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Program

Mon, April 14
08:30 - 09:15   Registration  
09:15 - 09:20 Karl Menten: Welcome address  
09:20 - 09:30 Rainer Beck: The SKA project - a very brief review  
09:30 - 11:00 Filipe Abdalla: Cosmology & Dark Energy  
11:00 - 11:30   Coffee Break  
11:30 - 13:00 Andrea Ferrara: Epoch of Re-Ionization  
13:00 - 14:15   Lunch Break  
14:15 - 15:45 Andrea Merloni: First structures and black holes  
15:45 - 16:00   Coffee Break  
16:00 - 17:30   Workshop 1: Cosmology, structure formation and SKA
17:30 - 18:15     Contributed talks
Tue, April 15
08:30 - 09:50 Lucio Mayer: Galaxy formation and evolution in the CDM model  
09:50 - 11:10 Martin Zwaan: Galaxy evolution in the neutral gas  
11:10 - 11:25   Coffee Break  
11:25 - 12:45 Robert Laing: Synergy with ALMA  
12:45 - 14:00   Lunch Break  
14:00 - 15:30   Workshop 2: Galaxy evolution, ALMA and SKA
15:30 - 15:45   Coffee Break  
15:45 - 17:00     Contributed talks
Wed, April 16
09:00 - 10:15 Marcus Brueggen: Magnetism  
10:15 - 10:30   Coffee Break  
10:30 - 11:45 Ben Stappers: Pulsars  
11:45 - 13:00   Workshop 3: Magnetism, pulsars and SKA
13:00 - 14:00   Lunch Break  
14:00     Excursion to Effelsberg and Bad Münstereifel
Thu, April 17
09:00 - 10:30 Steve Rawlings: Simulations for the SKA  
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break  
10:45 - 12:15 Ralph Wijers: Transients and LOFAR  
12:15 - 13:30   Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:00 Philippe Zarka: Exoplanets  
15:00 - 15:15   Coffee Break  
15:15 - 16:45 Hubert Klahr: Protoplanets  
16:45 - 18:15   Workshop 4: Transients, exoplanets, protoplanets and SKA
19:30     Conference dinner
Fri, April 18
09:00 - 10:30 Marc Verheijen: APERTIF  
10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break  
10:45 - 12:15 Hans Kloeckner: SKA Pathfinders: ATA, ASKAP, MeerKAT, LWA  
12:15 - 13:30   Lunch Break  
13:30 - 15:00   Workshop 5: Synergy with LOFAR, APERTIF and SKA pathfinders
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break  
15:15 - 16:00     Conference summary
16:15 - 17:30 Michael Kramer: Fundamental Physics with pulsars: from now towards the Square Kilometre Array Opportunity to attend the colloquium which will
be held at the Physical Institute, Nussallee (10min walk from MPIfR)