A workshop on energetics and life cycle of radio galaxies

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From Monday 26 through Wednesday 28 of March, we had an extremely successful and fruitful workshop at ASTRON to discuss the recent progress in the exciting field of radio galaxies. Such radio sources emit so much energy that it affects the life of the host galaxy. The workshop covered results from observations at many different wavelengths, and from theory. A lot of time was dedicated to the discoveries that the new low-frequency facilities are now making possible.

The about fifty participants formed a very interesting mix, including many expert astronomers and leaders in the field of radio galaxies, but also many enthusiastic young students and postDocs attended. The programme gave the opportunity to everybody to have a lot of interaction during coffee breaks, lunches and over a drink!

Particularly nice was to see that, without having to do any extra effort, 22 of the 51 participants and speakers were female. The group photo (which shows this lively mix of attendees) was taken during an impromptu visit to the Dwingeloo telescope guided by Paul Boven and Michel Arts: thanks to them for making thispossible.

We now have all the presentations on-line, have a look at this web page if you are interested.