19 - 23 June | Port Douglas

IPTA SCIENCE MEETING SCHEDULE

TIME MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
(AEST) 19 June 20 June 21 June 22 June 23 June

Session 15: Scintillation and

Session 1: PTA Updates Session 5: Noise Modelling II Session 9: GW Searches Session 11: GW Astrophysics
Scattering
Chair: R. Shannon Chair: I. Nitu Chair: J. Simon Chair: A. Vecchio
Chair: M. Lam

20 min | Atharva Kulkarni 20 min | Ryo Kato

(Swinburne): Modelling and (Kumamoto/Osaka): Accuracy of 30 min | Subhajit Dandapat (TIFR):
20 min | Lydia Guertin (Haverford):
accounting for spectral decorrelation source location estimation for Quantitative PTA Posteriors
Multiwavelength Scintillation in the
in jitter noise gravitational waves with PTAs Comparisons & Characterising Burst
Profile of PSR J1744-1134

with Linear memory events with PTAs
15 min | Word of Welcome

20 min | Andrew Zic (CSIRO): 20 min | Aaron Johnson (Caltech):

20 min | Jacob Turner (WVU):
Characterising noise in MSP NANOGrav Software: Current Code 20 min | Gabriel Freedman (UWM):
20 min | George Hobbs (CSIRO): Scattering Delay Mitigation in High
observations with the PPTA and Future Directions Efficient and Scalable Gravitational
Overview of the PPTA Project Accuracy Pulsar Timing: Cyclic
9:00 - 10:30


Wave Searches with Gradient-Based
Spectroscopy Techniques
20 min | Francesco Iraci (INAF): 20 min | Bruce Allen (AEI Hannover): Monte Carlo Methods
20 min | Golam Shaifullah (Milan-

DM Variations: comparing recovering The Hellings and Downs correlation of

Bicocca): The EPTA Update 20 min | Avinash Kumar Paladi (Indian

techniques for PTAs an arbitrary set of pulsars 20 min | Malgorzata Curylo (Warsaw):

Institute of Science):


Modelling co-evolution of galaxies
30 min | Kuo Liu (MPIfR): Multi-band Extension of the
20 min | Matthew Miles (Swinburne): 20 min | Valentina Di Marco and massive black holes: implications
Update from the IPTA DC WG & EPTA Wideband Timing Technique
The MeerKAT PTA: Noise modelling (Monash): Ensuring robust detections for mergers and their signatures
DR2

and searches for common signals of nanohertz gravitational waves

20 min | Serena Valtolina (AEI
5 min | Yan Wang (Huazhong):
Multi-messenger observations of
20 min | Jacob Askew (Swinburne):
Interstellar Scintillation of the double
5 min | Alberto Vecchio Hannover): Hellings-Downs
pulsar using MeerKAT
(Birmingham): Implications of Pulsar correlation mean & variance for

double neutron stars in Galactic disk Timing Array Observations for LISA polarised ensembles of GW sources
with gravitational and radio waves detections of MBHBs

10:30 - 11:00 Morning Tea

Session 12: Diversity, Equity &

Session 2: Timing I Session 6: GWs and SMBHBs Session 16: Polarimetry
Session 10: Closed Discussion Inclusion
Chair: D. Reardon Chair: E. Thrane Chair: H. Hu
Chair: P. Baker

20 min | Thankful Cromartie (Cornell): 20 min | Joseph Simon (CU Boulder): 20 min | Jinchen Jiang (NAO/CAS):
The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Release Exploring Proxies for the SMBH Mass Progress of CPTA polarimetry
and Synergistic Science Results Function: Implications for PTAs

11:00 - 12:00

The future of the IPTA 60 min | Angela Cartwright (WVU): 20 min | Xueli Miao (NAO/CAS):
20 min | Ryan Shannon (Swinburne): 20 min | J. Andrew Casey-Clyde Panelists: M. Bailes, M. Geyer, IPTA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: Variability, polarimetry and timing
MeerKAT PTA status update (UConn): How Many Quasars Host N. Lewandowska, A. Possenti, Results, Analysis and Discussion of properties of single pulses from PSR

SMBHB Systems? K. Takahashi, S. Vigeland the Climate Survey J2222-0137 using FAST
20 min | Gabriella Agazie (UWM):

Wideband Pulsar Timing with CHIME 20 min | Jeremy Baier (OSU): Single- 20 min | Tao Liu (HK University):
and the NANOGrav 15yr Dataset source sensitivity curves in hasasia Pulsar Polarisation Arrays

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch

Session 3: Timing II and Noise Session 13: Pulse Shapes & Single Session 17: Spiders and Tests of
Session 7: Closed Session II
Modelling I Pulses Relativity
Chair: S. Vigeland
Chair: N. Lewandowska Chair: M. Geyer Chair: A. Kapur

20 min | Deborah Good

(UConn/Flatiron):
Friends in Code Places: PINT-Pal,
EDR3 and the creation of the first
PINT- based IPTA dataset
20 min | Agastya Kapur
(CSIRO/Macquarie):
The PPTA Third Data Release
20 min | Lingqi Meng (NAO/CAS):
The Relativistic Spin Precession of the
20 min | Rowina Nathan (Monash):
20 min | Siyuan Chen (Peking): Compact Double Neutron Star PSR
Improving pulsar-timing solutions
EPTA DR2 + InPTA DR1 GWB search J1946+2052
through dynamic pulse fitting

20 min | Paul Baker (Widener): 20 min | Huanchen Hu (MPIfR):
20 min | Bojun Wang (NAO/CAS):
13:30 - 15:00 5 min | Ezequiel Zubieta (IAR): 3P+ Comparisons
Progress of CPTA jitter analysis
New gravity tests with the Double
High-cadence pulsar monitoring from
Pulsar using the MeerKAT telescope

the Argentine Institute of Radio 20 min | Levi Schult (Vanderbilt):

20 min | Ross Jennings (WVU):

Astronomy 3P+ Comparisons using the factorised 20 min | Sangita Kumari (NCRA/TIFR):
The March 2021 shape change in PSR

likelihood method Decade long timing study of BW MSP
J1713+0747 as seen by NANOGrav
5 min | Matthew Bailes (Swinburne):
J1544+4937 and probing the

The Swinburne Pulsar Portal 20 min | Daniel Reardon (Swinburne): suitability of including BW MSPs in
20 min | Natalia Lewandowska (SUNY

Search for a stochastic GWB with the the PTA
Oswego):
20 min | Shashwat Sardesai (UWM): PPTA

Pulsar Timing using Single Pulses

Generalized Optimal Statistic for Free Afternoon 20 min | Jingbo Wang (Lishui Uni):
Multiple Cross Correlated Signals Study of spider pulsars with FAST

20 min | Bjorn Larsen (UConn):

IPTA EDR3 DM Noise Modelling:
Preliminary Results

15:00 - 15:30 Afternoon Tea Afternoon Tea

Session 14: Timing Noise and Slow

Session 4: Closed Session I Session 8: Closed Session III Session 18: PTA Improvements
Pulsars
Chair: R. Manchester Chair: D. Good Chair: T. Cromartie
Chair: A. Possenti

20 min | Stephen Taylor (Vanderbilt): 20 min | Hao Ding (Shanghai):

20 min | Iuliana Nitu (JBCA/UMan):
The NANOGrav 15-year Dataset: The Accelerating PTA Sensitivity
20 min | Kejia Lee (Peking Uni): Modelling (quasi-)periodic noise in
Stochastic GWB Enhancement with VLBI Astrometry
CPTA Status Update pulsar timing data

of MSPs
15:30 - 16:30
20 min | Jeffrey Hazboun (OSU):

20 min | Heng Xu (NAO/CAS): 20 min | Subham Singh (NCRA-TIFR):

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: 20 min | Shyam Sunder (NCRA/TIFR):
First data release of CPTA Efficient search of long-period pulsars
Detector Characterization and Noise GMRT discovered MSPs: possible

with the GMRT
Budget candidates for the PTA
20 min | Keitaro Takahashi

(Kumamoto Uni): 20 min | Matthew Kerr (NRL): Joint

20 min | Nicolas Caballero (Hellenic 20 min | Pratyasha Gitika
Recent Activities of InPTA Gamma-ray/Radio Analysis of Timing
OU): What simulations tell us about (Swinburne):
Noise and an Updated GWB Search
EPTA DR2 GW searches Optimising the MeerKAT PTA

ONLINE SESSION
Wednesday 21 June

Session 1 (Open - AEST 20:20 - 21:00 | UTC 10:20 - 11:00 | ET 06:20 - 07:00)
Chair: S. Desai

20 min | Ramesh Bhat (Curtain): The SMART pulsar survey: first discoveries and future processing plans

20 min | Ankita Ghosh (NCRA): Probing the orbit of MSP J1242-4712 discovered by the GHRSS survey

1 hour break

Session 2 (Closed - AEST 22:00 - 23:00 | UTC 12:00 - 13:00 | ET 08:00 - 09:00)
Chair: B. C. Joshi

20 min | Aditya Parthasarathy (MPIfR): Customised pulsar noise models for the second data release of the EPTA

20 min | Alberto Sesana (Milan Bicocca): Implications of the EPTA DR2 analysis

20 min | Aman Srivastava (IIT Hyderabad): Noise analysis in the InPTA Data Release 1

2 hour break

Session 3 (Closed - AEST 01:00 - 02:00 | UTC 15:00 - 16:00 | ET 11:00 - 12:00)
Chair: S. Buchner

20 min | Lankeswar Dey (WVU): Timing analysis of robust polarisation calibrated NANOGrav data

20 min | William Lamb (Vanderbilt): Stop Horsing Around: Faster GWB Spectral Characterisation for IPTA DR3

20 min | Abhimanyu Susobhanan (UMW): A pilot single-pulsar search for gravitational waves from supermassive eccentric binaries

30 min break

Session 4 (Closed - AEST 02:30 - 03:30 | UTC 16:30 - 17:30 | ET 12:30 - 13:30)
Chair: I. Stairs

20 min | Polina Petrov (Vanderbilt): Mapping the Host Galaxies of Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Sources

20 min | Nihan Pol (Vanderbilt): Search for anisotropy gravitational background in the NANOGrav 15 year dataset

20 min | Bence Becsy (OSU): Search for supermassive black hole binaries in the NANOGrav 15 year dataset