Name: EPTA meeting, Paris - Jun 2026
Start: 2026-06-01T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-06-05T19:00:00+02:00
Location: APC

EPTA meeting, Paris - Jun 2026

from Monday, June 1, 2026 (9:00 AM) to Friday, June 5, 2026 (7:00 PM)

Monday, June 1, 2026
2:00 PM Shared session between EPTA and Entretiens meetings
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Introduction on the EPTA and the IPTA - Gilles THEUREAU (LPC2E, CNRS-Orléans and Nançay Radio Observatory, Paris Observatory)

2:20 PM The principle of Pulsar Timing Arrays - Mikel Falxa (LPC2E)

2:40 PM Studying the ionized ISM with pulsar timing - Pauline Noé (LPC2E) Francesco Iraci (APC, CNRS)

3:00 PM Q/A - Pause

3:10 PM Astrophysics of Massive Black Holes - Hippolyte Jean Hugo Quelquejay-Leclere (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

3:30 PM The intrinsic spin noise of MSPs - Aditya Parthasarathy (ASTRON)

3:50 PM The theoritical aspects of the intrinsic spin noise - Jérome Petri (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)

4:10 PM Q/A - Pause

4:20 PM The Gamma-ray PTA - Serena Valtolina

4:40 PM Updates from MeerKAT - Beatrice Moreschi (Milano Bicocca)

5:00 PM The PTAs in the SKA era - Antoine Petiteau (CEA/IRFU/DPhP)
Tuesday, June 2, 2026

9:00 AM DC & Timing session

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM DC & Timing session

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

2:00 PM Hands-on session and student projects

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Group updates
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Updates from Milano Bicocca group - Alberto Sesana

4:15 PM Updates from APC-Orléans group - Gilles THEUREAU (LPC2E, CNRS-Orléans and Nançay Radio Observatory, Paris Observatory)

4:30 PM Updates from MPIfR & Effelsberg - Thomas Abbott (Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy)

4:45 PM Updates from the SHAO PTA group - Siyuan Chen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

5:00 PM Updates from the ASTRON group - Aditya Parthasarathy (ASTRON)
6:30 PM COCKTAIL DINNER

6:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
9:00 AM Noise modelling session
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Probing turbulence in the interstellar medium with long-term dispersion and rotation measure variations of young pulsars - Selah Melfor

9:20 AM Investigating Interstellar Turbulence in HII Regions with LOFAR Pulsars - Francesco Iraci (APC, CNRS)

9:40 AM An Elegant FD Formulation for a More Civilized PTA Age - Sofia Sosa Fiscella (ASTRON)

10:00 AM Solar wind variations in DR2low - Mark Brionne (INAF-OA Cagliari)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Gravitational waves and interpretation session
11:00 AM - 12:55 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Continuous-wave candidate validation across PTAs - Bence Becsy (University of Birmingham)

11:20 AM Eccentric binaries in PTA data: parameter estimation and interplay with the gravitational wave background - Sara Manzini (APC - Université Paris Cité)

11:40 AM Probing Supermassive Black Hole Mergers with Pulsar Timing Arrays - Hippolyte Jean Hugo Quelquejay-Leclere (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

12:00 PM QuickGWecc: A fast Bayesian pipeline for searching continuous GWs from eccentric binaries in PTA data - Lankeswar Dey (Institute of Astrophysics, FORTH)

12:20 PM Ongoing search for memory effect in IPTA-DR3 - Adrien Cogez (CEA/IRFU/DPhP)
2:00 PM Hands-on session and student projects

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Contributed talks
4:00 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Updates for the Interpretation WG - Nataliya Porayko (MPIfR)

4:20 PM Inflationary interpretation of the gravitational-wave signal in the European Pulsar Timing Array DR2 data with constraints - Delphine Perrodin

4:40 PM Characterisation of Continuous Gravitational Waves with Deep Learning: Detection and Sky Localisation - Ludovica Carbone (University of Milano-Bicocca)

5:00 PM Towards multi-messenger observations of supermassive black hole binaries - Maria Charisi (IA-FORTH & Washington State University)

5:20 PM Impact of Dispersion Measure Noise Modeling on Gravitational-Wave Background - Danilo Zecca (Università del Salento)
Thursday, June 4, 2026
9:00 AM Contributed talks
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM Looking for non-gaussianity in PTA through the four-point correlator - Massimo Vaglio (SISSA)

9:20 AM Modeling the nHz gravitational wave background with t-process - Beatrice Eleonora Moreschi (University of Milano-Bicocca)

9:40 AM Possible imprints of a clustered Universe in astrophysical PTA GW data - Martin Pijnenburg

10:00 AM Downsampling PTA data - Mikel Falxa
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Contributed talks
11:00 AM - 12:50 PM
Contributions

11:00 AM Methods for GW searches and pulsar noise characterisation from gamma-ray photons - Serena Valtolina

11:20 AM Observation Strategy Study of Pulsar Timing Array - Yang Liu (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

11:40 AM Resolving signals with finite angular size in the GWB sky - Egor Ledenev (MSU SAI) Viacheslav Chernosov (MIPT)

12:00 PM The First search for gravitational waves with the DR2low dataset - Irene Ferranti (University of Milano-Bicocca)
2:00 PM Closed EPTA session : SC+EC

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM

3:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM

4:00 PM Closed EPTA session : EPTA DR3 & LEAP

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Friday, June 5, 2026

9:00 AM Hands-on session and student projects

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM

11:00 AM Hands-on session and student projects

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

2:00 PM Last discussions & End of conference

2:00 PM - 5:30 PM

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