From: <Tony.Wong_at_email.protected>
Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 19:55:00 +1000 (EST)

Hi folks,

        We need to act soon on trying to secure speakers, both overseas
and local. For the local people, I can send out an email announcement
with the dates, location, and website. If there's anything to
add/subtract from the website:

http://www.atnf.CSIRO.AU/people/twong/atca/wkshp.html

please let me know by Friday. I'll also try to set up an online
registration form this week. We can also extend special "targeted"
invitations next week to people we would like to contribute talks (my list
is below).

        For the overseas people, I hope to get a clear indication of
funding availability this week, but in any case we should inquire about
whether they would consider coming. An updated list is given at the
bottom of this message. Based in part on discussions with Andrew, I would
suggest contacting them in this order:

1. David Neufeld (extragalactic; theory; molecular clouds)
2. Eugene Chiang (theory; young stellar objects)
3. David Frayer (high-redshift gas)
4. Jeremy Lim (evolved stars)
5. Tyler Bourke (molecular cloud structure)
6. Geoff Blake (astrochemistry)

----
7. Yi-nan Chin (molecular clouds in LMC)
8. Nagayoshi Ohashi (young stellar objects)
9. Eva Schinnerer (molecular gas in galaxies)
10. Geoff Bower (AGN, mm VLBI) - depending on whether mm VLBI will be
	feasible with ATCA (anybody know?)
----
11. Vincent Mannings (debris disks)
12. Kotaro Kohno (molecular gas in galaxies)
Basically, we can sound out the first 6 this week; if 4 or more decline
immediately, go on to #7-10, etc.  How does that sound?  Andrew, would you
like to draft the letter?
	Finally, I should add that I've informally contacted Cornelia
Lang, visiting ATNF and RSAA from U. Mass at that time, about her interest
in attending; I've not guaranteed her a speaking slot, though I think it
would be appropriate to offer a slot if she expressed interest.
	PLEASE let me know if there's anyone I've left off from the list
below that you feel strongly about inviting.
--Tony
Overview of Current System
--------------------------
Tony Wong (ATNF) - system parameters and comparison w/ other arrays
Baerbel Koribalski (ATNF) - first science results
Overview of Future Improvements
-------------------------------
Dave McConnell (ATNF) - Summary of future development
Bob Sault (ATNF) - phase correction system
Mike Kesteven (ATNF) - aperture efficiency?
Warwick Wilson (ATNF) - wideband correlator
Evolved Stars and SNRs
----------------------
Jeremy Lim (ASIAA Taiwan) - radio observations of stellar atmospheres
---> former ATNF student; has worked on Eta Carina; BIMA & SMA
Dick Manchester (ATNF) - High-freq observations of supernova remnants
Shuji Deguchi (NRO Japan) - SiO maser surveys and Galactic structure
---> Familiar with southern sky (observed at Mopra) & Galactic Centre;
     collaborates w/Ramesh B.; will be in Canberra for IAU 209 week before.
---> Unable to come (Ramesh)
Structure and Chemistry of Molecular Clouds
-------------------------------------------
Mark Wardle (U. Sydney) - Gas dynamics and B fields in molecular clouds
Cornelia Lang (UMass) - Relation bet. ionized and molecular gas in G.C.
---> visiting Australia around this time
Maria Hunt (UNSW) - Organic molecules in dense clouds
Tyler Bourke (CfA) - Molecular Cloud structure and Bok globules
---> former ATNF student; has expressed interest in ATCA mm observations
Sheng-Yuan Liu (Caltech) - observations of organic molecules in GMCs
---> Observing experience with BIMA & OVRO; student of Lew Snyder;
     expressed interest in ATCA at Star Formation Workshop in July.
Geoff Blake (Caltech) - chemistry of gas & dust in molecular clouds
---> OVRO experience; one of the recognised experts in the field.
Young Stellar Objects
---------------------
Jim Caswell (ATNF) - Observations of massive star formation
Vincent Minier (UNSW) - Methanol masers and hot molecular cores
Eugene Chiang (Berkeley) - Modeling of circumstellar disks
---> Rising star recently hired onto faculty; mm observations have direct
     bearing on his models
Nagayoshi Ohashi (ASIAA) - Protostars, protoplanetary disks, dense cores
---> Observing experience with NMA & BIMA; searches for infall
Vincent Mannings (SIRTF/Caltech) - Millimetre observations of dust disks
---> Observations at OVRO with A. Sargent
Galaxies: Molecular Lines
-------------------------
John Whiteoak (ATNF) - Molecular gas in the Magellanic Clouds
Steve Curran (UNSW) - Molecular line emission from Seyfert galaxies
Kotaro Kohno (NRO) - Dense Gas in Nearby Galaxies
---> Conducted HCN survey of 12 spirals using NMA
Eva Schinnerer (Caltech) - Molecular Gas and Starbursts in Seyfert Nuclei
---> gas kinematics; IRAM PdB observations
Yi-nan Chin (Tamkang U. Taiwan) - Molecular gas in the Magellanic Clouds
---> SEST observations with John Whiteoak
David Neufeld (JHU) - Circumnuclear masers in AGN; Molecular clouds
---> Theory and observations; young faculty; wide interests
Continuum Emission From AGN
---------------------------
Mike Dopita (RSAA) - Modeling AGN emission
Geoff Bicknell (RSAA) - Radio jets in active galaxies
Carole Jackson (RSAA) - Radio galaxy surveys
Mark Morris (UCLA) - Radio emission from the Galactic Centre
---> Recognised expert on the G.C. with previous research on
     molecular gas in galaxies and evolved stars as well.
Geoff Bower (Berkeley) - VLBI at millimetre wavelengths
---> Has observed Sgr A* and radio galaxies with BIMA, VLA, and CMVA
High-Redshift Gas and Cosmology
-------------------------------
Ravi Subrahmanyan (ATNF) - molecular absorption from DLA systems; CMB
David Frayer (SIRTF/Caltech) - Molecular gas in high-redshift submm sources
---> Has among the best observational data in this field.
Bill Holzapfel (Berkeley) - SZ effect in galaxy clusters
---> OVRO/BIMA observing experience; South Pole projects
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Tony Wong                                               twong_at_atnf.<!--nospam-->csiro.au
CSIRO Australia Telescope Nat'l Facility                TEL +61-2-9372-4399
http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/twong                   FAX +61-2-9372-4310
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