The Australia Telescope National Facility presents the 2008 AstroFest, a two day symposium showcasing research carried out using the National Facility.

The AstroFest will be held on the days of 3rd and 4th of December 2008, at the ATNF headquarters in Marsfield.

Programme of Speakers

Wednesday 3rd December

10:00
Tea & Coffee
10:30
Bjorn Emonts
(ATNF)
"Large-scale cold gas and the evolution of radio galaxies"
10:50
Elaine Sadler
(USyd)
TBC
11:10
Patrick Weltevrede
(ATNF)
"The radio pulse profile characteristics of energetic pulsars"
11:30
Ingrid Stairs
(UBC, Canada)
"A new millisecond pulsar"
11:50
James Green
(ATNF)
"What's brewing in the 3-kpc arms"
12:10
Stephen Ng
(USyd)
"The magnetotail of PSR J1509-5850"
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Ilana Feain
(ATNF)
"Preliminary Results from the first full aperture synthesis image of Centaurus A"
13:50
Mike Keith
(ATNF)
"An awesome new survey for pulsars"
14:10
Jean-Pierre Macquart
(Curtin)
"An Extreme Scattering Structure towards PSR B0834+06"
14:30
James Urquart
(ATNF)
"A tail of two cores: triggered star formation within bright-rimmed clouds"
14:50
Afternoon Tea
15:30
Andrew Walsh
(JCU)
"First results from HOPS: The H2O Southern Galactic Plane Survey"
15:50
Dominic Schnitzeler
(ATNF)
"A 3D view of the Galactic ISM from rotation measure synthesis"
16:10
Neeraj Gupta
(ATNF)
"21cm absorbers at intermediate redshift"
16:30
Jayanne English
(Manitoba, Canada)
"Cloudia and her Sisters: The Vela Cloud in the NGC 3256 Group"

Thursday 4th December

10:00
Tea & Coffee
10:30
David Champion
(ATNF)
"Measuring the mass of Jupiter using pulsars"
10:50
Tara Murphy
(USyd)
"The Australia Telescope 20 GHz Survey: Exploring the High Frequency Radio Sky"
11:10
Emil Lenc
(ATNF)
"The Heart of a Nuclear Starburst Galaxy Revealed"
11:30
Max Voronkov
(ATNF)
TBC
11:50
Chris Wright
(ADFA)
"Resolving structure in the HD100546 disk - signatures of planet building?"
12:10
Richard Dodson
(UWA)
"LBA polarimetry, and the application to Methanol Masers"
12:30
Lunch
13:30
Tim Robishaw
(USyd)
"Let's Split! Using the Zeeman Effect to Probe B Fields Near and Far"
13:50
Angel Lopez-Sanchez
(ATNF)
"The peculiar behaviour of the neutral gas in Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxies"
14:10
Tobias Westmeier
(ATNF)
"Studying the gaseous environment of galaxies in emission and absorption"
14:30
Alyson Ford
(Swinburne)
"HI Clouds in the Galactic Disk-Halo Interface"
14:50
Ray Norris
(ATNF)
"Co-evolution of AGNs and star formation in ATLAS"

Travel and Accommodation

The AstroFest will be held in the lecture theatre at the CSIRO site in Marsfield, NSW. Details of how to get to the site via public transport are available from the ATNF visitors page. Although we cannot arrange accommodation for attendees, a list of local hotels and contact numbers is available.