spectrometers - Bartosz Dabrowski (Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn)

16:06 Magnetic Field Geometry and Anisotropic Scattering Effects on Solar Radio Burst Observations - Daniel Clarkson (University of Glasgow)

16:07 Exploring the LOFAR properties of the CARMENES M-dwarf star systems - Etienne Bonnassieux (IAA-CSIC)

16:08 Investigating double bump air showers - Vital De Henau (VUB)

16:09 Ionospheric and solar activity constraints on LOFAR observation scheduling - Aleksandar Shulevski

16:10 Characterising the Sensitivity Pattern of the Irish LOFAR Station (IE613) using Pulsar Observations - Letizia Vincetti (Trinity College Dublin (TCD) - School of Physics)

16:11 LOFAR Ionospheric Research Group: Advancing Ionospheric Science with LOFAR - Dorota Przepiórka-Skup (Centrum Badań Kosmicznych Polskiej Akademii Nauk)

16:12 Imaging uncalibrated LOFAR data for real-time transient hunts - Lars Zwaan (University of Amsterdam)

16:13 Investigation on resonant plasma structures and their role on ionospheric radio diagnostics by using LOFAR and GNSS Data and Modelling - Leszek Błaszkiewicz (Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, UWM Olsztyn)
16:15 Poster viewing + coffee / tea break
Poster viewing + coffee / tea break
16:15 - 17:00
17:00 Science talks
17:00 - 18:00
Contributions

17:00 Periodic changes in the dynamic spectra of pulsars as an effect of signal propagation through the ionosphere - Leszek Błaszkiewicz (Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, UWM Olsztyn)

17:15 Monitoring horizontal electron density gradient with LOFAR PL610 in single station mode - Dorota Przepiorka-Skup

17:30 Combination of LOFAR and GNSS observations for a statistical characterisation of ionospheric irregularities - Leszek Błaszkiewicz (Space Radio-Diagnostics Research Centre, UWM Olsztyn)

17:45 Dynamic Ionospheric Notifications for Operations and Scheduling (DINOS): Using Ionospheric Observations to Support LOFAR2.0 Operations - Gareth Dorrian (University of Birmingham)
Friday, 26 September 2025
09:00 Science talks
09:00 - 10:45
Contributions

09:00 Overview of advancements in understanding lightning initiation and propagation with LOFAR - Brian Hare (ASTRON)

09:15 New Insights into the Nature of Lightning Intiation via LOFAR Beamforming and ATRI-D - Christopher Sterpka (Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON), Dwingeloo, The Netherlands)

09:30 Investigating the origins of three acceleration episodes during a weak solar eruption accompanied by type II radio bursts - Sanna Normo (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland)

09:45 Comparative analysis of solar activity - Vergil Yotov (IA BAS, LOFAR-BG)

10:00 RISER – High-Resolution Visualisation of the Inner Heliosphere Using LOFAR - Richard Fallows (RAL Space - UKRI STFC)

10:15 Radio eyes for the Sun, Heliosphere and Ionosphere: Status and plans for the LOFAR2.0 era. - Pietro Zucca (ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for radio astronomy)

10:30 Galaxy detection with deep learning in radio data - David Cornu (LUX, Observatoire de Paris)
10:45 Coffee / tea break
Coffee / tea break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15 Science talks
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 The detection of circularly polarized radio bursts from stellar and exoplanetary systems - Cyril Tasse (Observatoire de Paris)

11:30 Stars at low frequencies - Sanne Bloot (ASTRON, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute)

12:00 VLBI with LOFAR and the EVN to resolve the structure of relativistic outflows in gamma-ray binaries - Benito Marcote (Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC)

12:15 Hunting Radio Bursts from Exoplanets and Brown Dwarfs with NenuFAR - Xiang Zhang (Observatoire de Paris - CNRS)

12:30 Expanding the search of radio exoplanets using the LOFAR Decameter Sky Survey (LoDeSS) - Cristina-Maria Cordun (ASTRON)
12:45 Conclusion
Conclusion
12:45 - 13:00

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