Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: 
Wide-Field Monitoring of the Dynamic Radio Sky

June 12-15 2007, Kerastari, Greece

First announcement:

Exotic and transient astrophysical phenomena reveal the violent and
capricious nature of the universe. Wide-field and all-sky monitoring
in the X-ray, gamma-ray, and more recently optical, bands has already
led to a wealth of discoveries such as magnetars and gamma-ray bursts
which probe extreme realms of physics and yet were not anticipated
prior to their discovery.  Radio telescopes have a tradition of
providing high angular resolution in narrow fields or large fields of
view with limited time resolution. A notable exception to this approach
led to the discovery of pulsars thirty years ago.

Several different routes to wide-field, or even all-sky, observations
with high time resolution are now appearing, on the road to the Square
Kilometre Array (SKA).  Coupled with this, the past few years have
seen the discovery of new classes of radio transient, such as the
RRATs and the Galactic Centre Radio Transient. This workshop will, for
the first time, combine the astrophysics of rapid radio variability
with the techniques of wide-field transient searches, in anticipation
of an exciting decade ahead of us.

Scientific topics will include all aspects of transient and rapidly
variable radio phenomena, including theory of explosive events and
particle acceleration, and observations of gamma ray bursts,
microquasars, pulsars and RRATs, flare stars, exoplanets,
scintillation and intra-day variability of Active Galactic
Nuclei. There will be extensive discussion of the coming new
generation of wide-field radio observatories (e.g. ATA, LOFAR, SKA
prototypes), and programs to monitor the radio sky to search for
known, unknown (i.e. serendipitous) and known unknown (e.g. SETI)
phenomena.

The meeting will be held in the Peloponnese region of Greece, in the
village of Kerastari, nestled in the mountains of ancient Arcadia
(close to the town of Tripolis), and we aim to schedule lots of time
for discussion and interaction, as well as relaxation. Based on past
experience, we will probably end the workshop with a large party
involving the whole village.

Participation at the workshop will be limited to ~80 people, and as a
result some selection may be necessary. We encourage all those
interested to pre-register via the simple form at the bottom of this
message, as soon as possible.

Invited speakers include:

Mitch Begelman, Geoff Bower, Dave Jauncey, Shri Kulkarni, Maura
McLaughlin, Rachel Osten, Sterl Phinney (tbc), Anatoly Spitkovsky,
Jill Tarter

Scientific Organising Committee:

Rob Fender (chair), Stephane Corbel, Bryan Gaensler, John Kirk, Joe
Lazio, Jean-Pierre Macquart, Sera Markoff, Dave Meier, Ralph Spencer,
Tasso Tzioumis

The conference website can be found at:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/Dynamic2007/

You may pre-register for the meeting at the above website (prefered)
or may do so by sending the form below to: Dynamic2007@atnf.csiro.au

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