October 2012 ATUC Science Meeting
Science Drivers for Parkes Receiver Development

29th October 2012 09:30 - 16:45

Marsfield Lecture Theatre, Marsfield

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9:30 - 9:35 Welcome John Dickey
Session 1: Spectral Line Topics
9:35 - 9:50 Psshhh aaahhh sssss push it: the case for high frequency line observations with Parkes Andrew Walsh (remote)
9:50 - 10:10 The Diffuse Interstellar Medium Alex Hill
10:10 - 10:25 Extragalactic HI surveys Martin Meyer
10:25 - 10:40 The Magellanic System: A Laboratory for Galaxy Interactions Tobias Westmeier
10:40 - 10:55 Milky Way structure with Parkes Jimi Green
10:55 - 11:10 Discussion of spectroscopic survey requirements and priorities
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11:10 - 11:30 Morning Tea
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Session 2: Pulsars and Transients
11:30 - 11:45 Pulsar Timing and the PTA gravitational waves search George Hobbs
11:45 - 12:00 Pulsar and Fast Transient Searching with the Parkes telescope Matthew Bailes
12:00 - 12:15 Transients with Parkes: What it's good at, and how to make it better Justin Bray
12:15 - 12:30 Discussion of broad band receiver and back end specification for high time resolution applications
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12:30 - 13:30 Lunch (provided)
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1:30 - 1:45 The role of Parkes in Southern Maser VLBI Simon Ellingsen
1:45 - 2:00 VLBI as a probe of AGN physics Stas Shabala
2:00 - 2:15 S/X receiver for Parkes astrometric VLBI program Oleg Titov
2:15 - 2:30 Future polarization observations with the Parkes Telescope Ettore Caretti
2:30 - 2:45 Discussion of VLBI and Polarization requirements
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2:45 - 3:00 Afternoon Tea
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3:00 - 3:15 Receivers and receiver development for the NRAO Green Bank Telescope F.J Lockman
3:15 - 4:00 Discussion of the international context of the Parkes telescope
4:00 - 4:15 An Ultra-Broadband Receiver on the Effelsberg Telescope Michael Kramer (remote)
4:15 - 4:45 Discussion of priorities for Parkes future receivers and operations
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4:45 End


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